While the bodies are still being sought by the biggest flood in the history of Valencia (with at least 215 dead), the left took to the streets this Saturday to politically campaign against the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazon. The activists, with Compromises, Podemos and independence groups in the lead, they demonstrated from the city’s Town Hall square passing through the most central streets of the city until reaching the Palace of the Generalitat.
This Saturday, November 9, was a day marked on the left-wing calendar in Valencia. After being excluded from the Municipal Council and the Government of the Valencian Community during the last elections and completely defenestrated by Pedro Sánchez at the national level, the far left and other pan-Catalanist groups They took advantage of the greatest tragedy in the city’s history to campaign politically against Carlos Mazonhead of the Valencian Generalitat. All this, with 215 confirmed deaths and a large number of missing people which could, in the coming days, increase the figures on this tragic list.
Around 40 social organizations and the left-wing unions orchestrated the demonstration this Saturday called at 6:00 p.m. under the slogan ” “Mazon resigns”. The demonstration left the Town Hall Square of Valencia and traveled through the streets of the center until reaching the Palau de la Generalitat.
The promoters of the demonstration against Carlos Mazón claimed that a large number of organizations were behind this demonstration, although this concentration had the support of Compromís, Podemos and pan-Catalanist entities showered with significant public subsidies, that is to say money from the Valencians (up to 2.2 million euros). million euros), during the Government of socialist Ximo Puig.
Among these groups is Cultural action of the Valencian Country (ACPV), chaired by lawyer Anna Oliver and which received more than 379,000 euros from the governments of Ximo Puig. Another promoting association was Valencian schoolwhat took 990,000 euros during the previous step with PSOE, Compromís and Podemos at the helm of the Generalitat Valenciana. Logically, after Carlos Mazón came to power, these allocations were drastically reduced.
Among the organizers and participants of this demonstration against Carlos Mazón in the streets of Valencia were also members of Arran-SEPC-COS-Endavantwhich are a series of entities that have in common their relationship with the Catalan independence movement CUP.
Mazón shows Ribera
Furthermore, the president of the Valencian Generalitat criticized on Saturday the third vice-president of the government and minister of Ecological transition and from the Demographic Challenge, the socialist Teresa Ribera, who “was not interested in the situation” of DANA and in the floods that devastated several villages in the province of Valencia “until 8 p.m. last Tuesday October 29” . “I would ask the minister: was the flood warning necessary? “Did the alert have to come?” Mazón denounced.
“Before 8 p.m., we had no reference from him, nor from any senior official. How can you say she was trying to contact me if I didn’t get a text from her before 8 p.m., maybe with a missed call, but never before 8 p.m.remarked the Valencian president, thus denying Minister Ribera.
Today, it is a politicized demonstration. The Catalan entities of the “Països Catalans” come to sow trouble and collapse the city of Valencia. They don’t care about the victims, only about politics.
– Popular Party of the Valencian Community (@ppcv) November 9, 2024
The PP of the Valencian Community rejected this Saturday’s protest, saying that “It’s a politicized demonstration”. “The Catalan entities of “Catalan countries” They come to sow trouble and collapse the city of Valencia. They don’t care about the victimsonly politics”, declared the popular on social networks.
