Yesterday, Pedro Sánchez took another step towards the investiture by making public his willingness to apply the amnesty to the Catalan independence leaders. I recommend that you read today Lola García, Enric Juliana and Manel Pérez, who offer interesting contributions on this very complex path towards the future progress agreement. Today we are closer than ever to achieving it, after a long joint work of the negotiators, but the only reality is that the goal has not yet been reached. For this reason, despite Sánchez’s transcendent statement yesterday, I would like to pause to analyze the autonomous Spain that the socialist leader will face if he ends up achieving his goal of investiture.
For the first time in the history of Spain, four autonomous communities as powerful as Galicia, Madrid, Andalusia and the Valencian Community are in the hands of the Popular Party. Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in Madrid, and Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, in Andalusia, achieved an absolute majority in the last elections and aspire to have a political future that goes beyond the community itself. In Galicia there will be elections next year and it remains to be seen if the current president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, revalidates the absolute majority that he inherited from his predecessor Alberto Núñez Feijóo. On the other hand, in the Valencian Community Carlos Mazón does not enjoy the majority of the other three and has had no alternative but to govern with Vox. This apparent weakness has hardly been noticed in the first hundred days of his government, where the Executive has shown signs of cohesion and having a very clear roadmap.
On the occasion of this hundred days at the head of the Government, we traveled to Valencia this week to meet him. In the interview that we publish today, you will discover a leader who does not beat around the bush and who dresses by the bootstraps. Mazón is not a territorial baron who has the same weight today as Ayuso or Moreno, but give him time. And in the same way that he did not wait for Feijóo to agree with Santiago Abascal, he will not have hesitation in confronting Ayuso if he is needed to defend a fairer financing system for his community. Mazón is going to make himself heard. May Sánchez take good note.
