Carlos Mazón has announced this morning, in his investiture speech, that he will elevate the Equality area to the rank of Vice-Presidency of the Valencian executive if a new president is elected this afternoon with the votes of the Vox deputies. This area will be controlled by the PP. In a speech without nods to the extreme right, he has warned that he “wanted to make a special mention of one of the main scourges of society, sexist violence.”
In this sense, he has indicated that “in our community we have to repudiate any type of violence that occurs in any workplace, sexist, intra-family, gender or sexual identity, racial and in any of its forms.” In a speech in which he has combined Valencian and Spanish, the PP candidate has rejected the fact that “nobody can feel threatened by choosing who they love or by being born where they were born”.
In his speech, Mazon announced a Law on Identity Signs in which, among other measures, aid or subsidies to those entities that “want to impose the Catalan Countries on us” will be eliminated. In addition, he has announced, in terms of Education, that he wants parents “to be able to choose the center and the language” in which they want their children to be educated. And he has shown his determination to “get ideology out of the classroom.”
At the beginning of his speech, he announced his desire to “govern for all” and offered “an outstretched hand” to all political groups to “reach agreements”. He has thanked the government pact with Vox and criticizes that “it was not possible” for the PSPV to abstain in order to govern alone. Carlos Mazón has offered as a political program the basic lines already known during the campaign without it having come to fruition today. In health matters, he has promised to reduce waiting lists and strengthen primary care. In this area, he has spoken of eliminating the “linguistic requirement” in Health, although the truth is that this did not exist for health workers.
In terms of taxes, he has confirmed his willingness to lower the personal income tax tranche for “everyone, but especially for medium and low incomes”, and the elimination of the tourist tax. In addition, he will eliminate the inheritance and gift tax “so that we never pay twice for the effort and sacrifice of a lifetime”
Pact with Vox
As a balance of how he has gotten here, Mazón recalled that on the same night of 28M he announced a round of contacts with all the groups with representation, from highest to lowest and not “on a whim” or personal preference. He has said that he first addressed the acting ‘president’, the socialist Ximo Puig, and then the rest of the parties. “Although I regretted some absence, that fact did not motivate mine,” he added, and has defended that he proposed to everyone “a serious investiture for a stable government.”
As a result of this round, he has highlighted that a coalition government was agreed with Vox. “My most sincere thanks go ahead to the 13 representatives of these Cortes from the Vox group,” he stated, to emphasize that “any agreement with the PSOE was not possible, neither for the investiture nor for the maximum plurality of the Mesa de Les courteous”.
On the other hand, he has highlighted that he did manage to agree with Compromís on the distribution of the positions in the Mesa de Les Corts. He has also highlighted the fact that he met with Puig to “send a message of stability, security and responsibility” to the business investments that are “at stake” in the Community.
At the same time, he explained that “in a discreet, not secret, and effective way, the work meetings with the ministries are taking place for an exemplary, orderly and solvent transfer”, something in which he has thanked Puig for “predisposition”.
