The PP led by Carlos Mazón has navigated this beginning of the legislature with relative calm after closing the first autonomous pact with Vox after the 28-M elections, with the political and media pressure that this meant for the popular Valencians. Since then, Mazón has been able to please his partners and Vox has avoided stepping into too many puddles. However, those of Santiago Abascal have not given up the symbolic battle - the so-called cultural war - on issues such as feminism and gender violence, climate change or signs of identity.
The Valencian PP - especially in Les Corts Valencianes - has let him do it, trying to compensate with its own initiatives in favor of the LGTBI community or with a firm commitment against gender violence for the dissent sought by its partners with the feminist determination of its vice president. , Susana Camarero.
In recent days, Vox has continued with its roadmap - sharpened after the poor results of the Galician elections and the loss of influence on the national scene - and has stepped on the accelerator to remove from the Valencian Parliament the Guillem Agulló Award that this institution gave to people and initiatives for their fight against racism, xenophobia and hate crimes. Without failing to condemn the murder of this young anti-fascist at the hands of a group of Nazis (tried and convicted) in 1993, the PP agreed last week to eliminate that award after the affront of its parliamentary partners.
However, just a few days later and prior to the visit of the head of the Consell to Catalonia, the popular ones began to distance themselves from their traveling companions. On Tuesday, its ombudsman, Miguel Barrachina, assured that his parliamentary group supported - despite not sharing some of the phrases in the explanatory statement - an institutional declaration by Compromís to condemn "the fascist aggression at the La Cosa Nostra social center in Castelló" that keeps a 32-year-old young man in the hospital. A request that, finally, could not be read in the plenary session this Wednesday due to Vox's refusal to support it when considering the text "partisan and sectarian."
Hours after Barrachina's statements, it was the general secretary and number two of the PPCV, Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca, who offered the opposition to recover a consensus in the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FVMP) -where Vox does not have a voice. to resume the Guillem Agulló Awards in recognition of entities and people who fight against hate crimes in the Valencian Community.
An offer that President Carlos Mazón raised during his visit to Calunya this Wednesday with a forceful message: "Guillem Agulló suffered an unpresentable homicide by a fascist, and we condemn him."
In case there were doubts about the new positioning of the PP, it was in Les Corts, where the controversy over the award began to rise like yeast, the stage in which the popular ombudsman, Miguel Barrachina, amended the positioning of his group and opened the door to agree with the opposition that the Valencian Parliament deliver the award again, as has been done since 2016.
It will not be unanimous - yesterday Vox denounced that the popular party "submits to the left" - and a different formula will have to be found than the institutional declaration, but the PP is willing to distance itself from its partners and seek agreements with the opposition. . And the political tension does not seem to please Carlos Mazón who, since the beginning of the legislature, has played to seek support on both sides of the Valencian political board.
