The agreement reached yesterday between the PP and Vox has allowed Santiago Abascal's party to underline a large part of its cultural and symbolic story to the PP. The pact between both political forces to govern the Valencian Community and for Carlos Mazón to reach the presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana highlights the ideological bases that motivate Vox's political action and permeates the papers signed yesterday, which contemplate 50 government actions for the legislature . There is no reference to gender violence, feminism or equality, and yes to "domestic violence". The will to repeal the norms of historical memory is noted and there is no reference to the effects of climate change. The objective of fighting against "illegal immigration" and the "occupation" of homes is shown, even creating an "office", land in which Vox has always made a flag. And in a Valencian key, aid to Catalan entities that promote the idea of "Catalan countries" will be eliminated, an issue that the PP also shared in the campaign.
The Valencian PP has obtained control of the so-called strategic ministries such as Finance, Health or Education, which is an interesting victory since it will control more than 92% of the budget of the Generalitat Valenciana. Executive control of the Consell is held by Carlos Mazón. Vox also wanted to control the educational area, which would have been a huge risk to the peace of mind that the new president needs at the beginning of this legislature. The PP has left in writing the drastic reduction in taxes and the elimination of some such as inheritance or the tourist tax. But the symbolic story, the one that defines the spirit of a pact, that determines the values of an agreement, have favored Vox, which has also achieved a vice presidency, which will be managed by former bullfighter Vicente Barrera, who assumes the area of Culture, and the Justice and Agriculture portfolios.
The Valencian PP has paid a significant price to achieve its objective, and that price could have consequences, not so much in the Valencian Community, where Carlos Mazón has guaranteed government stability, but rather in the image of his party in the rest of Spain, with the possibility of reconditioning some agreements that are being negotiated in other autonomies. It is the price that Abascal seems to have imposed in exchange for removing the candidate from him for Valencia, convicted of sexist violence, from the Valencian government and courts, placing him first on the list for Congress. It will be necessary to see if what was agreed in Valencia ends up incorporating new elements of confrontation in the political campaign of the next general elections, an issue that was taken into account yesterday in Genoa, according to sources from this formation. And if the negotiation framework between the PP and Vox in Valencia ends up being transferred to a future Spanish Government between Feijóo and Abascal.
Carlos Mazón will be president of the Generalitat Valenciana, and will have the necessary support to govern with hypothetical tranquility. His ability to negotiate has been demonstrated, he has done it in record time. We insist, success for him is indisputable. But for this he has had to renounce, at least on the paper signed with Vox, some of the postulates that he repeatedly defended during the electoral campaign, such as his recognition of gender violence, the existence of climate change and its serious consequences or their understanding of the need for a more egalitarian society.
In this newspaper we have defended that Mazón had no room for maneuver and that the pact with Vox was logical and inevitable according to parliamentary arithmetic. But giving in in the cultural and symbolic fields can affect the image of a party that, in the Valencian case, has always moved within the margins of classical liberalism. It would be desirable for it to continue to be so, and that the executive control of the Consell that the new president will have prevents the cultural and symbolic story of Vox from being a determining factor in Valencian politics.
