The acting president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Ximo Puig, has taken the floor in the investiture debate to offer his substitute, Carlos Mazón, up to five pacts on consensus that go beyond acronyms in matters such as equality, democratic quality, energy, State Well-being, culture and defense of the Valencian.
A glove that the PP candidate for the Presidency has picked up (with the nuance that he will promote “the Valencian if he is not Catalan”) and to which he has added a sixth for demanding a change in the regional financing system and resolving, from the scientific rigor, the problem of water. Puig has joined both.
The debate between the two, despite the clear differences in the model -in tax matters, for example- and the occasional squabble, has taken place in an atmosphere of respect and cordiality. Puig has indicated that when Mazón needs him he will have him by his side and the future president of the Generalitat has applauded the words and has thanked “the tone used”.
During his speech, Puig took the opportunity to take stock of his eight years at the helm of the Generalitat. “Today all the political, economic and social indicators are better: Valencian society has made progress in these 8 years”. In this line, he has reviewed the three pillars that have guided these last two legislatures: giving prestige to institutions, creating employment and invigorating the Valencian Welfare State. And he has finished his claim by pointing out that his government is leaving with “clean hands and face held high.”
But not everything has been pretty words. Puig has started his speech by demanding a joint fight against “macho terrorism”. In this sense, he has described the denialism of male violence as “indecent.” For this reason, he has indicated that the Generalitat “cannot be kidnapped by denialism” and has warned Mazón that, on this issue, the socialist parliamentary group “is not going to give the new Council a day’s grace.”
Thus, Puig has lamented that the pact between the PP and Vox pact already generates “uncertainty, division and fear” and has asked the popular candidate to rectify the pact signed with the extreme right to include the term gender violence. After finishing his two speeches, the socialist bench stood up to applaud the president of the Generalitat for eight years. His intervention has also been a kind of farewell, although Puig will not leave the act of deputy.
The assertions about gender violence have somewhat stressed the debate. Mazón has counterattacked with the Law of ‘only yes is yes’ and has asked Puig “not to instill fear”. Nor did the future president like that his political rival said that the legitimacy of the new government is one thing and dignity another, due to his pact with Vox. A statement that Mazón thought was premature. He, too, has not come to value too much the good data put forward by Puig during the podium, and has limited himself to pointing out that the balance of the Botànic’s management has already been made by the Valencians in the elections.
