Ana Vega, Vox trustee, yesterday accused the PSPV deputies of belonging to a party that is a “terrorist gang.” She also used other epithets such as “traitors to Spain”, “coup plotters”, or accusing them of being “accomplices” of an “illegal and illegitimate” government. The example serves to illustrate how the hostile climate that emanates from other geographies and from other political actors has strongly penetrated the Corts Valencianes. The extraordinary plenary session to address the effects of the Amnesty Law and the investiture pact of Pedro Sánchez showed that, even in this legislature, there will be no peace in the Corts Valencianes.
Carlos Mazón was in charge of opening the debate. In content it remained in line with what was expressed by the national leaders of his party; and he maintained, to tell the truth, good manners. He outlined a framework in which the Valencian Community was located as one of the most harmed by Sánchez’s pacts with the Catalan independentists. “I refuse to pick up the crumbs of what others achieve with blackmail,” announced the Valencian president who warned: “We Valencians do not want to be passive spectators.”
He defended that the investiture pact breaks equality between Spaniards, establishes a Spain of different speeds and will require that “any decision of the executive must be validated by Catalan separatism.” Mazón wondered what would happen if the Lady of Elx were “the Lady of Llobregat, surely they would return her” and warned the PSPV that these pacts “will not go well and will have effects on coexistence, stability and our social development.”
After condemning the violent demonstrations on several occasions, Mazón asked the socialist bench: “Did you think that people would not react? There has been a spontaneous reaction that goes beyond the parties and acronyms, because this agreement was not precise and there is no ambition that justifies it.”
Let’s go back to Ana Vega, because it was with her that the tone rose. He accused the PSOE of being “the architect of a coup d’état” due to the pacts reached, and Compromís, as “a ridiculous catchphrase for the PSOE and a doormat for the Catalan separatists.” The trustee of the PSPV-PSOE, Rebeca Torró, requested that these accusations be deleted from the session diary, something that Ana Vega rejected, so the president of Les Corts, Llanos Massó (also from Vox), decided to maintain them, alleging that citizens “You have the right to know what everyone has said in the chamber.”
In the course of the debate, several opposition deputies asked to speak for different references, but the president of the Chamber denied them, except for the PP deputy Beatriz Gascó, who replied to the Ombudsman of Compromís, Joan Baldoví, that there is no There was no ruling against him regarding Ciegsa, as he had proposed.
This caused great anger in the Compromís bench, whose deputies left the chamber, since their parliamentarian Juan Bordera had not previously been allowed to respond to the PP ombudsman, Miguel Barrachina, who had shown a news item in which it is said that Bordera faces a prison sentence for attacking Congress.
Rebeca Torró accused Mazón of using this institution as a “partisan instrument” and of being the “champion of tension, hatred and irresponsibility.” “They are not bothered by the amnesty or the pacts, they are bothered by the fact that we have a progressive government again,” said Torró, who defended that the right of pardon is protected by the Constitution, and asked the PP to stop the campaign to target deputies. socialists for voting in favor of the investiture.
The socialist leader assured that there is a name behind the attacks in the Valencian Community, that of Carlos Mazón, and warned him that “if something more serious happens, it will be very difficult for him to justify himself.” In his reply, Mazón affirmed that the name of the deputies who voted for the investiture appears in various media outlets and is also in the Congress session diary, and asked the PSPV if it is also going to sue the session diary.
Joan Baldoví, for his part, assured that neither Spain has been broken nor has there been a coup d’état, and pointed out that if you want to talk about an amnesty, you should talk about the PP tax amnesty that the Constitutional Court declared null in 2017. or the one requested by 45 PP deputies for Pedro Hernández Mateo, convicted of corruption.
In his second intervention, Mazón lamented the “dangerous drift of confrontation that infects the country” and in response to that, announced a “round of dialogue” with the parliamentary groups to “join efforts” on issues such as the General State Budgets, the renewal of statutory bodies, financing, water or Valencian civil law.