“The emergency can justify mistakes, never shenanigans.” Carlos Mazón said this this morning during the control session at the Consell in reference to his desire for all contracts made by the Botànic during the pandemic to be investigated “down to the last cent.” “We will know what the contracting procedures were like, which companies were contracted and why, what control mechanisms were applied, what material was acquired, how much was actually used and how much was not and why it was not used,” he added. the president.
It was Mazón’s response to a question from Vox’s ombudsman, José María Llanos. Llanos had asked him about the so-called ‘Koldo case’, and the president has stated that he does not know if there is a “Valencian replica of the Koldo case and the case of Diana Morant’s number 2, José Luis Ábalos.” “I don’t know, but we are going to tell the truth to the Valencians because it is a political obligation and a matter of accounting rigor and absolute transparency,” he added. “Demand now means demand always, not when it interests some, of course.”
Mazón has stressed that Valencians “deserve to know what has been done, what is being done and what will be done with the taxes they pay down to the last euro cent.” “All these demands are unavoidable, non-negotiable and in any context, moment and field of public management. But if there were a field and a context that would deserve to intensify this demand, that is health. And that context would be that of a pandemic that “locked us all in at home and cost thousands of lives,” he remarked.
And he added that “if the urgency was confused with a check for an opaque management, all Valencians effectively have the right to know. If the procurement of material became a banquet only for cronies, we have the right to know,” he stated. For this reason, he has stressed that they have commissioned an audit that “will allow us to know every last detail of that inefficient and poorly responsible management” that “skyrocketed the debt of all Valencians.”
“If someone has obtained some type of dubious benefit, at the very least, we are going to know it, we have to know it, because it is one thing to put us all in debt and quite another to do so at the expense of enriching a few,” he remarked.
For this reason, it has insisted on investigating the contracting procedures, the companies that were hired, the control mechanisms, the material acquired, its use and whether it was stored “with impunity” and also why it was not used. “In short, we are going to know what was done with the money of all Valencians when all Valencians were giving a lesson in resistance and solidarity,” he remarked.
