València (EFE).- The acting president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, has denounced the “counter-reform” of the right and the extreme right after the elections of May 28 for which “in eight hours they have tried to ruin the reputation built in eight years” in the Valencian Community.
This was stated in his speech at the Mediterranean Tribune Europe Forum, in which he presented Valencia and Science Minister, Diana Morant, at the head of the Congress list, and lamented that PP and Vox intend to “blow up the advances and consensus of the last 20 years, as substantial as the pact against gender violence”.
“What happens in Valencia?”
“What happens in Valencia? There was a time when that question was synonymous with negativity, the result of corruption, scandal and waste, unfair to all Valencians”, highlighted the acting president, who has claimed that the outgoing Council that he has chaired since 2015 it has “recovered the reputation” of the Community.
In this sense, he regretted that “today the answer to that question is once again tinged with black and white”: “We have returned to the front pages at the speed of light due to the conflict, the division, when not because of the grotesque”.
“What happens in Spain?”
On the other hand, Puig has wondered “what is happening in Spain” and has responded that it is “a country with a record of employment, with the best economic and social data and at the same time an insulting noise, which is reduced to ‘Sánchez or Spain ‘”.
He has denounced “the absence of real debate on real problems”, which “generates a monster”, and has asked himself “who fits in that Spain” of the “cheating dilemma”.
“Antiespaña was called the Republic that brought us democracy and freedom, or President Zapatero, with the conquest of social rights and the defeat of terrorism,” he defended.
The right “tries to blow up the advances”
For the leader of the PSPV, the right-wing “counter-reform proposal” “tries to blow up the advances, consensus, the 20-year pacts, as substantial as the pact against gender violence” and represents “the anti-science that takes us out of the consensus world European”, in addition to “anti-coexistence”.
“They seem to say: ‘polarize, that something remains’, and yet another policy is possible”, considered Puig, for whom “the question on July 23 is what Spain do we want”.
In his opinion, it is already intuited “what is the alternative, what is the other way to a progressive exit to the crisis that has occurred from the Government of Spain and the Generalitat”.
“In a few days we are looking at the alternative and it is a dystopian trip: in eight hours they have tried to ruin the reputation built in eight years”, highlighted Ximo Puig, who has concluded that the decision is between “looking at the 30s of the last century or to 2030”.
“Divorces have to do with heartbreak, not with violence”
In statements after Morant’s intervention, the acting president, asked about the statements of the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who said that the Vox candidate Carlos Flores, convicted of sexist violence, had “a tough divorce”, has qualified those words as “regrettable”.
“Here, from the pact against gender violence, a very broad social agreement had been achieved and we should all be aware that the worst problem that this society has is sexist violence, the murder of women for being women,” he defended. Puig.
Questioning reality is “undignified and indecent”
For the socialist leader, questioning that reality “is unfortunate, pernicious, unworthy and indecent.”
“It seems good to me that in other areas, such as Extremadura, they try to clearly reflect that everything is not valid to access power,” he indicated, referring to the decision of the PP candidate from Extremadura not to agree with Vox.
Thus, he has assured that the first parliamentary action of the PSPV “will be to put on the table in Les Corts the decision to renew, expand and strengthen the pact against gender violence.”
The PP “was aware of who Mr. Flores was”
“It hurt me a lot to hear Mr. Feijóo talk about a difficult divorce: it has nothing to do with it; Divorces have that difficulty of heartbreak, but they have nothing to do with violence, they have nothing to do with what happened here ”, he affirmed.
For Puig, the PP “was aware of who Mr. Flores was because on two occasions he gave him his confidence in two areas of responsibility”, for which he has reproached him for his “cynicism”.
“Really, the problem for the Valencian Community is not the extreme right, it is the Popular Party, which has embraced the ideas of the extreme right on so many occasions,” he concluded.