València (EFE).- They claim that being pregnant is not a disease, but a happy and exciting circumstance that, although it coincides with the electoral campaign, can be combined with an agenda full of events and incidentally give visibility to the need for better and Greater reconciliation policies in Spain.
They are María José Catalá, the PP candidate for mayor of Valencia, who is 33 weeks pregnant with her second child and will give birth just after the elections, and the vice president of the Generalitat Council, Aitana Mas, head of the list from Compromís to Les Corts in Alicante, whose second child will be born in October.
A boy with the command rod under his arm
María José Catalá (València, 1981), who on May 28 could become mayor of Valencia and is also the head of the PP list for Les Corts for Valencia, explains to EFE that she is “privileged”, because she is having a good pregnancy and he feels “very good, with a lot of energy” and physically “very strong”: right now “I am a cannon”, he proclaims.
She jokes that she would like her son to come into the world “with a command rod under the bass”, and recalls the moment in which she called the national president of the party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to inform him of her pregnancy: “I told him: ‘look Just know that you have a pregnant candidate and don’t worry about anything’”.
Men “this generates a little more panic, as if to say: but are you going to be able to?”, explains the also general secretary of the PP of the Valencian Community, who claims that women should not give up their personal lives for the sake of professional life: “Doing so would be a mistake,” he considers.
Catalá, who has a 22-month-old daughter and is expecting her second child around mid-June, admits that the final stretch of the elections is “very demanding” and requires feeling “happy” and “strong”, although for now it is coming to everything. “I go out in the morning to eat the electoral campaign,” she asserts.
The gynecologist follows him on Instagram
She assures that she is not “at all overwhelmed” by the fact that the electoral campaign coincides with the final stretch of the pregnancy, because being the second she knows how to “get to everything” and feel good, although she admits that in her team they are “very overwhelmed ” in case she goes into labor “at any moment”.
“My doctor has put on Instagram to follow me” and see “what face I make” because “yes, he is a bit worried, but I am not,” says Catalá, who assures: “I know that things are going to go well, that first they will to come the elections and the inauguration and then the baby will be born well and that’s it ”.
She affirms that if she becomes mayoress of Valencia, she wants to throw herself “quickly” into her city, for which she may take “a smaller leave”, and congratulates the number two of the Consell on her pregnancy, while she is happy that the fact that there are pregnant policies becomes normalized.
Water, food and fan in the bag
The Vice President of the Valencian Government, Aitana Mas (Crevillent, Alicante, 1990), stresses to EFE that politics is “a normal area” in which women who opt for the life project of motherhood do so “naturally” and regardless of his public position, and in his case he was “especially excited” to have a second child who would not take too long with the first, 20 months old.
“For me it has always been a mistake to stop my personal life for a professional project,” says the Compromís candidate, who affirms that in this electoral campaign, which she arrives in the second trimester of pregnancy, she will try to be “at the bottom of the canyon ”, as she has always been and as she deserves this appointment, only pregnant, “with a little more belly”.
With the precaution of carrying in her bag in these intense weeks of the campaign “always water, something to eat just in case and, essential, a fan”, Aitana Mas points out that she has already met people who “rub coupons on her belly and tenths”, and he jokes about passing the ballot paper over his belly to see if it gives him “luck”.
Mas congratulates her political adversary and wishes her that the pregnancy goes “very well”, although she does issue a warning: although it seems that she “follows” him in pregnancies, she hopes that Catalá does not have a third child: “I already with I can’t three.”
The entry When the dream of being a mother coincides with elections: pregnant women in the campaign was first published in EFE Noticias.