Mazón Strikes Back with Full Force Against PSOE

Outside the masks. The time has ended, if there ever was any, for pacification and unity among the parties in the Valencian Community to push forward the reconstruction after the devastating DANA of October 29. Not even the appearance of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, in Les Corts to account for his management that day was as harsh as the control session this Thursday in the regional chamber. All in the presence of the new consellers and Vice President Gan Pampols, who were making their debut in the Hemicycle.

Mazón has lashed out with everything he has, and what he has found, against the PSOE. From the "dear president" of October 31 to hitting Pedro Sánchez for the lack of central government aid to the Generalitat; from calling the spokespersons to Cecopi to striking the socialists with Aldama, the attorney general, or Ábalos.

The regional chamber has become an extension of national political disputes, where Mazón has sought to oppose the same Pedro Sánchez. He has defended that he has "faced the situation, time and again," regarding the management of the DANA of last October 29, against a government president who has appeared "a month late, dragging his feet," and not admitting "a single mistake."

The head of the Consell has accused the socialists of "spending money on social media advertising to fill them with insults and tension" to "cover up all the corruption surrounding their president, their government, and their party," listing all the cases currently in court. "It's their moment (echoing a phrase taken from a speech prepared for the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo) and that's why in the morning they extend a hand to approve a budget and in the afternoon they withdraw it. You at your moment, to take advantage, and us to push forward the reconstruction of the Valencian Community," he expressed.

At this point, he challenged the socialists to "tell the citizens that part of the government's aid are loans that must be repaid with interest." "They have gone from the shame of 'if they want help, let them ask for it' to the immorality of 'if they want help, let them pay for it,'" he criticized.

The summary of Mazón's speech was to accuse the socialists of turning "a tragedy into a political battlefield where everything is calculation for you," he lamented. And indeed, the speech of the PSPV spokesperson, José Muñoz, went straight for the jugular of the head of the Consell.

He reproached Mazón for neither being "nor being up to the emergency" and for not having "faced" the management of the DANA. "The Valencians had and have the worst president at the worst moment," he criticized.

The socialist spokesperson emphasized that the Valencian Community was "unreachable in the tragic hours" of the DANA on October 29 and "did not give importance to what was happening." Furthermore, he reproached him for the "changes of version" about the lost hours of Mazón until he reached Cecopi.

The narrative of socialist criticism grows by the day, from October 29 itself to the form of the inauguration of the new Consell. Muñoz lamented that while Mazón is "slow in making some decisions" and "quick in making others" like "raising his salary", which was "the first measure of the Consell."