The ombudsmen of the PSPV and Compromís, José Muñoz and Joan Baldoví, have today demanded that President Carlos Mazón reinstate the Guillem Agulló Prize in the Corts Valencianes. The leader of the Valencian coalition has indicated that he urged the PP to propose its recovery “if it wants and really has the will to recover the prize” because there is “85% of the chamber” that is in favor, in reference to the PP, Compromís and PSPV. “The rest are romances,” he added.
The socialist has expressed himself in similar terms, who has assured that this has been “a turning point in the legislature” and that the extreme right “has given him a fight and has challenged the president of the Generalitat in something as fundamental as democratic values ??and the fight against hatred”: “Mazón has to decide, the pulse is clear.” Muñoz has paraphrased his parliamentary group partner Cristina Martínez when he told Mazón: “If you think like Vox, speak like Vox and vote like Vox, maybe you are Vox.”
The Guillem Agulló case was present during the debate at the Consell’s control session. The Minister of Finance and spokesperson for the Valencian executive, Ruth Merino, has defended that her government is looking for “meeting spaces” to find a solution to the political debate generated around the suppression in Les Corts of the Guillem Agulló award and where to “fight for the liberties and freedom of expression, without spectacles”.
In a reply to the president, the PSPV deputy José Chulvi has told the Consell that Mazón has made an “exercise of hypocrisy” by now endorsing that the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, which presides over the PP and where Vox has no representation, assumes the award that Les Corts, with the PP-Vox agreement, have decided to eliminate, and has asked the first vice president, Vicente Barrera, his opinion on this change in the president’s position.
“We are partners in the government but we are different parties and there are issues where we disagree,” replied Barrera, who assured that he “deeply regrets the death of a person in tragic events that should not have taken place,” he joins “in the pain of his family and friends” and regrets “the short sentence that the murderer served. However, he called it “regrettable” that “from the left, they appropriate the values ??that this award embodies, which belong to everyone” and that are not, in his opinion, those that “represent the radical extreme left.” .
For the Vox leader, “a disservice” is done to the memory “of any victim” when it is “groped” to obtain political and electoral gain, after which he has been applauded by the entire Consell bench, including Mazón, who also He shook his arm as a sign of support.
Subsequently, the president of Les Corts, Llanos Massó (Vox), appeared before the media to say that the consensus that the Guillem Agulló Prize created among the Les Corts groups in 2016 is not “immovable” and that the composition of The camera from then “has nothing to do” with the one that exists today.
He has said, “given the commotion that has been created these days” that the award “is not going to be awarded this year” because “it came from an institutional declaration from 2016” – when Vox was not in the chamber but Ciudadanos and Ciudadanos were. Podem– that “cannot condition in perpetuity the decisions made by any parliament.” “It seems that the policies and measures implemented by some are written in stone and are immovable. Well, they are not immovable,” she remarked.
“That institutional declaration fell apart in a Board of Trustees and that is simply what has been done. If from there you want to create commotion, want to politicize and ideologize the death of a person, we are obviously not responsible.” , has underlined.
Asked about the possibility of the PP supporting the recovery of this award, Massó pointed out that the ‘popular’ parliamentary group is “within its right to present the initiatives it considers appropriate” and has insisted that they are not against an award. to people fighting hate crimes. In fact, she has indicated that they will study the proposal that is made, although they have not yet received any.
“What we consider is that, first, the death of a person cannot be instrumentalized and we consider that with Guillem Agulló his death was being instrumentalized by the left and the separatists. And, of course, as I say, a statement institutional is not in perpetuity”, he stated
