The best that can be said about the appearance of Carlos Mazon in the monographic plenary session of the Valencian Cortes, this Friday, is that he denied all those who considered him a political corpse, who remained in the position of president without knowing that he was.
This is what locals and foreigners thought, because the “full support” of his party’s leadership is much more doubtful when its leaders speak off the microphone. And because the social offensive of the left based on the slogan “Mazon resigns” It has become political, from the parliamentary desk.
But the president did not refuse, he announced the opposite: “I will lead the reconstruction”.
And he left the session, in this sense, strengthened. The national leadership of the PP arrived at the hearing feeling uneasy, but is now satisfied with what it saw: an exercise in self-criticisma sample of modesty and the hypothesis of its responsibility.
Now Genoa He will remain stony in his livelihood. Furthermore, the parliamentary support of Vox, his former government colleagues, was reaffirmed.
The opposition, for its part, demanded his immediate departure for take his head as the only one to blame. But divided into forms: Compromís, for example, requires elections now; and for the PSOE, it is enough for it to take a step back and another popular leader is invested…with your votes.
The socialist bet has two objectives.
The first, to ignore the insistent information from this newspaper and other newspapers which expose the incontestable responsibilities of the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar, dependent on Therese Ribera. That is to say from the government of Pedro Sanchez. And the second, take control of the Generalitat, forcing the PP to renounce its only parliamentary support, although sporadic and irregular: Vox.
Thus, we can say that Alberto Nuñez Feijóo gives a last chance to his Valencian baron, believing that if his overhaul of the government and the people elected to the new vice-presidency for reconstruction and the new Department of the Interior and Emergencies does an efficient job, the PP will be saved in the Valencian Community.
And with that, a key voting barn for the Galician politician to ever reach Moncloa.
“Show your face”
This is what pushes Génova to support Mazón. That, and bringing him down now, would make his autonomous government the only one responsible in the eyes of the government. a society “fed up, hurt and disappointed with the political class”as Feijóo recognizes.
Because even if doubts remain about presidentin Madrid, it is believed that, in justice, he failed in disaster management already arrived. But what responsibility for what happened It is about the “work never undertaken”, the “dogmatic and naturalist” policy of Ribera and the negligence of the CHJ on the day of 29-O.
The day will come when Genoa decides to press the nuclear button, if necessary. This is why the only statements that could be extracted this Friday from official sources were: “He showed his face and others did not,” from Sánchez and Ribera; and praise for Mazón’s response to demands to leave office: “If I am not capable of leading the recovery, I will assume my responsibility by not running for office“.
But the People’s Party neither wants nor can accept another political outcome. Mazón is “supported” because of the political catastrophe that followed the natural disaster “It’s already dragging Feijóo”but to bring him down now would prevail as alternative to Sánchez.
And there is such a strong bet against Ribera in Brussels because she is the responsible minister “and hid“, because the day in the car was entrance hall for his possible position at the European Commission, and because “objective data says that AEMET’s forecasts were exceeded by four” and “there was a information cutoff of the CHJ on the Poyo ravine in the two and a half hours which triggered the tragedy.
Mazón and his “oblivion”
Mazón pushed the Confederacy very hard, with data, evidence, examples and chronological development. And he managed to show it The mobile alert was not activated late, but for the wrong causethe Forata dam… under the responsibility of the CHJ.
But I know forget respond to the two key questions who are stalking him: Why did he lie about where he was at mealtime, with whom and for how long?
Keeping this lunch or not, really, wouldn’t have changed anything. For what has already been demonstrated data not issued by the Confederationthe sudden growth of channels and the change in weather forecasts. So why is the version changing?
And why didn’t you ask the declaration of national emergency from the first moment?
Feijóo suggested it to him. His fellow regional barons advised him. And he didn’t.
He also knew how to put political pressure on the government turned towards this necessarily immediate future, “reconstruction”.
He remembered his Valencia map sent to the Government a few days after the tragedy. A careful document, with 136 very well structured measureswhich cover the three phases (immediate, recovery and normalization) for citizens and all productive sectors. And above all, the “first request” of more than 31 billion euros.
“Don’t leave us alone in this dark hour”he cried, looking towards Madrid.
But, although he spent more than five minutes in the last part of his speech accepting “errors”, not rejecting “the responsibilities” that fall to him and almost thanks for “the review” legitimate and serve as an impulse, He was unable to specify how he and his government failed..
Indeed, he announced a restructuring of his government, even if He did not reveal who will leave or who will enter.
A surprising PSOE plan
And all this earned him the balm that Jose Maria Llanosthe spokesperson for Vox, focused his attacks mainly against the central government, which he accuses of “criminal negligence” and for having “omitted the duty of assistance” towards the Valencians during and after the passage of DANA.
However, he also described the management of the autonomous government as “incompetent”, referring directly to the advisors Nuria Montes And Salome Pradas. Although he did it rather to support his party’s theory on the “failure of the State of Autonomies”, which would have been demonstrated with the catastrophic lack of coordination of this October 29.
On the PSOE side, the “institutional” appearance of the Minister of Science was surprising, Diane Morantat the party headquarters in Valencia. Without power in the causes of the disaster or in the management of the recovery, and without even being a deputy in the Valencian Cortes, she presented herself as the new leader of the regional socialists.
Although it was even more surprising that his message was strong demand that the PP “remove Carlos Mazón” from the presidency of the Generalitatsomething absolutely impossible. This is neither legally feasible nor credible as a political attack. It was his way of claiming another person as head of the Advice and a new government “of a technical nature”, for which she He offered his party’s votes “without compensation”.
In the Valencian Chamber, the spokesperson for the PSPV, José Munozhe said: “He needs time” to leave, because if he has not been able to manage the crisis, he cannot “generate confidence for reconstruction”.
Although it was also surprising that the Socialist Party will date the elections in 2025assuming this would already be possible at that point, after the “reconstruction”.
Finally, the mediator of compromise, Joan Baldoviruled that Mazón should resign from office because he had already “resigned from his responsibilities” on October 29 when, in an emergency situation, he went “to a feast” and he joined CECOPI hours late: “He has abdicated his responsibility as president by refusing to protect our people. All he has to do is resign from his position.“, added Baldoví.
