The Valencian president Carlos Mazon defended in the institutional discourse on the occasion of the October 9, Valencian Community DayTHE equality between the autonomous communities and the autonomous constitutional framework to urgent questions you are considering “State issues” such as regional financing.
Amid the storm surrounding the single agreement for Catalonia concluded by Pedro Sánchez with the ERC, Mazón warned that “What belongs to everyone cannot be managed by a few”. As he has already stated in his meeting with Pedro Sánchez himself last weekthe Valencian president defends that we must be pragmatic and that is why he is ready to speak, but under the same conditions and at the same table for everyone.
“What belongs to each is discussed among all with lights and stenographers“, he repeated in his institutional speech, where he also assured that “there is no place for privileges, hoaxes or blackmail” in these affairs of state, among which he included “the urgent updating of the financing model, promotion of infrastructure or redistribution of water resources“.
Despite his rejection of the Catalan concert, the PP baron also marked certain distances with other regional leaders of his own party by Clearly explain your willingness to negotiate. “Talking is not for cowards, nor is it It’s being pragmatic when it’s time to be pragmatic“, he insisted, while specifying that these conversations cannot be bilateral as in the Catalan case. “The dialogue to find the solutions that we can find and on which we can agree cannot have only one substance: the equality of all.
Mazón claimed Valencian autonomy as a guarantee of freedom and laws, in addition to recalling that the Constitution and the Statute of Autonomy have generated a long period of stability, which many territories in the world would like. In the same vein, it also clarified that it would claim the same rights and powers as any other CCAA.
“The Valencian Community is a historical nationality at the same level as the others recognized by the Constitution, we are not a second class region that he owes allegiance to one or the other or that he must ask permission or apologize for having exercised the powers that belong to him”, declared the Valencian president in his speech at the Palau de la Generalitat de Valence.
“There is no additional vote that can justify the breakdown of a broad consensus on issues central to economic development and social progress.” This is why he felt that “it is imperative that together we can find this generosity and this empathy in the public debate. It is necessary to return to the coordinates where the democratic conversation takes place best: serenity and dialogue.
Central act of the celebration
The President of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, and the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, also Secretary General of the PSPV-PSOE, attended the institutional event of the Valencian Community Day, at the seat of the Valencian government. Morant was leader of the opposition and asked the popular president to “claim less and cry less” before the government and to “work more” within the autonomous powers which he considers “neglected”.
In addition, the distinctions of the Generalitat Valenciana were also awarded, with which each year the work and work of outstanding personalities from Alicante, Castellón and Valencia, as well as associations and companies, are recognized. On behalf of the winners, the pastry chef from Alicante Paco Torreblanca, was responsible for offering the “dessert” of thanks for some recognitions that he particularly appreciated because he came “from his own city”.
Torreblanca urged to maintain what has been his maxim in life: “Head in the stars and feet on the ground”. A recipe for dreaming of the greatest achievements and “working hard to achieve them”. Finally, he recalled that the Valencian Community “is a cradle of many talents that should not be left in vain” and urged to work so that “the future of young people is even sweeter.”
