The president of the Valencian Community, Carlos Mazón, believes that the speech given minutes before in the Senate by the Catalan president, Pere Aragonés, “is reliable proof of the falsity of the statement of reasons” of the Amnesty Law that is being debated today the Upper House. For Mazón, “there is no better example that the page has not been turned, that dialogue is not desired and that reconciliation is an empty word.”
The head of the Valencian Consell, who has intervened after the president of the Region of Murcia, has assured that “the real reason” why the Law was agreed “does not appear and those that do, have been shown to be not real.” “. Mazón has also criticized the “tone of mockery, contempt, the look over the shoulder and a position of intolerable superiority” that, in his opinion, “Catalan separatism” adopts.
Mazón believes that Aragonés’ proposal also contains “a vocation for expansion towards other communities, such as the Valencian Community or the Balearic Islands, which we are not going to consent to,” he said: “Those dreams of the Catalan countries, which is the following, nor has it existed, nor does it exist, nor will it exist; I am the one who will not tolerate even one more contempt for the Comunitat Valenciana by Catalan separatism, ever.”
After criticizing the successive changes in position that the Sánchez Government has been making over the last few months, Mazón has asked himself “but what negotiation is that in which only one party gives in? But what dialogue can there be between one who dictates and another who is only there to take note and continue in the armchair? But what reconciliation is that in which the willingness to repeat the breakup is exhibited as a merit?”
Finally, the Valencian president has expressed his conviction that “all this will happen because Spain, in its immense plurality, the one that we all represent here today, is an advanced democracy and that is the only thing it wants to be. A great nation in which we fit all”. He considers, on the other hand, that the Amnesty Law “endangers” our autonomous model, “which we do not renounce”: “They are not disputed territories. They are citizens. Free and equal. Our compatriots whose problems we feel are our own.”
