The Botanic is already history. With the premiere of the XI legislature, the Government of PSPV, Compromís and Unides Podem has a few weeks left and the unity of action of the opposition parties will not be maintained. The left began these four years facing each other and as electoral rivals. A situation that, surely, 23-J still fractures more.
The future president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has managed to widen that crack that was already glimpsed in the second botanical legislature and with his movement to cede 18 deputies to Compromís to snatch second place from the PSPV in the Les Corts Table, he has opened the box of thunder among the still acting government partners.
As the votes for the Compromís candidate to be on the Mesa de Les Corts, Maria Josep Amigó, grew, the faces of the socialists were a poem, because they did not understand where so much support came from. In total 32, those necessary to defeat the PSPV candidate for the second secretary of the Mesa de Les Corts. The socialists were astonished and a resigned Josefina Bueno applauded despite being defeated.
Although in the nationalist formation they refused to talk about a pact for the transfer of votes, the truth is that the conversations between Carlos Mazón and Vicent Marzà existed. The future president confessed to journalists that the 18 votes came “exclusively” from his bench. Marzà insisted that there had been nothing in return
This agreement angered the Socialists, who regretted that the new legislature began with Compromís agreeing with the PP. And the leader and still Minister Arcadi Spain pointed out: “It is clear that the only alternative to PP-Vox is the PSPV.” Compromís had been making this same accusation of agreeing with the PP for weeks. The nationalists sold that the socialists had agreed with the new conservative majority to leave them out of the Table.
This is the climate that was breathed yesterday in the corridors of Parliament (and even more exaggeratedly in the networks): reproaches between the partners instead of making a common front against the arrival of Vox to the Presidency of the Generalitat.
The play turned out well for Mazón. On the one hand, he confronted his rivals and diverted the focus from his pact with the extreme right (the Llanos Massó Presidency is the first step in the great PP-Vox agreement in the Valencian Community). Likewise, the leader of the PP managed to blur this agreement and argue that he is committed to “plurality.” “We said it from the beginning and we stand by it now, we don’t like sanitary cordons, much less at the referees’ table,” defended the popular leader.
“We have made an effort of plurality and with the conviction that all the parties had to be represented, it was not like that in the previous legislature and this time we did have the numbers,” he said.
A circumstance that allows him to open the door to dialogue with all groups, something that he has already exercised in his time as president of the Alicante Provincial Council and that he defended the day his government agreement with Vox was announced. However, it will not be easy for him since in Compromís they wanted to make it clear that those votes to support their candidate in the Table could be expensive because they are going to exercise the “maximum opposition” to the new government.
A space where they will compete with the PSPV which, reinforced at the polls although without institutional power, will try to maintain leadership in the Valencian opposition for the next four years.
