Valencia (EFE).- The Minister of Science and Innovation and head of the Congress list for Valencia in the 23J elections, Diana Morant, denounced in an interview with EFE the “reactionary wave” based on “the construction of a motive of hate irrational” and defends the promotion of the Mediterranean Corridor, the modernization of water systems and the guarantee by law of maximum terms on health waiting lists.
QUESTION: What is at stake on July 23?
ANSWER: On 23J we risk our health, dignity, economic stability and even happiness. I would say that on 23J we risked everything. Because this reactionary wave is based on the manipulation of public opinion and the construction of an irrational hate motive. Below that there is no future program. They are just wanting to destroy. That’s why we risk everything.
Q: Will it influence the quality of life of Valencians if the Government of Spain and that of the Valencian Community are of the same or different sign?
A: The sign of the Government of the Valencian Community is already going to influence the quality of life of Valencians. Cuts that will affect health and public education, elimination of the term gender violence, silence on climate change, silence on equality… I sincerely believe that, if the Government of Spain is of the same sign as of 23J, it will drastically worsen life of the vast majority of Valencian men and women, and also of the rest: of each and every one of the Spaniards.
Priorities
Q: Tell me three matters that in your opinion should be a priority at the beginning of the next legislature.
A: Strategic autonomy, reindustrialization and fiscal justice.
Q: What would you like the first law to be approved in the legislature that arises from 23J to be about?
A: The PSOE will guarantee by law maximum terms on the waiting lists. We are the Party of Public Health. Faced with the cuts and privatizations of the right, we are going to guarantee that public services are guaranteed rights of quality.
Q: Two Valencian demands for which you want to fight for the next four years.
A: First of all, we are going to continue prioritizing the Mediterranean Corridor, which Rajoy stopped. The government of Pedro Sánchez has accelerated its development at an unprecedented rate: 76% of the Corridor’s layout is under construction, 89% projected and 100% of the studies carried out.
On the other hand, we will continue with our committed commitment of almost 600 million euros for the modernization of water systems and guarantee water forever. With the Government of Pedro Sánchez, more water has been transferred than in the last years of the PP Government: never have there been so many resources destined to invest in water. You have to keep working on it, these improvements cannot be reversed.
Q: Will the new regional financing model be a reality in the next legislature?
A: It depends on the PP. The great consensuses need the responsibility of a party that in this legislature we have not had. We have a legislature with the General Council of the Judiciary blocked by the PP. For the PP, regional financing is not a priority and less for Vox, which wants to end the autonomies.
Q: And will it be possible to recover the Valencian Civil Code?
A: Valencian civil law must be recognized in the Constitution as other regional rights have been recognized. What we Valencian men and women are asking for is a matter of justice that, in addition, other autonomous communities have. The Socialist Party has been proposing constitutional reforms in its program for more than 10 years, already in 2008 Ximo Puig proposed a broad reform that also included Valencian Civil Law. The PP must make a broad reflection to be able to convert a political system stagnant in 78 and adapt it to the needs of today.
sexist violence
Q: Is there sexist violence? Two specific measures that should be insisted on in this area.
A: Gender is a social construction and scientific evidence. There are researchers who have spent 30 years working on defining what gender is. Gender exists and there is inequality due to gender issues and its maximum expression is gender violence. Therefore, to deny gender violence, sexist violence and sexist terrorism is to deny the scientific evidence of their existence. This denialism does not surprise us from Vox but it surprises us a lot and to the bad of the PP that is assuming its postulates.
Measures: education, to change the social and relational model, and protection of victims.
Q: Is the necessary action being taken against climate change?
A: The climate crisis is the great emergency that we are facing today, globally. The Government of Spain is committed to the ecological transition, which is the only thing that can allow us to preserve the planet. Much work remains to be done. The energy model must be changed and our growth must be sustainable. You have to get on the boat of renewable energy, something in which Spain can become a leader. And we must seek collective solutions and work multilaterally. But we know that all this is not going to happen with a PP-Vox government. Basically because they think that climate change does not exist. Like gender violence.
Q: How will your party’s electoral campaign be?
A: To begin with, a clean campaign, based on facts and realities, not on lies, insults and manipulation. And, of course, a campaign focused on what matters to us: improving the lives of people, of all people. This legislature has been full of adversities, of emergencies. A pandemic, a war in Europe, a volcano, droughts, fires. We have worked tirelessly to protect society and to allow our country to move forward despite everything. We will do exactly the same in the campaign. The same, with the same tenacity and the same enthusiasm. EFE