The mayoress of Valencia, María José Catalá, has been emphatic this morning: let no one have the slightest doubt that I am going to combat the scourge of gender-based violence emphatically”. She said it in the first interview she has given and that It was developed in a meeting with the director of Cadena SER in the Valencian Community, Bernardo Guzmán, and he added that his forcefulness will also be “that of the entire PP and that of the Generalitat Valenciana, which Carlos Mazón will soon preside over.”
“No lessons,” added the mayor, who has specified that they not be given to her or her party. Along these lines, she has highlighted that she knows “what women suffer and struggle to achieve their professional goals” and that she knows “also the reality of gender violence from the field of management and how it has to be combated”. . “I have a mother, a sister and a two-year-old daughter. To think that I am tolerant of gender violence is absurd,” she assured when asked about this matter.
The new municipal manager, who has insisted on her status as the mother of a two-year-old girl, has pointed out that “only the feeling of maternal protection makes us reject and fight all kinds of violence against women.” “This is not a joke neither for me nor in my party”, she has specified her.
María José Catalá stated that the ‘popular’ have “always rejected violence against women” and stated that “the greatest advances that have occurred” in Spain “in the fight against violence against women have been fostered by the PP”.
“The greatest political consensus that has been reached in this country against this social scourge has been adopted by the big parties: my party and the PSOE. The big setbacks that have occurred recently have been due to laws that have been issued by the left” as “the law of the Only yes is yes, for example”, he has raised.
The mayoress of Valencia has considered that this has been “the most harmful law of all democracy for women” and has highlighted that “the PP has not made it nor has it been maintained by a president of the PP government, with legal consequences”. that it has had “during the time it has been in force”.
The mayoress has stressed that she wants to govern in a minority and has announced that she will meet with all the political groups of the corporation to find out their disposition. “I am aware that I need 17 votes in plenary because the City Council needs stability. I already have my government, my 13 councilors, and from there I will see what political scenario each group is on. I have supported Compromís in matters related to the covid or as green capital in 2024 and my rings have not fallen”.
Catalá has been convinced of mobilizing the remaining 300 million euros from the City Council to expedite urban improvements and investments. “Money must circulate”, he pointed out, and he has criticized the previous left-wing government for having stopped investing 800 million euros in recent years which, according to what he has said, have gone to reduce the municipal debt. She has also announced that the first thing she will do will be to unify activity and construction licenses to expedite municipal management and she will reinforce the staff in the Padrón, license authorization and citizen security departments.
Regarding mobility policies, he has criticized the “forms” with which measures were implemented in the city and has announced that the bike lanes will be reviewed on those large avenues where the technicians do not consider them safe. Likewise, he has defended the northern expansion of the port of Valencia. “There is no need to generate a debate between the port and the city,” he declared while showing his commitment to the regression of urban beaches in the south or the impact on the Albufera natural park.
