Carlos Mazón made it clear yesterday in his institutional speech on October 9, the day of the Valencian Community, that he will be "firm" in his demand that the Government respond to the historical Valencian demands such as the improvement of regional financing, the increase in investments, the execution of strategic infrastructures such as the expansion of the Port of Valencia or the Mediterranean corridor, the solution for the lack of water and even the incorporation of Valencian Civil Law into the Constitution.
This is what has always been known as the "Valencian agenda", which the Botànic government chaired by Ximo Puig claimed without success, except in equating investments to the population weight, although with a ridiculous presence of these in Alicante. Mazón made these demands his own yesterday and turned them into a warning to Pedro Sánchez, without mentioning him, if he manages to be inaugurated soon.
On this occasion, Mazón appealed to the “unity” and “consensus” of Valencians in an objective in which he asked for “a sense of State” for demands that must find “an adequate response, not just any response” from the Government. He said it before Valencian civil society at the Palau de la Generalitat, in an event attended by, among others, the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, and the president of Congress, Francina Armengol.
The Valencian president defended that none of these major issues "are a matter of money or resources, even though they are. They are a matter of people." He explained that the demand for more resources "does not begin and end in an account of debits and credits," since "distributing resources is distributing opportunities, and behind every opportunity there is a person."
It was a speech that incorporated an unwritten message, because it was a warning to Pedro Sánchez that the Valencian executive of the PP and Vox will not doubt the confrontation to achieve these objectives. Mazón also appealed to the territorial debate, underlining his “conviction to continue advancing in the development of our self-government, which has contributed so much to the progress of Valencians and Spain as a whole.”
In his speech, in which he exchanged Spanish and Valencian, Mazón stressed that the Valencian Community must “defend the signs of identity that are their own and not copy or be inspired by other territorial roadmaps that bear little or no resemblance to the fixed in the spirit and letter of our Statute” in clear allusion, without mentioning it, to Catalonia. In this regard, he defended that “our language is Valencian” and stressed that “there are no owners of territorial plurality.”
On this issue he added that "I refuse to think that the diversity of this land has owners. It is the Valencian Community as it is. Not what only some want it to be. Not an interested and deformed story to make it seem like what it is not and a caricature is imposed that, in reality, never existed," he added.
Mazón pointed out that this Day of the Valencian Community the Generalitat vindicates "our legitimate aspirations", although he noted that the objective is "to meet equally legitimate expectations." Among them, those of a public health system that "deserves to be dignified"; those of health workers who deserve "attention and recognition"; those of social services that must be "decent at last"; those of the elderly and vulnerable people; those of those who "have been waiting for years for a housing policy that really works"; those of an education "for the future for our children"; and those of young people, who expect "something more than words."
And to meet these expectations "it is not enough" to request more resources, but rather to "guarantee efficient management that supports our own arguments." "More autonomy means simplifying procedures for people and companies. More autonomy means more protection for women. More autonomy means more security on our streets. More autonomy means energy sovereignty. More autonomy to claim, in a unitary way, Valencian civil law" .
He indicated that the Generalitat intends to be "a reference" for those who believe that "the trajectory of the past and the work that lies ahead for our self-government deserve to be dignified."
