Compromís confirmed this Monday its intention to present a motion of censure against the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, for his management of the catastrophic DANA which left more than two hundred dead in the province of Valencia.
The proposal must be registered by at least one fifth of the deputies of the Valencian Parliament. The party’s fifteen seats – out of a total of 99 – will not be enough for this, which is why it sought the support of the socialists – with 31 seats in the House – who are committed to studying this political movement.
Regardless, the motion would also need thirteen votes from Vox to reach the absolute majority required by the regulations of the Cortes, before the forty deputies of the PP.
“Even if it does not bear fruit, for dignity and decency it is absolutely necessary to present it,” said Compromís mediator Joan Baldoví, who insisted that the regional Parliament must debate for to know if Mazón “is the person who should be in charge” of the Generalitat in the coming months. “On Friday, he did not answer two simple questions: where he was and why he sent the alert when many people were already up to their necks in water,” he added.
During this appearance of the head of the Regional Executive in the Chamber, the PSPV-PSOE offered its votes to the PP to dismiss Carlos Mazón and elect a new “technical” president for reconstruction who would call early elections in 2025.
This Monday, the parliamentary spokesperson for the Socialists, José Muñoz, announced that he would demand the bill for “alleged food” that the president met on October 29, the day of the tragedy, the journalist Maribel Vilaplana to offer her the direction of À Punt, which she refused. A meeting which took place while the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) was already in a meeting and the Military Emergency Unit was trying to access Utiel.
“At first we were told it was because he worked on the budgets with those closest to him. Then they told us it was a private lunch. Then they told us it was a working lunch. The fourth version was that it was a snack bar near the Palau. And the fifth was a long five-hour lunch with a journalist to entrust him with the management of Valencian public television and control it. We don’t know if there is a sixth version, but the context concerns us,” Muñoz said.
“If it is a working meal” paid by the Generalitat, it should be published on the transparency portalhasMuñoz pointed out. “If the PP or Mazón alludes to a confidentiality issue, we will go to court,” he added. “If politics and life in general have taught us anything, it is that the truth is always known,” warned the socialist spokesperson, while defending that “citizens deserve to know why their president was not not where it should be” on the most important day. for the Valencians.”
“I am surprised that the electoral calculation is there”
Questioned this Monday by journalists on the draft motion of censure of Compromís, the vice-president and new spokesperson of the Generalitat, Susana Camarero, stressed that certain groups “should sink deeper into the mud and talk to the mayors and those concerned” and ““not to be in an electoral tactic”. “I am surprised that there are parties that are in the electoral calculation while there are neighbors who are still removing mud from their garages, worried about returning to normal,” he lamented.
Regarding the doubts that remain about the food of Carlos Mazón on the day of DANA and whether they will show the bill of this meeting, Camarero insisted that “more than ten days ago” that explanations were given and that the president “assumed his responsibilities and was located”.
