The leader and president of the Valencian PP, Carlos Mazón, is willing to toughen his speech in the final stretch of the legislature. After a start in which the complicated health and economic situation encouraged the opposition to sit down and agree on major agreements such as the -Alcem-nos or the Plan Resistir- with the Consell, employers and unions, the popular ones are committed to distancing themselves and not collaborating in that image that the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, has been trying to carve out for a long time as a president of all Valencians.
All this, in a context in which the polls are still tied -the legislature began with that technical tie between the two blocks and they remain at similar figures- despite the fact that at the national level the progress of the PP is more than remarkable, if the CIS case.
Although it is true that the popular voted last week together with the Government of the Generalitat Valenciana the tax reform agreed within the Botànic, only a day later, Mazón himself warned that he had no prior intention of supporting the tax credit of Inheritance to the large companies that Puig defends if this compensation is not also extended to families.
Yesterday, Mazón summoned the media again to tell them that his party will not sign the alliance against inflation that the president of the Generalitat was going to announce hours later in a solemn act. A hardening of the speech that the popular president justified in the fact that the main opposition party cannot agree to sign “any type of document.”
The popular president, who on this occasion appeared alone -it is customary for him to do so accompanied by the general secretary and trustee in Les Corts, María José Catalá-, reiterated that he was not going to participate in a photo and “a staging that is not going to benefit the small economy or the people who need it”.
Asked if this attitude responds to a change in strategy and a toughening of the PP’s discourse, the also president of the Alicante Provincial Council pointed out that “the toughening is not from the PP, but from the living conditions of the citizens, and before That has to be coherent and proportional”. In a certain way, Mazón argued for the change in discourse and pointed out that given the seriousness of the situation that many families are experiencing, they must be more demanding with the Botànic and ask for more specificity in the measures. However, he lamented, “the Consell does not act like that and now it wants us to support an alliance that is a dead letter”.
This new profile of Mazón coincides with the publication of new surveys -Gesop and Sigma Dos- that, although they put the PP as the first political force in voting intentions, do not end up tipping the balance in favor of the right that -Citizens disappeared- would be formed by the PP and Vox.
And it is that unlike what happens in the national polls where the PP is already close to being able to govern, in the Valencian Community, after eight years in the opposition, the popular ones have not just taken off and the left-wing tripartite seems to resist with enough strength despite to the internal problems it has suffered.
Despite this, yesterday Mazón clung, precisely, to the idea that the PP seems to consolidate as the main electoral option of the Valencians and that it is once again the first force in the three provinces, becoming “the only possible and viable alternative.” And, because of that, he understands that his training is advancing.
A look shared by many of the deputies in the PP who do point to a change of cycle without relying too much on polls. Of course, there are others who admit that they have not finished the auction, that “there is less and less time” and that “everything will be decided by a handful of votes.”
In another order of things, in his appearance, Mazón avoided commenting on the important demonstration for public health that toured the streets of Madrid this Sunday. He pointed out that he does not know in detail the situation in the region governed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso and preferred to focus on the health situation in the Valencian Community which, in his opinion, “is leaking from all sides.”
Mazón lamented the absence of doctors in the Samus, the few nursing positions and the delay in primary care appointments as well as the high waiting lists and noted that there are “casseroles in all health areas”, while asking for more doctors and more incentives for doctors.
