The PSPV mediator in Les Corts, José Muñoz, announced that his party will claim to have access to the invoice for the “alleged meal” of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, last October 29, the day the DANA was unleashed and devastated several municipalities in the province of Valencia, as he assured there was “five different versions” to explain “why” Mazón was not at the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (CECOPI) this afternoon.
“First they told us it was because he was working on the budgets with his closest entourage. Then they told us it was a private lunch. Then they told us it It was a working lunch. The fourth version was that it was a private lunch near the Palau. And the fifth was already a long meal, a long meal, lasting five hours, with a journalist for him. give the address of Valencian public television for the control. We don’t know if there is a sixth version, but the context concerns us“Muñoz assured.
This was stated in statements to the media by Les Corts, in reference to the food that Mazón shared that day with the journalist Maribel Vilaplana to offer her the address of À Punta proposal that she rejected, as reported a few days later by the Presidency of the Generalitat.
Muñoz remarked that “The problem is not so much where Mazón ate or who he ate with.“, but rather that “he was not where he should be.” “The autonomous state has not failed, the Spanish government has not failed: the ‘president’ of the Generalitat has failed. And he is responsible in the first person,” he reiterated, demanding that “the truth comes out” for “democratic hygiene.”
Accuses the PP of having “adapted the disinformation manual”
In this sense, he accused the PP of having “adapted the disinformation manual” It has always been a tragedy in Spain” because “it is the same PP who manipulated the information in the 11-M or in the Metrovalencia accident”. But he stressed that “the difference is that now the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation (CHJ) can be defended, to which media communications are very attentive and that there is in Spain a general feeling of wanting to know the truth.
“I already told Carlos Mazón thatThink carefully about whether you should already provide a sixth version to this absence from the command post on the day of the emergency, because if politics and life in general have taught us anything, it is that the truth is always known”, launched the socialist, who defended that it was “essential” that he presented “this bill” because “citizens deserve to know why their president was not where he should be on the most important day for Valencians”.
Regarding how they will ask for the bill, he indicated that “if it’s a work meal” The Generalitat should have paid for this and be published on its transparency portal “without anyone asking”. “Mazón has the obligation to present the invoice and, sincerely, I believe that the first beneficiary of the presentation of this invoice would be him”, he added, warning: “If the PP or Mazón alludes to confidentiality issues, we will go to court.” .
They insist on a technical government
The socialist mediator also insisted on the proposal launched by the leader of the PSPV and Minister of Science, Diana Morant, that the PP appoint a “president” and a “technical” government to replace that of Mazón to face the reconstruction after DANA, considering Mazón is “disqualified” from leading this process: “From a moral point of view, he no longer has the authority nor the capacity to lead the reconstruction.”
As he defended, his “sincere and good faith” proposal aims to “unblock the situation” without leading to electoral progress or the “pure and simple resignation of Mazón”. “It is time to remove the mud and not install the ballot boxes,” he said, adding that the resignation of Mazón for a replacement “supported by the extreme right” would not be the right either. solution.
He therefore stressed that the first thing to do is for the PP to dismiss Mazón and appoint a “president” “with a recognized prestige profile” and a Transition Council “of experts in the matter” to, from then on, surrender in the elections. in 2025.
After reiterating that the PSPV “would offer its votes for this dismissal and the formation of the transitional government”, he stressed that he did not want to occupy “any seat” within this Council, but only “to overcome the institutional crisis caused by a “president”, who today constitutes more of an obstacle than any help in the future. “Never in the history of the Valencian Community have citizens had such absolute distrust of the institutions,” he said.
FEIJÓO, “HIDDEN”
In addition, he explained that his offer is addressed to the deputies of the PP in Les Corts and “in particular” to the leader of the party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that “he must answer.” He accused the leader of the “popular” party of “hiding” since the PSPV made this proposal and warned that “Mazón is also a problem for the PP and for Feijóo.”
Regarding who should be the technical “president”, Muñoz indicated that “someone better than Mazón”, that the PP must answer first his proposal and that Feijóo has a golden “opportunity” to do so this Monday after the meeting of the party’s board of directors in the presence of the PP mediator in Les Corts, Juanfran Pérez Llorca.
Asked about the restructuring of the Consell – for the moment we only know that the vice-president, Susana Camarero, will be the new spokesperson, that there will be a new vice-presidency for reconstruction and an emergency service – he declared that any change would be “insufficient“as long as Mazón continues.
At this point, the PSPV Ombudsman referred to the information published by “elDiario.es” according to which Mazón had granted by hand one of the first emergency contracts to be signed in which his chief of staff, José Manuel Cuenca, worked. “We are joining in very dangerous derivatives; it is not only the incapacity, incompetence and insolvency of Mazón during DANA, but darkness begins to hang over the awarding of contracts “It’s an untenable situation,” he denounced.
