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Sábado, 1 de febrero 2025, 13:45
Prime Minister and PSOE leader, Pedro Sánchez, expressed confidence that the citizens of the Valencian Community will "set things right with their vote" in the upcoming regional elections. "Carlos Mazón will be sent home and Diana Morant will lead the Generalitat," he declared, referring to the 'president' and the PSPV leader, respectively.
He made these remarks during the inauguration of the 15th PSPV Congress, where Morant was confirmed as the party's general secretary. Sánchez devoted part of his speech to criticising Mazón's administration of the storm, urging socialists to defeat him at the polls.
Amid chants of 'Mazón resignation' from congress attendees, just hours before the fourth protest in Valencia against his storm management, Sánchez accused the PP of "not being there during the tragedy" and now "not being present in the reconstruction." "Where is the People's Party of the Valencian Community? They are neither here nor expected," he asserted.
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Conversely, he assured that if Morant were president, she would have been "in the same place where all the socialist mayors of the affected municipalities have been," as well as where the Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, or former president Ximo Puig were during the storm that hit Vega Baja in Alicante in 2019: "Diana Morant would have been on the front line, fulfilling her duty."
"Fortunately, both the people of the Valencian Community and their public servants are far superior to Mazón's government," he praised, calling on socialists to build an alternative to the PPCV to be able to win the next elections.
Until then, Sánchez insisted that the Government, as it has done "since that fateful 29th of October, is and will be with all affected municipalities, with their residents": "We said from the beginning: all the State's resources, for as long as necessary, whatever the volume of resources needed for the total and complete reconstruction and relaunch of the Valencian Community."
Pedro Sánchez
Additionally, he recalled that PP and Vox passed in Les Corts on the same day of the storm an "omnibus law" (the administrative simplification bill) which reduced the minimum distance for building hotels on the Valencian coast from 500 to 200 metres, noting that "one of the effects of climate change is the rising sea level due to melting ice."
He thus criticised "the denialist coalition in the Valencian Courts, some governing (PP) and others supporting (Vox)," linking it to the fact that the PP has placed a denialist party like Vox at the head of the storm investigation commission in the regional parliament. A commission, he stressed, that must "investigate responsibilities and provide answers" to future disasters.
"In the face of the climate emergency, politics must respond, anticipate, mitigate, and adapt to this reality that, unfortunately, is particularly affecting, as science says, the Mediterranean," he emphasised.
For all these reasons, Sánchez predicted that the PSOE will be able to "defeat" "this denialist coalition" in the upcoming elections, considering it "a real public danger to people's safety." "PP and Vox and their denialism are like 'overcooked rice'," he said, using "a Valencian expression that is very eloquent."
He expressed confidence that socialists will be able to "turn that denialism into the past" and "open the doors to the future that the Valencian Community deserves and needs, with Diana Morant and the PSPV, from Valencia to Castellón via Alicante."
On another note, the president criticised Mazón's comparison of the aid provided by the Government to the Palestinian people and those affected by the storm: "One cannot trivialise the mass murder of Gazans in Palestine simply to cover up your incompetence at the helm of the Valencian Generalitat during the darkest hours of the storm in Valencia."
He also thanked and praised "the good work of the State's security forces" during the storm: "A hug to them because they worked very hard during the most difficult times."
In her prior speech, the PSPV leader and Minister of Science also advocated for building "the necessary alternative to the denialist coalition," while thanking Sánchez "for being with the Valencians one more day and from the first day" after October 29th.
"Already at the extraordinary congress in Benicàssim we said we were necessary. With the storm, we are more necessary," she emphasised, referring to the PSPV conclave last March where she was elected to succeed Ximo Puig as general secretary.
Morant also recalled the letter Sánchez sent to all Spaniards inviting them to reflect, after which the PSOE headquarters in Ferraz "was filled with ultra people singing 'cara al sol' and celebrating New Year's Eve by beating a doll shaped like the president or with inflatable dolls they claimed were socialist ministers."
"They came to intimidate us with the only thing they know how to do: hate," she noted, encouraging Sánchez: "Of course it's worth it and we need you, president and general secretary."
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