Carlos Mazón is going to lift rugs. He warned about it this week, a serious issue. The President of the Generalitat, from the Palau de la Generalitat and on a lectern with the Valencian Generalitat label, accused the previous government, Ximo Puig’s Botanist, of, among other minutiae, making payments to ghost companies or not knowing who was paid within the Valencian public sector or how those payments were authorized. In the area of ??contracting, he gave the name and surname to a public emergency company that tried to ‘place’ 1,800 people close to him on the eve of May 28. According to Mazón, the Puig government contracted contracts worth 800 million euros. I don’t dare pass it on to pesetas. Neither my head nor my calculator are ready.
Given the above, and considering that the Botanist was tired of publicly expressing that his reason for being as a government was to rescue people, he expected a troop of former high-ranking officials announcing complaints, demanding rectifications and warning that accusations of such significance would end up in the courts. Nobody has left. Ximo Puig, former president of that government, has not said this is my mouth, striking.
The defense argument has come via party argument. PSPV and Compromís have done it through people who were never part of those executives. José Muñoz, spokesperson for the PSPV, uses the term ‘smokescreen’ without going any further. Joan Baldoví on behalf of Compromís fires at the remodeling of the public sector announced by Mazón and with which, due to duplicity with the Generalitat, six public companies will be left behind.
The great Jason Robards in the role of Ben Bradley, director of The Washington Post in Alan J. Pakula’s magnificent film ‘All the President’s Men’, coined a phrase for history when the White House began to deny its information about the Watergate case that ended up costing Richard Nixon his job “a denial that denies nothing.” In this case it cannot be applied because what happened with Muñoz and Baldoví is so poor that it does not even amount to denial, but in the face of such serious accusations, the silences this week are more than significant.
