One of the proposals that was on the table last Wednesday in parallel to the proposal to agree on a major Valencian agenda of demands before the Government of Pedro Sánchez, was that of “the opening, within Les Corts Valencianes, of the process to the pending renewal of the statutory bodies”. Despite the insistence of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, the opposition has no intention of negotiating these changes.
Up to six organizations have expired and have been awaiting renewal for months: the Consell Jurídic Consultiu, the Consell Valencià de Cultura, the Consell de Transparència, the Consell Rector of television, the Consell de Universities and the Sindicatura de Comptes. Its renewal was about to be closed at the end of the botanical legislature, but finally the PP departed from the consensus and pushed Ciudadanos towards its interests. Now, PSPV and Compromís are the ones who are in no hurry to undertake the changes.
Yesterday, the head of the Consell who, as he pointed out in his speech before Parliament, plans to insist “until hell freezes over”, once again “reached out” to the PSPV and Compromís to negotiate the renewal of the pending statutory bodies.
Mazón argued that he does not understand that the socialists are full of criticism of the blockade of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) in Spain and, in the Valencian Community, they block up to six control and inspection bodies of the Consell.
Despite this, it does not seem that the agreement will be feasible in a climate of such political tension. Sources from the PSPV point out to La Vanguardia that the renewal of the entities falls within a “package of global agreements” that, today, seems “impossible” to undertake with a PP, they recall, “which whitewashes the extreme right.” “.
The trustee of the PSPV in Les Corts, Rebeca Torró, already said it yesterday: “If you want to reach pacts and consensus, it is very easy for you: turn your back on the extreme right.” A premise that, as was also made clear during the parliamentary debate, is not going to happen, because, as Mazón pointed out, “you asked me that in order to speak with the Valencian Government, the Valencian Government has to dismantle itself and which is metaphysically impossible.” .
Nor do they see a minimum agreement on the statutory bodies in Compromís as feasible, whose vote, in principle, would be sufficient to unblock the renewal, a possibility that was speculated about at the beginning of the legislature, especially following the PP’s decision to provide the nationalists with a position on the Les Corts Table. However, a leader of the coalition told this newspaper that the unblocking of the statutory bodies is “very, very complicated.”
However, Mazón does not seem to be giving up and with gestures like yesterday’s withdrawal of the amendment to change the control bodies of Valencian television, he wants to win over Compromís, which had been very critical of this measure (which also bothered the PSPV). However, at the moment, these winks (also that of giving air to television assuming the VAT of the chain) do not seem enough to reach agreements in the near future.
