The first Mascletà de Bonfires on Wednesday had a huge surprise. He President of the GeneralitatCarlos Mazón, appeared in the massive public act in Luceros, where his presence generated enormous expectation. The popular leader was accompanied at all times by a cameraman. Mazón He made an appearance accompanied by his men of maximum confidence in the PP, such as the autonomous general secretary, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, the president of the Diputación, Toni Pérez, or the Minister José Antonio Rovira. In that delegation was also the mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcala.
Unlike last year, in which Mazón took the opportunity to take a mass bath in Luceoson this occasion the popular leader did not come to greet the public who was on the other side of the fences of the perimeter of the source or any selfi was made. Apart from Pérez Llorca, Toni Pérez or Rovira, was accompanied by his Core in the Generalitat (José Manuel Cuenca, Cayetano García, Francisco González and Santiago Lumbreras) and, thus, dissipated the first day the uncertainty about whether or not to witness any of the Mascletás.
Mazón's presence occurred without warning and without summoning the media. In fact, the president had starred in a previous act in Campello at noon in which he had been asked if he had planned to go to the mascletanto which he did not respond. This has been the first act so massive in which Mazón participates since his controversial management of the DANA of the province of Valencia in late October, a situation that put his political future in question. He popular leader He did not participate, for example, in the last Santa Faz and in the Fallas of Valencia he only went to the Cremà without warning.
During the mascletà they were heard screams asking for the resignation of the popular leader. His presence in Luceros also confirms that Mazón feels that he has won an oxygen ball due to the alleged corruption cases that are surrounding the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and that they have resulted in the resignation of the PSOE Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán.
Before the beginning of the Mascletá Mazón, he also visited the media clutches, located in the gardens of the Diputación, and had the opportunity to share time with some of the Alicante personalities who also went on Wednesday at the first Mascletà. Among the conversations held by the Chief of the Consell, the one he had with the rectors of the two public universities of the province, the UA and the UMH, the UMH, Amparo Navarro and Juanjo Ruizwith which he was joking together with the Minister Rovira after the strong controversy that has been happening the last year around medical studies.
Once the Mascletà was finished, when the time to take the photos of the political authorities with the highest representatives of the bonfires, there was the negative of the left To appear in the image. The councilors of the PSOE, Compromís and Eu-Podimos made their particular Boicot to Mazón. In this way, the president of the Generalitat was portrayed only with Barcala and his government team and with the Vox councilors in Alicante.
