The senior staff of the PP -including the former presidents of the Government José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy- have disembarked this weekend in Valencia to kick off the municipal and regional elections on May 28. Some elections where, apart from Madrid where Isabel Díaz Ayuso will once again reach an absolute majority, the great battle is played in the Valencian Community. Taking away from the PSOE the largest autonomy that it governs would be a hard blow for Pedro Sánchez in the face of the generals, the true objective of the PP.
In this context, the election of Valencia for one of the great events prior to the campaign that the popular ones are going to carry out is understood. Yesterday, the deputy secretary for Regional and Local Coordination of the PP, Pedro Rollán, presented this forum as the "starting gun" for the electoral campaign ahead of May 28, when "the exit door" will be marked for the President of the Government, situation that will mean "a before and after" for Spain.
Some days that should also serve to give a push to the leader of the Valencian PP, Carlos Mazón, who still does not have a high level of knowledge and for whom the polls do not smile as much as Nuñez Feijóo. Mazón will participate tomorrow in the closing ceremony together with the national president of the party and the candidate for Mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá.
The popular meeting takes place at a time when the relationship between the Valencian president, Ximo Puig, and the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is not going through the best moment, after the Executive turned its back on the Valencian socialists in the controversy over the transfer of the Tagus to the Segura. Positioning on issues such as the delay in the financing model or civil law does not help Ximo Puig in his challenge to retain the Valencian Community either.
This Saturday, at the inauguration of the intermunicipal, the general secretary of the Popular Party, Cuca Gamarra, has not hesitated to predict that Mazón will be the next president of the Generalitat and "will slam the scandals" of Mónica Oltra and those who Ximo Puig "is starring right now." Along the same lines, she has assured that María José Catalá will be the next mayoress of Valencia, a city that is an "emblem" for Spain and for this party.
As reported by EFE, Gamarra has also had words of remembrance for the "longed for" former mayor of this city, the late Rita Barberá, who he has said will be "very present."
The popular leader has asserted that the popular are going to recover "the good government" of the Valencian Community and "the lost years" during the government of the left. Thus, the also spokesperson for the popular group in the Congress of Deputies has claimed that Valencia is "in the DNA of the PP", and has recalled the "mythical closing of the campaign" in Mestalla that Aznar starred in 1996 (who will intervene in the afternoon ), who "always says that it is one of the most exciting moments of his political career", and the Intermunicipal elections held here in 2001 and 2014.
"We are putting Valencia back at the center of popular and Spanish municipalism", highlighted Gamarra, who explained that many things have changed in these two decades, including that some "unfortunately, are no longer with us".
The provincial president of the PP of Valencia, Vicente Mompó, has stated that "it is time to comply" with the Valencian Community, to make the Mediterranean Corridor a reality, to solve the financing problem, and to recover Valencian civil law.
"Luckily there is nothing left. Smile, they are leaving: Pedro Sánchez is leaving, Ximo Puig is leaving and we will finally forget Oltra," said Mompó, who concluded: "It is time for Carlos Mazón."
