Carlos Mazon claimed this October 9 he Valencian Community Dayequitable financing: “What belongs to everyone cannot be managed by a few.. In the management of Spanish wealth and its equitable distribution, there is no room for privileges, hoaxes or blackmail,” he said, clearly referring to the single financing that the government of Pedro Sánchez and the separatists defend for Catalonia.
The president of the Generalitat Valenciana declared this in the institutional actwhere the President of the Senate Pedro Rollán and, among others, a large group of representatives of the Spanish government gathered. Specifically, the Minister of Universities Diana Morant, the Secretaries of State Arcadi España and Rebeca Torró and the government delegate in this Community Pilar Bernabé.
In this act, Carlos Mazón marked his distances with Catalonia, marking the profile of the Valencian Community, he demanded the recognition of this autonomy as a historical nationality: “We are not a second-rate region that owes allegiance to each other“. And he valued self-government “which serves to progress” in terms of rights, duties and necessary policies. He also demanded fair financing for the Valencian Community. This whole message is summed up in one of his sentences: “No one will make the Valencian people lower their heads“.
It was Carlos Mazón’s responsibility to close this event. The Valencian president began his speech by adding to the pain of the families of the injured and killed “the terrorist attacks that shook Israel a few days ago“. And also to “condemn the unreason of all fanaticism”. And also to emphasize that “a people like Ukraine suffers and fights against Russian expansionism”.
Already in the key October 9explained that it is a day “marked by the demand for values such as freedom, solidarity and peace.” And, from there, he entered into the subject, also claiming the singularity and characteristics of the Valencian Community, but with an allusion clearly referring to the independence movement: “The Valencian Community is a bridge and not a wallin which our signs of identity are exposed as examples of love for our own and not hatred for others,” he said.
A few words occurring shortly after another key speech. It turns out that the separatists maintain that the Catalan countries It is a nation that extends from Guardamar to Salses and from the Balearic Islands to Fraga. Mazón, without at any time mentioning this delimitation, referred to “the entire “Valencian Community”from Vinaroz to Pilar de la Horadada” and “from the island of Tabarca to the Vall de Almonacid”.
Another key moment in the speech was when he forcefully declared that Valencian identity “cannot be a label in the service of any ideology”nor of course a reason for confrontation in which old offenses are raised, real or normally imaginary, because our identity as a people has not developed by confronting it with others.
To conclude this part by emphasizing that Valencian autonomy “is not a dead letter. On the contrary, today more than ever it is a living realityintact reference and guarantee of freedoms, rights, laws and duties. And we want to keep it that way. »
Referring to the issue of regional financing, he defended that “what belongs to all cannot be managed by a few. “There is no room for privileges, hoaxes or blackmail in the management of Spanish wealth and its equitable distribution.” Furthermore, he made another indirect reference to the Spanish government when he spoke about the fact that self-government should be used to move forward.
Among other things, “towards an educational policy where quality takes precedence over dogma”, but also towards a “fair and autonomous tax policy, not subject to blackmail”. Policies that, as he recalled, “the Valencians approved the majority with their vote and that the Generalitat, with the autonomy of the Valencians, has the mandate and powers to carry out”.
