Nothing causes more concern in a moment of waiting, when someone close to you is in the operating room or in the delivery room, than a silent telephone. And there they are at this moment PP and Vox, it is not known whether birthing a new agreement or preparing a funeral ceremony.
The negotiation to agree the relief of Carlos Mazón does not start and the lack of news, with the seat of the Valencian Government vacant, has installed the leadership of the Valencian PP in a state of indefinition and tension. This is how things are after a week of high emotional intensity, in which we have gone through the 'shock' phase with the insults to Mazón at the state funeral, the tense wait during that long weekend of reflection for the president that culminated in a historic resignation and now the uncertainty in the face of a replacement that, in view of the events, Genoa had not designed.
Popular sources in Madrid recognized this Thursday that information traffic is zero at this time. Genoa is protecting contacts at the highest level, in the offices of the presidency and the general secretary of the national direction, and contacts with Valencian leaders have been reduced to a minimum for days.
However, in the last hours Messages of detente have also arrived from Madrid after the disagreement last week over the movements of the Palau and the PPCV to direct the transition: with Juanfran Pérez Llorcaas a candidate against the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, and Vicent Mompó as a possible alternative for the next elections.
While Vox has already appointed as main negotiator a most trusted man of Abascal, Ignacio Garrigaevery message that comes out of the ultra formation confirms that the pact is going to be expensive for the popular ones. If they want to avoid an electoral advance, the post-Mazón PPCV is going to have to assume much (if not all) of the policies against climate change and against illegal immigration. “Vox knows where it wants to go: we want total confrontation”said yesterday the general secretary of the Vox group in Congress, José María Figaredo.
The PPCV already demonstrated last May that in desperate situations He has no qualms about assuming his partner's demands. Mazón did so in a statement in the Cortes where he proclaimed that he would not accept any more distributions of immigrants from the Government or calling for action against the European green pact that his party defends in Brussels. Another different thing is that the policies that are included in the budgets are then executed.
The shadow of advance
However, with Vox's statements now raising the bar, the scenario of an electoral advance wins whole. In recent months, the tone of the national confrontation between Vox and the PP has increased in intensity. And now the electoral cycle opens. Despite the hardening of the PP's theses, it is Santiago Abascal who is making profitable the process of 'right-wing' public opinionalso becoming the force with the most support among young people. In the particular context of dana in the Valencian Community, furthermore, The latest polls prior to Mazón's resignation indicate that Vox would steal up to seven deputies from the PP at this time. Abascal has already shown that regional power is subordinate to the national strategy of the party. He did it in the summer of 2024, when he broke the pacts with the PP in the autonomies with the pretext of welcoming immigrants.
Faced with this scenario, on Génova Street and in the PPCV dome They fear that Vox wants to force an electoral advance to continue wearing down the Núñez Feijóowhich is having water leaks precisely where its greatest asset was suggested: in the autonomous power. The popular Valencians are at their lowest moment, and lack a clear reference at this moment. That lack of a clear poster is a minor problem for Vox. He former vice president Vicente Barrera He appears this Friday after his return as provincial leader of Vox in Valencia. “It will be the Vox leadership who decides if I am the candidate for the Generalitat,” pointed out this week.
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