The President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has demonstrated these first days of Government his ability to reach agreements with the different parties. He did it with Compromís for the Mesa de Les Corts, with the PSPV for the parliamentary calendar and, above all, with Vox in the Generalitat and in dozens of town halls. However, the agreement that has done the most damage to the Valencian left has been the one reached -at least tacitly- with La Vall Ens Uneix, a party born from a split from the PSPV as a result of the Alquería case.
This entente with the formation led by the mayor of Ontinyent, Jorge Rodríguez, has prevented the left from retaining the only feud to which it could aspire and has achieved that the PP assemble an institutional power unthinkable before 28-M.
An agreement that many in the PSPV already intuited based on the complicated negotiations with Ens Uneix to retain the institution, which had a stage with the entry of its only deputy into the Government of the provincial corporation and which was definitively sealed yesterday with the visit from Carlos Mazón to Ontinyent.
Rodríguez needed to justify this ideological shift before his voters (in front of his faithful who felt hurt with the PSPV when they abandoned them because of his imputation in the Alquería case, it was easier) in a progressive region like Vall d'Albaida. On 23-J, PSOE and Compromís-Sumar (which Rodríguez left in the opposition of the Diputación) reached 54% of the votes compared to 44.5% for PP and Vox.
To this, President Mazón contributed yesterday, who, during his visit, assured that the Ontinyent Hospital will have "essential and quality" health services and guaranteed that the dialysis treatment will return to the health area, avoiding the displacement of citizens to other regions. Following Rodríguez's argument, the head of the Consell affirmed, after visiting the center, that he had been able to verify the lack of means and endowment -operating rooms and essential services such as sterilization or endoscopic tests- that the Hospital suffers.
"We have found a hospital with installments and patches that is not up to the citizens and from public management we are going to improve the health treatment that this health department deserves," he explained.
In this line of collaboration that Mazón thanked the mayor of Ontinyent, the popular leader announced that the Ministry of Health "is going to get to work immediately to provide this center with all the necessary services to care for the patient."
For his part, a sign of good harmony, the former socialist leader applauded the "sensitivity that both President Mazón and the President (of the Valencia Provincial Council) Mompó have shown from the outset, when we expressed the problems that most concerned us as city".
In statements to the media, both were asked about the possibility that Rodríguez could hold the presidency of the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FVMP), in the hands of the PP thanks precisely to the result of the Provincial Council. The leader of the PP cleared up the question, assuring that this issue was not on the agenda for the day, while Jorge Rodríguez limited himself to saying that it is not in his plans, at this time, to preside over the institution. Nor was it in his plans at first to be part of the Government of the provincial institution.
PSPV response
As expected, Mazón's visit to Ontinyent did not please the PSPV at all. His deputy in Les Corts, Rafa Simó, regretted that it was only "to take the photo and stage the pact with which he managed to take over the Valencia Provincial Council." In addition, he added that "the PP continues without its own project, all Mazón has done is talk about the Ontinyent Hospital, which today is a reality thanks to Ximo Puig."
