Carlos Mazón will be invested tomorrow as president of the Generalitat Valenciana with the votes of the PP and Vox. In other European geographies, with less polarized political climates and a greater tendency towards Realpolitik, Mazón would not have needed the ultra-right; The abstention of the PSPV would have been enough. What would have prevented Vox from accessing the institutions and splashing with regressive gestures, with profuse broadcasting on television, which could soon become decisions from the ministries that it will manage, one of them Culture, another Agriculture and another Justice, from where Resources are allocated to gender violence courts.
But this scenario of complicity between the majority forces to avoid associating with the extremes is, in this autonomy and in Spain, pure fiction, an impossibility that on Monday night we were able to verify in that harsh, fragmented and poorly moderated "no debate" between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo. José María Lasalle says that this is not the time for “moderates”, and he is right. Politics has given in to the shouting and anger conditioned by messages designed to go viral by appealing to emotions, ignoring the reasons.
Carlos Mazón will be sworn in tomorrow afternoon, and shortly after, Santiago Abascal will hold a rally in Valencia. The Vox leader likes, and knows how to dominate the scene. As happened the day the Corts were established after 28-M, Abascal wants to leave his mark with his presence, underlining that what he has achieved in the Valencian Community is the best of all the pacts he has closed with the PP in other autonomies, because it is where he has achieved more power and greater visibility. And that if he has the opportunity, which will depend on the result of 23-J, he will also want to emulate in the Spanish Government what has been achieved in the Generalitat Valenciana. Tomorrow Vox also wants to have a leading role, even if it is the day of the investiture.
Carlos Mazón will be sworn in as president tomorrow and from that moment on he will be the image of the Valencian executive, of the entire Consell, of the areas that his party will manage and those that Vox will manage. Therefore, the responsibility falls on Mazón to modulate, and sometimes stop, the attacks that Vox will inevitably carry out to gain visibility in this change of political cycle in the Valencian Community.
Gestures like the one last Monday, in which the president of Les Corts moved away from the banner against sexist violence, are intuited as a warning from others who question consensus and are a direct torpedo to the tolerance that is the foundation of a liberal democracy. And they could worsen if the 23-J Vox is harmed in favor of the PP. Carlos Mazón will be president tomorrow and Santiago Abascal will come to Valencia to underline that he also governs the Generalitat Valenciana.
