This Wednesday, the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, filled the institutional speech on the occasion of October 9, Valencian Community Day, with allusions and defense of self-government, “which is not a dead letter”, and with implicit references to Catalonia, saying that “in the management of Spain’s wealth and its equitable distribution there is no room for privileges, bulls or blackmail.”
Mazón has also brought out the vindictive side when talking about the financing model, infrastructure or the “redistribution of water resources” to emphasize that they are issues of State that must transcend “any partisan approach. “What belongs to everyone is discussed among everyone, with lights and stenographers and not at separate tables or closed offices,” he noted.
The president of the Generalitat has assured that the Valencian is “a historical nationality, at the same level as the others recognized by the Constitution” and “no one makes it lower its head.” “We are not a second-class region, which owes allegiance to one or another or which has to ask permission – or apologies – to develop the powers that are its own by law,” he stated.
Valencianness has been another of the topics that Mazón wanted to refer to: “Valencianness is a bridge and not a wall,” he said and has appealed for October 9 not to be “an exam to adjust to a certain pattern”. The Valencian identity, he has indicated, “cannot be a label at the service of any ideology nor, of course, a reason for confrontation in which ancient offenses are raised, real or, normally, imaginary”, and he has advocated for “unearthing to always the old conflicts” to “look at a future that does not wait.”
Carlos Mazón has also taken the opportunity to show his vein of consensus and has stated that the Valencian Community will continue to insist on the path of dialogue because “talking is not for cowards nor is being pragmatic when it has to be”: “Scrutinizing the meaning of a proposal in Depending on its origin, it does not build a good democracy,” he added.
So much reference to self-government has not pleased the Vox ombudsman in the Valencian Cortes, José María Llanos, who has reproached him for having “talked too much” about self-government, although he has praised having “taken into account the achievements” shared between PP and Vox during his year as government partners.
Among the opposition parties, the minister and leader of the Valencian socialists, Diana Morant, has criticized Mazón’s “fictitious speech.” In response to the president’s criticism of addressing negotiations in “closed offices,” he recalled that “Mazón sat down last Friday in the Moncloa office with Sánchez.” “I don’t know what he means when he talks about obscurantism: with absolute transparency, the President of the Government sat down with Mazón,” he stressed. Regarding the financing demands, he criticized the Consell’s “fiscal hypocrisy”: “We cannot be demanding more money from the Government of Spain and use that money to forgive taxes on high incomes, on large assets. “That is what Mazón is doing: hypocrisy masked with the excuse of self-government.”
For his part, the Ombudsman of Compromís in Les Corts, Joan Baldoví, has described the speech as “empty of content.” “He is a president who talks a lot, but whose actions contradict him day after day. And when they do not deny his own actions, they deny the actions of his party there in Madrid,” he said. “He talks a lot but does very little,” insisted the leader of Compromís, who highlighted that the president of the Generalitat had spoken about civil law “when his own party vetoed and prevented it from being recovered.”
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