What is left to come

The week begins that will see the popular Carlos Mazón as the new president of the Valencian Generalitat.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
09 July 2023 Sunday 10:52
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What is left to come

The week begins that will see the popular Carlos Mazón as the new president of the Valencian Generalitat. He will be the visible head of a government in which Vox will have three portfolios and 7% of the total budget of the regional executive, a situation that has served the Valencian left to stir up fear by announcing the end of freedoms and the progress made in matters in the last eight years

Contrasting this notice, Mazón arrives at the Palau, in addition to with Vox, with a double visiting card. The first one that he exhibits is having favored Compromís, a staunch ideological enemy of the popular, to sit at the table of the Cortes at the cost of giving up a position that belonged to the PPCV itself. The second business card is to open the possibility, publicly and privately, to the incorporation of senior officials from the current Council to the new government. It is not bad to start a new political journey that is already accused of threatening freedoms and rights even before the transfer of portfolios. Can anyone imagine that in 2015 Ximo Puig or Mónica Oltra would have opened the possibility for any member of Will the 'Fabra administration' join the botanical tripartite project? The issue, however, is not new, Carlos Mazón as president of the Provincial Council of Alicante agreed with Compromís and up to three times the approval of the budgets of the local corporation, that is what politics is about.

But with all of the above, what does not offer debate is that the Valencian socialists already accumulate too many blunt blows in a very short time. If, in addition to losing your position at the table of the Cortes and that the future government upsets you by 'touching' your high positions, it ends up confirming that the PSPV also loses the Valencia Provincial Council after the swerve given by Jorge Rodríguez, it will be unpredictable to know that This is what can happen internally in the party, although the first reflection is that Carlos Fdez. Bielsa will find it more than a lot more complicated, being a power alternative to succeed Puig, and from there, who knows...