Two weeks ago it was a suspicion when he did not appear, but yesterday it was confirmed: Ximo Puig will not be present in the control sessions of the Valencian government and its president, Carlos Mazón, in the plenary sessions of the Corts Valencianes. His chair will be empty. They say that, sometimes, absences are more intense and significant than presences, such as when empty chairs are left in the electoral debates of those candidates who refuse to participate.
This is how Ximo Puig’s seat will be empty on Thursdays in the plenary session of Les Corts. In the one next to it is the socialist trustee, Rebeca Torró, who is and will be responsible for carrying all the weight on the only occasion in which the Valencian president can be directly questioned in Corts. There are socialist deputies who see it well, others who believe that the presence of Ximo Puig, deputy, senator, president of the PSPV parliamentary group and general secretary of the Valencian socialist federation, could give more importance to the moment, and more support for the action. of Torró. They are opinions.
In the first control session of the legislature there was some personal combat between Rebeca Torró and Carlos Mazón, and this was observed by journalists. The president reminded him yesterday that in that first session he said “several insults” to him. Yesterday the tone worsened, a lot. The socialist trustee accused him of being “sexist” for winking at her on that first occasion. A gesture, she accused, of “inappropriate, improper, unworthy” and a “lack of respect.” The socialist trustee said all this yesterday during her speaking session.
Because Rebeca Torró announced that she will not “tolerate any lack of respect or any sexist attitude,” she criticized “the condescension” with which Mazón addresses women with a position of responsibility, which demonstrates a “poor moral character.” High-profile accusations that were applauded by the socialist bench and that generated “indignation” among the PP deputies, according to comments in the hallways.
There was even more. “In everyday machismo, in micro-machismo, you are a repeat offender, because not a journalist has to put up with being called a bonica in the exercise of her duties, nor does the opposition spokesperson have to put up with someone winking at her at headquarters.” parliamentary”. The distance between Mazón and Torró is much more than political, it is personal; which predicts a legislature of harsh contrasts between the PP and the PSPV in Les Corts.
The session served so that Carlos Mazón could make a positive assessment of his management at the head of the Generalitat in his first 100 days of government. The elimination of taxes, the reduction of political spending or the expansion of the budgetary coverage of the Valencian Inclusion Income are some of the achievements that he highlighted, as well as the agreement for the reversion to the public system of the health departments of Manises and Denia , “agreed upon with the company.”
Rebeca Torró reproached that with Mazón “and the extreme right, the Comunitat has suffered the greatest setback and the shadow of corruption, cultural censorship and the breakdown of coexistence has returned.” “”I understand that every day that passes is a loss for you, it shows,” Mazón replied. The trustee accused the Consell of destroying in three months “the Valencian reputation that cost so much to build in 8 years and said that, while Mazón signs “pacts of shame, Pedro Sánchez achieves progressive agreements that respond to the real problems of Valencians.”
For his part, the Ombudsman of Compromís, Joan Baldoví, stated that Consell has “the best incompetents” and “the best NEETs: they neither govern nor work.” The president insisted that he has the Government of “the best” and “all you have to do is look at” the CVs of his councilors and compare them with those of the Botànic, while he considered it “a shame” that in the pact between PSOE and Sumar to a possible investiture has “forgotten” the water.
But between Mazón and Baldoví there was a certain understanding when the Ombudsman of Compromís made some proposals on social matters that the Valencian president was “willing to study.”