Carla Aliño | Valencia (EFE) , and they are “letting people down”.
In the Breakfasts of the EFE Agency at the Valencia Bar Association, Mazón attributes the increase in extremism in these formations to “an electoral strategy”, and considers it “a serious error”, more social than electoral.
He believes that Podemos “is trying to polarize itself even more because it knows that it is going straight to an electoral precipice”, and stresses that the strategy of “trying to overcome the bad results by setting fire to social debates” is a “very old trick from the communist manual”.
However, he regrets that “the classic and sensible PSOE with whom you could talk” has “become a sanchista”, thereby “disappointing the classic PSOE voters and the sensible social democracy that has always existed in this country and that there should continue to be.”
In this sense, the leader of the PPCV defends that voters go to the regional and municipal elections on May 28 “with whatever mood they want” because they have “every right in the world to vote in the key of their neighborhood or to get Pedro Sánchez a red card if they feel like it ”.
He affirms that his obligation is to present to the citizens a new model for the Valencian Community, but not to tell them in what key they should vote, and points out that “directing the vote is serious, but directing the feelings prior to reflecting on the vote is a lack of respect” to the citizens.
rule alone
Mazón affirms that the PPCV works to consolidate an electoral victory that allows it to govern alone, and sees that every day they are “closer to that possibility”, since they are an option that is gaining “more followers” daily and does not stop detecting ” the desire to change” that exists in the Community.
“Concentrating the options for change in the Popular Party seems the most sensible thing to do if one really wants to change things,” he assures, and refuses to specify whether he would be willing to govern with Vox because his aspiration, he insists, is to govern alone, against those who propose to continue with a “concoction of parties”.
He believes that a lone government of the PP “is perfectly capable of being able to dialogue every day in Les Corts Valencianes and of being able to find points of support to move forward”, and advocates overcoming that “culture of blocks” where the parties do not speak on a daily basis and initiatives are rejected just for coming “from the block across the street.”
“If I receive a Compromís initiative that is good for the Community, I will support it, but I also ask that if I launch an initiative that is good, the rest of the parties also support it,” he says.
Mazón: It will be the citizenry “the one that sets the rules of the game”
In any case, he affirms that it will be the citizens of the Valencian Community “the one that sets the rules of the game” with their vote in the elections and the one that sets the limits on the government options, and not the reflections that can be made a priori , “that lead nowhere”.
Mazón does not feel extra pressure when the national president of his party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, says that in the Valencian Community the PP only needs to win, but rather shares his words and wants to “increase the pressure.”
In this sense, he explains that in the same way that he wants Valencia CF “to play in the Champions League and not avoid relegation”, in the PP, “which is the only alternative for the Valencian Community to get going” , they have to be “as demanding” as they can with themselves.
The same message for all voters, according to Mazón
The popular candidate for the Generalitat defends that his party offers the same thing to all voters, whether they have voted for the party they have voted for previously or have not voted for: “a center and meeting space” and “a government without prejudice” that will govern “for all”.
To do this, it will propose some lists in which there will be no “laboratory profiles” nor will anyone be required to have a party card. “They will be very open lists, with many people from different origins and with different characteristics,” he points out.
Defense of Valencian civil law
The leader of the PPCV assures that his party, both at the regional and national level, is in favor of Valencian civil law, but acknowledges that from the national leadership of the PP there is “a lot of fear of opening the constitutional melon with gentlemen like Bildu, Esquerra Republicana and other dangerous companies, such as the PNV”.
He affirms that in the PPCV they do not share these doubts, and they are “in the middle of the work phase” with their national leadership so that they understand that “now is a perfectly opportune, necessary and urgent moment” to be able to include this issue in the Constitution.
