The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities and general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE, Diana Morant, has accused this Saturday the acting president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, of having “deceived the Valencians again” with a “fake” resignation that should include that of the entire PPCV because “everyone is co-responsible” for the management of the dana.
In a press conference in Valencia, the minister described the decision made by Mazón last Monday as “fake”, and assured that it “should have been a relief”, but “it has once again been a deception by the PPCV, because Mazón is still president, he is still a deputy and receiving his salary, he continues to be exempted and protected from being accountable to justice and he is still president of the PPCV”.
Therefore, he added, “he is still the one in charge and the one who is piloting the current situation of the PP and the Valencians.” His decision, he noted, “is an extension of the PP to fix its problem, which ends up being that of the Valencians.” A decision that also comes “one year and 13 demonstrations later.” For some time he said that “Mazón took a breath of fresh air, he extended the after-dinner meal, he walked to the parking lot and the things that we still don't know: for a while the Valencians didn't have them.”
The general secretary has said that this “fake” solution is “sought under the interests of two parties, the PPCV and the PP of Spain, because Feijóo is also taking stock of what is of interest or not, and Abascal's Vox”, which are acting “under parameters of convenience.” And he has shown an “absolute rejection” of the “tacticist maneuvers” that “aim to impose a failed solution to the crisis caused in the Valencian Community from Madrid.”
Diana Morant has assured that one of the axes of these negotiations will put into play the right to protect citizens against the consequences of climate change. “The PP and Vox are going to offer us in the Valencian Community more denialism of climate change and science,” when “that denialist coalition has become 229 victims.”
For his part, the spokesperson for Compromís in the Corts, Joan Baldoví, commented that “the president of the Valencians should be elected by the Valencian people and not by the PP and Vox politicians in the offices of Madrid. It is totally undemocratic that they want to impose a new Mazón on us instead of giving the voice back to the citizens.”
In this sense, Baldoví has criticized the secret negotiation that PP and Vox are carrying out: “It is a lack of respect that they are dividing the Generalitat as if it were a cake, and that they do it with their backs to the Valencian people. A disdain for Valencian self-government and an institution like the Generalitat, with centuries of history.”
“They may delay the elections, but sooner or later, Valencians will have to go to the polls and will not forgive either the political leaders for the negligent management during and after DANA or Mazón's accomplices,” Baldoví concluded.