Les Corts Reject Compromís Proposal to Demand Mazón's Resignation

Valencian Parliament has rejected the proposal by Compromís to demand the resignation of the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, due to his handling of the dana on October 29. The vote was ultimately secret, at the request of Vox, but conducted electronically rather than by ballot.

The system recorded 94 votes instead of the 97 deputies present, leading Compromís to allege a possible "rigging" after the system failed. It marked the end of a particularly harsh control session, as all have been since November, especially focused on the dana management.

The vote followed a heated debate where the proponent of the resignation initiative, Compromís spokesperson Joan Baldoví, reiterated his call for Mazón's dismissal: "He is a finished, amortized, and pathetic president," he declared.

Baldoví emphasized that Mazón should "resign for many reasons," at least three: "Firstly, because he will send a late alert, causing 227 victims; secondly, because he will not mobilize all resources and will reject help, up to 26; but above all, he should resign because he has neither the decency nor the humanity to apologize to the victims or meet with them."

Meanwhile, the PSPV-PSOE has labelled the President of the Generalitat as the "junkie of lies" for his management of the dana. Socialist spokesperson José Muñoz criticized Carlos Mazón for his "indignity" in "clinging" lamentably to the "chair" of the Presidency of the Generalitat. "Do you not have a conscience or feel the weight of the 227 deceased? Can you sleep at night? Do you never think when you look in the mirror and ask what am I doing here and why don't I go home?" he questioned.

He also questioned when the President of the Valencia Provincial Council, Vicent Mompó, on October 29 at the Cecopi "told him to send the alert at once," which was "ready since 7:00 p.m. and was not sent because he was not" present in this body. "It's enough for you to go home and let us move on, we can't stand you as President of the Generalitat any longer, it's disgraceful," he expressed.

Mazón responded to each of these attacks with various arguments. He almost ignored Baldoví: "You will not be able to stop the recovery. Forget it, stay in the mud, in the pain, in the hate," he replied, while the Consell is "completely focused on reconstruction."

"You insist on destroying. It is your decision. There remains your political ethics. You continue doing what you always do. You keep making pain your business. And hate your political fuel. You will find me working," Mazón reprimanded.

He responded more vigorously to the socialist spokesperson. The Generalitat and the central government are at odds over who is responsible for the information and alert on October 29. He criticized the socialists for trying to "prop up a narrative" that, in his view, "is falling apart."

At this point, he boasted about the aid launched by the Valencian Government for the loss of vehicles or homes compared to those mobilized by the central government and claimed that his Consell has paid "4%" compared to "7.66%" by the central government. "It's so clear that to receive aid... nothing like being a brother of a socialist government president," he reproached.

And more against Pedro Sánchez. Carlos Mazón hinted that he "is not the one who stops showing his face or flees from places." "That's not me," he stated. Subsequently, he criticized the Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, who "acknowledged that the works in the Poyo ravine were not done due to the damned Huerta Law signed" by the now socialist deputy María José Salvador "and all of you voted for." "If the early detection system saved lives, why was it never implemented? Whose lives are at stake?" he questioned, while asking "what does the Valencian minister Diana Morant think of all this, traveling "in Antarctica, where you will all end up, on Deception Island," he concluded.