Valencia, (EFE).- The PP and Vox have held their first meeting on Wednesday to advance in the development of the government pact reached in the Valencian Community, in which the structure of the regional executive has not yet been discussed, although the future president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has indicated that Education and Health are “keys” for the PP.
In the meeting, the campaign manager, Miguel Barrachina, participated again, on behalf of the PP, as in the meeting yesterday in which the pact was closed, and the deputies Laura Chuliá and María Gómez have joined, while On behalf of Vox, the bullfighter Vicente Barrera has repeated and the deputy David García and the coordinator of the Vox group, Juan Pablo Cruz, have joined.
First measures in education
Mazón has indicated in statements to Cadena Cope that they have not yet begun to talk about the division of portfolios between PP and Vox -at the moment it is known that there will be 10 Departments, two less than now- and has asked to be “respectful of the times”, although he has insisted that he considers “Education and Health” key, and that he has a person for Education in mind.
Likewise, it has advanced some of the first measures that will be adopted in educational matters, such as eliminating the Office of Linguistic Rights (which it has referred to as the “Linguistic Police Office”), reinforcing inspection, “putting an end to the Valencian process ” in the classroom and guarantee “educational freedom”.
He has also criticized that the language requirement has reached the Health Department and that to consolidate a position as a doctor “the Valencian counts the same as the doctorate”. “Now we have found out that the cataracts are operated in Spanish or Valencian, instead of good or bad”, he stated.
Mazón has assured that his government partner is “perfectly aware” that the PP has 40 deputies in the Valencian Parliament and Vox has 13, so the leading role corresponds to the popular ones.
Reactions to the PP-VOX pact
The reactions to the PP-Vox pact have continued this Wednesday, such as those of the president and leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has said in Esradio that the PSOE has “no legitimacy to give lessons” to the PP on the pacts that it leads to out his party, after having agreed with the independentistas and with Bildu the Government of Spain.
Feijóo has said that the agreement between PP and Vox to govern the Valencian Community was made after the party led by Santiago Abascal agreed to withdraw Carlos Flores, convicted of mistreatment, from the government and that it was the only possibility to avoid having to repeat the elections.
The Minister of Finance and Deputy Secretary General of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, who has made the PP ugly that “far from a red line” is laying out “a red carpet” for Vox.
The head of the list of the PSOE to the Congress for Valencia and Minister of Science, Diana Morant, has lamented that for the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, “repealing sanchismo is embracing the extreme right and throwing himself into the arms of Vox”, while the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, has considered that Feijóo has made it “clear” that he aspires to a PP-Vox coalition government in Spain: “It is evident”, he has stressed.
Guarantee social rights
From the ranks of Podemos, the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has warned of the risk that with future regional and municipal governments between PP and Vox, social rights will become “alms” and has demanded that they be guaranteed because, she has said , “they are not second-rate”.
In a Valencian key, the acting president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, has affirmed that the pact “was an announced story” and that he is concerned about “the impact that the extreme right will have on the regional government”, although he considers that “the problem It is the PP, which left this land ruined”.
The acting mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó (Compromís), has also shown his surprise at the speed of the agreement and has warned that it is “a very serious warning to all those people who are progressive, centrist and democratic”.