If the bullfighter Vicente Barrera had not left the position of vice president of the Valencian Community in July by order of Commander Santiago Abascal, he would have been able to instruct the Consell on what it means that, in three weeks, there will be a second massive demonstration against Carlos Mazón in the streets. It’s two touches. In bullfighting, at the third warning the carcass is sent back to bullpens. In Valencia, only the Popular Party can do this, in case it thinks that the president takes too much away from it. For now, Feijóo has settled for not making any more mistakes and turning a blind eye when they are made. The Valencian PP does not exist beyond Mazón. And he doesn’t plan to leave. If it is necessary to spend the ‘birthday’ of the DANA tragedy barricaded on a rural road in Utiel, a standing microphone is set up between stumps of earth, an appearance is improvised and it is passed. No problem. If it is necessary for two councilors to resign, they will be resigned, even if you are the one who has signed them and the entire team that has failed. If criticism from the police, firefighters or the EMU needs to be silenced, it should be done.
The bullfighter Barrera has been replaced by the military man Gan Pampols, but for those affected and neighbors it is not worth it as a magic recipe and this Saturday they came out in thousands to demonstrate in the capital’s City Hall square. 100,000, according to official figures, in a capital of 800,000, almost the same as in the first call. On their way to a place where they could ask for justice and help, they crossed paths with the consumerism of the Black Days, the tardiness and the runners who have come in thousands to the marathon and trained in the same streets of the same city that has not yet woken up. from your worst nightmare. Whoever made the audacity of wanting to take a bus may still be there at this hour: Valencia continues its tourist festival after being once again chosen the best city in the world to live in, although it is still stuck on public transport with vehicles that display the “complete” sign. ” at all hours.
The demonstration raised the unanimous cry of “Mazón resigned”, the motto of the progressive convening entities. When they arrived near the Palau de la Generalitat they also shouted at Mazón, but he did not listen to them. The president was not in his office. throughout the weekend There are no planned meetings or public agenda. He usually goes to Alicante, where his family is, like last week. At least it learned its communicative lesson and did not tweet its achievements during the protest of thousands of its citizens. The Popular Party of the Valencian Community also had the detail of not classifying the protesters this time as Catalanists.
Many of the banners were about his disappearance on October 29 – “How good the food is at Ventorro”, a restaurant that has become a point of morbid pilgrimage and its booth is full of reservations, or the classic already “El que warn is not Mazón” – but that feeling of injustice for doing nothing while two tongues of water swallowed 70 towns has inflated. Now there is a balloon of indignation also for the other days and the public rudeness or the indifference of some responses. Your Council does not visit ground zero and does not approach the neighbors. Mazón’s speeches have no trace of empathy or real pain. Either he doesn’t feel it or the person who writes the texts to him is not capable of putting them on paper. No tribute was organized in the first month of a tragedy that has left 222 dead and several missing. His Minister of Education was in Alicante when a worker who was sent to clean a ruined school was crushed to death in Catarroja and did not even go to the town because according to him it was not necessary. Instead, he claimed his right to family. Dozens of schools remain closed without anyone issuing documentation as to whether or not they are safe.
Therefore, in addition to chanting “The president, to Picassent”, which is where the València prison is located, the testimonies on the streets point to reconstruction. “They abandoned us the first week, we are still abandoned and we will continue to be abandoned,” lamented with realism or pessimism, depending on the scale of enthusiasm of each one, a girl who has her parents in Alfafar. The central government is also included in this abandonment. “All”. Some banners, although the fewest, were also against the Sánchez Government, and the chant “Teresa Ribera, you are the first” was heard.
Carlos Mazón, who is the leader of the reconstruction, is lost and seems reluctant to face the enormous task that remains. We are not even in the first grade of reconstruction because we need to get the people out of the mud and revive their economy. It’s a lot of work. Perhaps because it is too much, he has delegated vice president Susana Camarero to be his voice. He is not considering a press conference nor has he done anything more than tweets or bangs at the doors of Cecopi. He has delegated the head to Lieutenant General Gan Pampols, as if a single man, no matter how military he may be, could have the entire autonomous administration in mind or be in charge of all the decrees, changes and contracts that must be made in the greatest challenge of this province since the last flood, in 1957. If Mazón is not the eyes of the tragedy either, since he is confined with his three trusted advisors and does not set foot on the street, it is inevitable to ask the question: then, what vital organ is occupies Mazon?
