Carlos Mazón wants to accelerate the political change in the Generalitat Valenciana a few days after 23-J. Tomorrow he will announce the new holders of the portfolios of a Valencian executive in which there will also be a vice president and two ministers of Vox, in Agriculture and Justice. He has even already contacted several people to expedite, too, the appointment of those who will be part of his closest team in the Presidency.
The new institutional architecture of the Generalitat will be different from the one designed by the Botànic: there will be fewer ministries and the powers will be grouped together. There will be, in addition to the vice presidency of former bullfighter Vicente Barrera, who will manage Culture, another vice presidency for Equality that will integrate all policies aimed at women. The current deputy Elena Bastidas, who has managed the opposition in this area to the policies of the left, sounds like the most likely. The first plenary session of the new Council, which will probably be held on Thursday, will appoint many members of the second echelon.
Carlos Mazón wants to start the machinery as soon as possible after being sworn in yesterday and taking office at the Palau de la Generalitat Valenciana. A process in which the protocols were complied with, with an integrating speech in the Corts Valencianes, asking for the complicity of the rest of the political forces and the Valencian civil society for this new stage, and being received by Ximo Puig at the gates of the Palau de la Generalitat . As in 2015, when Alberto Fabra received Ximo Puig at the gates of the Palau after the victory of the left, the Palau headquarters became a party yesterday, with the presence of prominent representatives of Valencian civil society. From the Corts to his new position, Mazón walked accompanied by, among others, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
This detail is important. Ayuso claimed on Sunday afternoon at a party event in Valencia the need to recover the “axis of prosperity” between Madrid and the Valencian Community. An old aspiration promoted by José María Aznar in 2004 to limit the projection of Catalonia and whose main actors were Francisco Camps and Esperanza Aguirre. Corruption and the 2008 congress, in which Camps supported Mariano Rajoy against Aguirre and Aznar, ended up finalizing a project that should also include Jaume Matas, then president of the Balearic Islands and who ended up convicted by the courts for corruption . Ayuso, yesterday, insisted that “a new stage begins in which the Community of Madrid and the Valencian Community are going to walk hand in hand”.
The new president of the Generalitat, for his part, placed special emphasis on relations with the Community of Madrid: “I believe that Madrid and the Valencian Community are one of the springboards with the greatest potential in all of Spain.” Under this premise, he bet that both autonomies “walk together, that they look at each other in the face, not out of the corner of their eyes.” And he announced that his will to “strengthen” relations with the rest of the autonomous communities for which he will contact “soon” with his representatives.
Upon his arrival at the Palau de la Generalitat, Carlos Mazón found three details of the outgoing president Ximo Puig on his office table. The first is a personal letter, in which he wishes the new tenant of the Palau de la Generalitat the best of luck. In this letter, the former president writes that “governance means” being loyal to Valencians and Valencians “. He also left her a map of the Antic Regne in Valencia and the book “The Weight of Responsibility”, by the British historian, an intellectual reference for European social democracy, Tony Judt.
On social networks, Ximo Puig wrote a direct message to Carlos Mazón: “I leave you two details on the table: an old map of this town with eight centuries of history and a great future ahead; and a fundamental book to be loyal to the Valencians”.
Carlos Mazón is in a hurry and nothing prevents him from accelerating a political change that was launched yesterday at the Palau de la Generalitat Valenciana
