Carlos Mazón gave a conference this afternoon at Foment with the aim, in his own words, of being “irresistibly attractive” for the Catalan business community. The president of the Valencian Community has therefore broken down the tax reductions, administrative streamlining, commitment to infrastructure… that he is implementing in his first months of government before an audience that demands these policies from the Government of the Generalitat.
With the title “Valencian Community, leading the Mediterranean”. Mazón has drawn a liberal political line of action, where he has highlighted his commitment to ending the “exhausting” fiscal pressure that existed, the implementation of the reduction of inheritance tax, health bonuses, the elimination of the tourist tax, tax relief, administrative simplification and, among other issues and on the horizon, the elimination of the wealth tax. Policies, he has said, that do not demonize the business community
In this context, the relationship with Catalonia has also been a fundamental axis in his conference, where he indicated that this relationship should not be based on “paternalism but on a respectful proximity where no one looks over his shoulder.” He implied that the relationship with President Pere Aragonès is not working well, and at the end of his talk he was upset that he did not officially communicate his last visit to the Community of Valencia. And, furthermore, he has reproached Aragonès for the fact that the ERC group in the Senate has positioned itself against the plan for the expansion of the Valencia airport.
The development of large infrastructures has been another of the guiding threads of the conference and Mazón has already warned, in relation to the positions opposed in Catalonia to the expansion of the El Prat airport, that if this is not carried out it will be necessary be done elsewhere. The Valencian president has asked for institutional reciprocity in defending the development of these infrastructures, whether in Catalonia or Valencia. In this sense, he has asked businessmen to maintain their pressure to continue developing the Mediterranean corridor.
Thanks to this business pressure, he noted, “sad and slow progress” has been achieved, and without it there would have been little. At the beginning of the speech, she commented on the “anomaly” represented by the slow rail connection between Barcelona and Valencia. And she has also asked that now that part of the works in Catalonia are underway, not to forget those that must be carried out in her territory.
Mazón’s presence in Foment arose from a request from PP councilor Daniel Sirera, who was chief of staff of the Valencian leader. The conference was presented by Josep Sánchez Llibre, president of Foment, and in its development Mazón has also stressed the need to make a practical policy, far from “ideologies and epics.” He has stressed on several occasions that he did not come to Barcelona to carry out a “hostile takeover”, but he has reiterated his efforts to seduce Catalan companies.
