If 28-M brings about a political change and electoral cycle in the Valencian Community, it will be with PP and Vox in the equation. This is what all the polls point to, despite the fact that the president of the Valencian PP and candidate for the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, publicly avoids for the moment a scenario of a government pact with the party of Santiago Abascal. However, Mazón puts him in any case conditions to sit down to negotiate.
He did so yesterday in an informative meeting with EL MUNDO, where he insisted on his idea of "governing alone with a sufficient majority." That is to say, even with a monocolor and minority executive... and the external support of Vox in the Valencian Parliament. An option that has been considered in recent weeks, especially as a result of the break with Vox by the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Mazón has thus entered the pre-campaign, marking distances from Vox, even appealing to the useful vote when all the polls also predict the debacle -and disappearance- of Ciudadanos: "Which is the only party that guarantees change in the Valencian Community, that most does he look like the Valencians and that he can beat Pedro Sánchez?", he asked himself yesterday in the Madrid capital.
Although he avoided answering the question of whether Genoa will have the last word in a hypothetical post-electoral pact -Alberto Núñez Feijóo was among the attendees-, Mazón wanted to mark his own profile and make his "limits" clear. In this sense, he admitted that if he had to sit down to negotiate with Vox -a supporter, for example, of recentralizing powers-, the conditions that this party would have to accept would be "respect for the Valencian Statute of autonomy and the defense of our identity". The PP candidate, who even appealed to the fight against climate change, declared himself "autonomist and Valencian".
In fact, he recovered the promise of a law on identity signs like the one approved by the last PP government with Alberto Fabra, and which was one of the first regulations repealed by the tripartite government of Ximo Puig. "By historical right, the Senyera is the only flag that does not bow to anyone," said Mazón, while criticizing the Consell de Puig for showering entities considered Catalan with up to 10 million euros. The norm, in fact, is conceived by the PP in contrast to the so-called 'Països Catalans' which, according to Mazón, articulate the cultural and identity policy of the current Valencian tripartite.
"My identity is not separatist or dangerous," Mazón made clear, who said he felt "very Spanish and very Valencian." And, transferred this to the educational level, the popular candidate signed up for Feijóo's "cordial bilingualism", to ensure that families will be able to freely choose an education in Spanish, but also in Valencian.
According to Mazón, what will be decided in the next May elections - which for the PP are practically a plebiscite for Pedro Sánchez - is simple: "Continuity and conformism or the social and political change that only the PP now leads."
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