PP and Vox joined forces yesterday in the control session with the president of the Generalitat of Les Corts Valencianes to give an image of unity. The head of the Consell, Carlos Mazón, boasted of having managed to create, with his government partners, “a space of stability” in which “what is essential and not what is accessory” is prioritized. Nobody hides that, on symbolic issues, PP and Vox disagree; a public dissent that allows them to maintain a certain distance and not inconvenience their electorate.
However, during his speech on the platform of the regional parliament, the popular leader wanted to highlight the “state perspective” that unites both parties. “No one is going to twist or bend us on that path of joint and mutual determination that the citizens of the Valencian Community are already beginning to notice and appreciate,” Mazón said.
The president wanted to contrast this image of stability with “the extraordinary weakness and dependence of the progressive socialist Government of Spain” – Thus, he pointed out that while the Valencian Community has approved its accounts for 2024 – “budget and stability are two sides of the same coin” -, the central government has had to give up presenting its own.
The statements made yesterday, in the corridors of Les Corts, by the Ombudsman of Compromís, Joan Baldoví, do not contribute to the stability of the Government of Spain, who indicated that in his formation the debate on support for the government “is always present.” The refusal of the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, to undertake the Tren de la Costa has caused yet another clash between Compromís and the socialist part of the Executive.
Continuing with his argument, Mazón regretted that the lack of General State Budgets (PGE) will cause Valencians to lose 1,793 million euros and that the province of Alicante will continue to lag behind in investments.
A message that the president wanted to place in the control session after Vox’s remote-controlled question. In his speech, the ombudsman of the party that shares the government with the PP, José María Llanos, also congratulated himself for having launched a legislature “of the alternative, of change, of working with rigor and transparency from minute one, putting Valencians at the center of policies”. And this, he commented, “without fear: no matter how much the left tries to launch its bands of agitation and tension into the streets.” Yesterday, both speeches went hand in hand.
Before the dialogue between the Government partners, the PSPV spokesperson in Les Corts, José Muñoz, tried to link the president of the Generalitat with the former president Eduardo Zaplana who today faces trial for an alleged plot of illicit commissions and money laundering. capitals that began with the privatization of the Valencian ITV. The socialist ombudsman criticized him for “changing the date of the control session so as not to coincide with the trial of his political godfather Eduardo Zaplana” and noted that “while Zaplana faces 19 years in prison for the alleged collection of illegal commissions, Mazón flee from the Valencian Community”.
The socialist president accused Mazón of “following the same modus operandi as Eduardo Zaplana: First, he discredits professionals; second, cut resources; third, accumulate defaults; and, finally, it ends up privatizing fundamental services.
