Valencia (EFE) whom they have honored as “the best mayoress in the world”.
At the Science Museum, where the main leaders of the PP headed by the party leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and also the former presidents José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, have met, messages of support for María José Catalá have been repeated to that on May 28 she be mayoress of Valencia and Carlos Mazón to be the president of the Generalitat.
Thus, the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has inaugurated the act by assuring that Catalá will be the next mayoress of Valencia, an “emblem” city and that it is “in the DNA” of the PP, and as an example of this she has cited the ” mythical closing of the campaign» by José María Aznar in Mestalla in 1996 and the inter-municipal meetings held in the Valencian capital in 2001 and 2014.
He has also ensured that Mazón will be the next tenant of the Palau de la Generalitat to “slam the scandals” of former vice president Mónica Oltra and those of the president, Ximo Puig, in addition to recovering “good governance” of the Valencian Community and ” the lost years» with the government of the left.
The PP honors Rita Barberá
But the great protagonist of this Saturday has been an absent person: Rita Barberá, the one who was mayor of Valencia between 1991 and 2015 and who died a year after leaving the command rod, whose party has reconciled with her with a tribute in which images and statements of her have been shown.
Former President Mariano Rajoy unleashed applause from the audience when he confessed that many still miss the “energy and vitality” of Barberá, who “transformed” Valencia and put it on the map, and who “slandered, harassed, denounced and They made his life unfairly miserable” because they couldn’t beat him at the polls.
Rajoy has affirmed that his “indelible legacy” can be seen throughout the city, in the “generous and joyful mark” of an “unforgettable” mayoress, and has asked that when Catalá is mayor the figure of Barberá has “the recognition it deserves”. , because it is a cause “of the true ones”.
José María Aznar has also referred to his “dear” Rita Barberá and has asked that this city, in which he has spent a lot of time, has to “return to being part of Spain’s strategic project” and not “the residue of separatism ridiculous”, for which he wishes “total success” to the Valencian PP.
Aznar recalled that it was during his tenure that the Madrid-València highway was completed, and he confessed that the only thing he has “nailed down” from his time in government has been not being able to move forward with the National Hydrological Plan, while he has asked – and This is how it was done – that at the end of the act the regional anthem was played, “to offer new glories to Spain”.
“Longed” mayor
Gamarra has assured that the “longed for” mayoress is “very present” in this act, while the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, has affirmed that within 111 days Catalá will be “the mayoress of Spain”, the “continuer” de Barberá to return to this city “prestige, growth and prosperity”.
Mazón has confessed that she has been “excited” by the tribute of the entire PP and the municipalism to Barberá, a “deserved and necessary recognition” to whom she will continue to “inspire”, and the former minister Celia Villalobos has referred to her as “the best mayor in the world”, who was “destroyed by a party that does not deserve to govern”.
For the former mayor of Cádiz Teófila Martínez, Barberá was “a benchmark” and from her she learned that “with the truth you can get everywhere”, even if you have to “suffer as she suffered”, while the former mayor of Zaragoza Luisa Fernand Rudi has defended that it was “very important” for the PP.
All these former mayors demonstrated, according to the PP campaign spokesman, Borja Sémper, greatness and management capacity and broke glass ceilings, a collective work that “cannot be tampered with” or patrimonialized by anyone.
