Carla Aliño | Valencia (EFE).- The president of the PP of the Valencian Community, Carlos Mazón, says that the only thing that would “save” the Botanic Government, after two legislatures, is the regional secretary of Tourism, the socialist Francesc Colomer.
“In fact, I would propose that he continue in my government,” says the also candidate of his party for the Presidency of the Generalitat in the elections on May 28, at the Breakfasts of the EFE Agency at the Valencia Bar Association.
For Mazón, Colomer has been the only member of the government made up of the PSPV, Compromís and Unides Podem that has “faced an outrage” such as the introduction of the tourist tax in the Valencian Community, and he is a person with whom he, as president of the Provincial Council of Alicante, he has worked well.
In this sense, he has said that if he is elected president of the Generalitat, he would give Colomer the opportunity to be “the one who repeals the tourism tax”, he would even let him sign the decree repealing the tax.
The Council, the Community’s main problem
The leader of the PPCV considers that the main problem of the Valencian Community is its government, and does not understand what data the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, is looking at to ensure that all the social and economic indicators are now better.
He affirms that in eight years of government, this Council has been “incapable of launching a single social or officially protected housing; it has more than 30,000 seniors on the waiting list for a place in a residence; the surgical waiting list only goes up and not even 20% of the Edificant plan for the construction of schools has been implemented”.
In addition, he adds, “they have forgotten about 160,000 Valencians who needed the thermal bonus; Of the 24,000 young people who have applied for the rental voucher, only 4,000 have seen the application approved, but none of them have received it yet, and there is an absolute collapse with renewable energies.
“What data are we talking about?” he wonders, and assures that “the best data that Puig can offer is that it has the most expensive government in history” or “the largest number of accused or prosecuted in the government, with one especially bloody that is the one of fourteen defendants in the Department of Equality, among them the general director of the Minor, for covering up the abuses of a minor”.
He also criticizes that the Consell is late in acting on the increase in the price of the shopping cart and with a proposal, the consumer voucher, that it is not known “how it will be processed, when it will be and what the system will be” , and that, in his opinion, is not “very far from some electoral smell.”
He assures that the Provincial Council of Alicante, “with a budget 100 times less” than that of the Generalitat, has already put 38 million into circulation to help citizens with the shopping basket.
Ten ministries and half of advisors
Mazón considers it “a mockery” to launch a Department of Innovation and at the same time promote a Digitization Agency, as well as having a Department of Transparency and a Housing Department that has made “zero public housing.”
He advances that in case of being president, he will convert some ministries into general directorates so as not to have more than ten ministries, and will reduce by half the number of senior advisors that the Generalitat currently has and which, according to what he says, exceeds 350.
One of his first measures as head of the Consell will be to “lower taxes for everyone”, with retroactive effect from January 1, 2023, but he will also take advantage of the summer to launch, starting in September, free education from 0 to 3, “without bureaucracy and with freedom to choose the center”.
Financing and water
The leader of the PPCV also assures that the first thing he would do with issues such as regional financing and water would be to take them seriously because “in eight years they have only wanted to deceive us,” he affirms.
He reproaches Ximo Puig for “presenting himself in the elections saying that he would be the president who would bring the new financing to the Valencian Community and eight years later he has broken his promise”, and accuses him of having given up defending the Tajo Segura transfer.
“We have a man who is Pedro Sánchez sticking the knife into the Tajo-Segura and a man who is Ximo Puig who deceives and applauds,” denounces Mazón, who assures that in this autonomy you have to choose between PSOE or water.
Precautionary measures
The only solution he sees at the moment is for the Supreme Court to accept the precautionary measures requested by the Alicante Provincial Council to paralyze an increase in the ecological flow of the Tagus, which he says does not have any report or objective study.
Mazón also regrets that the Generalitat has not even wanted to meet with him to study the possibility of filing a joint appeal against the state decree that cuts the transfer, something that he has only understood once he has seen the appeal presented by the Generalitat, because ” It does not ask to avoid the great hack” that involves raising the ecological flow. EFE