The thousands of protesters want the president to pay for what he did and, above all, for what he did not do, but this time they also want answers to the emergency that are true, not statements or patches to get by. Valencia needs those affected to have a life and after that, a deep and real reconstruction. At the moment there is no normality in public transport and the industrial estates remain closed with the merchandise destroyed. Those who took to the streets doubt very strongly and very loudly the capabilities and desire of Mazón, who has not yet managed to convey the image that he is leading any emergency government. Nor does it help his confidence that he ends up using Aldama’s wild card or Sánchez’s wife in his debates in Les Corts, who is far away with the mud around her neck. At the head of the demonstration there were DANA victims and an Emergency technician who picked up the phone from dozens of desperate citizens that fateful day and who read the final manifesto: “You cannot lead the reconstruction, there has to be a change in economic policies.” and social that puts life at the center.”
After removing from the center of the debate who he ate with on the 29th – something that he ended up admitting after six different versions – now what is in the target is what is the salary of Lieutenant General Gan Pampols, which is still kept hidden despite public interest and the questions that the president raffles off. Another symptom that either you don’t know how to read the street, or you don’t give it enough importance. His vice president, to whom he has tied his destiny as a lifeguard, will be able to earn more than the rest thanks to the fact that a decree has been sneakily snuck in. The street is not in the mood for salaries. It will be difficult to explain why a soldier in the reserve could not earn ‘only’ 92,000 euros and will earn more. And it is even more difficult for the newspaper library to resist when the figure is known: “So that it does not lose purchasing power,” Mazón said at the time, as if it were an act of justice, when so many affected people feel so unjustly treated.
For example, no hotels or houses have been built. They continue to draw on savings or loans. The commercial basements of the towns of l’Horta Sud are closed. The public administration, the one that Mazón’s PP and Vox have so denigrated, attacking its alleged beach bars and inefficiencies, is quite difficult to know and manage. Not just anyone can do it, as has been proven. For example, they realized that a decree had to be published to clean private garages three weeks after having them flooded. That immense political and legal architecture that should move resources here, money there, change tasks to some departments or sign exceptions and contracts without stopping remains stuck or falls to the weight of an anonymous second rank and official waiting for an idea, to the lieutenant general, whatever.
Asking for Mazón’s resignation is a motto. I wish Mazón’s action could be requested, but it is a rhetorical request that has not arrived at the moment. And since it doesn’t arrive, Mazón resigns. Or everyone resigns, as many at ground zero already say, without the desire or time to do fine analysis. Let me get the money, the car, let me have a house, let someone bring it.
Mazón is not going to resign. He is clear about it from the beginning and waits for the pressure on the street to drop, he forgets, he gets bored, he goes back to his thing, at Christmas or the next Black Friday. In his party in Valencia there is nothing structured, not even current against it, if we except his bad relationship with the mayor of Valencia. Feijóo wanted to give him a touch and came out with his ears down, bullfighted and shorn. He had to resort to the paternalistic “let there be no more mistakes.” Only if the party felt so much pressure that the president was too toxic would they let him fall. His godfather Teodoro García Egea and Pablo Casado left for much less. If that happens, who best can replace him? After the question the echo sounds. And after the echo, Vox remembers that it is the key to that.
In the political loop there are cabals, but in the street loop there is a lot of fatigue, which has turned into a demonstration where anger has been joined by a certain restlessness and hopelessness. A second warning was reiterated this Saturday. If there are three, there will be no bullpens, but there will be the confirmation that València is hurt, dissatisfied, needy and worried. It is no longer just about that “private work lunch” and the lack of an explanation or a balm. Now the question is if there is someone acting, why a month later life continues while life cannot continue. And who and how will help leave the mud behind.
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