There was expectation to know the position of the Valencian PP after its guest this weekend, the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, staged her break with Vox just over two months after the regional and municipal elections. The regional president of the popular, Carlos Mazón, did not want to assess Ayuso’s pre-election strategy yesterday – “it is not my responsibility; I have nothing to allege” – but he did advance his preference for “a solitary government, from the center, moderate and liberal policies”.
PP sources explained to this newspaper that it is possible to govern in a minority with parliamentary support for the investiture or the approval of budgets. In fact, it is the formula that has been made in the Community of Madrid (although without being able to approve the accounts, precisely, due to the rejection of Vox). All in all, in the popular headquarters, they are aware that the possibility of leaving the ultra-right out of the Government will depend on the strength that the polls give them. Thus, in Madrid it was possible due to Ayuso’s great electoral result, but in Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco had no choice but to integrate Vox into his executive and give him a vice presidency, with all that this has entailed in the following months. .
Along these lines, the message transmitted by the PP is that it is demoscopically close to achieving that lone government that would allow it to deploy its electoral program without the ties of Vox, but for this it needs majority support from the citizens who do not want the continuation of the Botànic, but neither that the ultra-right landed in the Generalitat Valenciana.
In this context, Mazón did not want to rule out any scenario. Thus, asked if he was betting on confronting the extreme right, as the Madrid leader seems to have decided, he assured that he does not like to “confront anyone” and recalled that in this legislature he came to agree on the budgets of the Alicante Provincial Council with Compromís . “The only thing I rule out is what the citizens don’t say.”
In this sense, the leader of the PP pointed out that “all the polls” say that “the PP is on the rise and is the favorite in the three provinces.” “Every day more people ask for change and it is perfectly clear that this change can only be led and carried out by the PP,” defended the popular candidate for the Presidency of the Generalitat.
And it is that in everything related to ideological positioning, Mazón maintains a prudent and calculated balance. Thus, it can be seen even in the visits of the national political leaders that began with the more focused profile of Moreno Bonilla, before Fallas; the parade of the top staff of the PP and the Feijóo team during the festivities; and that they will ignite the campaign with Ayuso, the opposite end of the Andalusian president.
