Alicante (EFE) , with more than 1,757 million euros mobilized during the last four years.
In a press conference in which he has taken stock of his management over the last four years, Mazón has claimed to have defended the people of Alicante “by tooth and nail” and has highlighted that the proof of this is “the legal actions” that he has undertaken to support Alicante farmers in defense of the Tajo-Segura transfer.
“A pride to belong to and have presided over the Provincial Council”
“I am leaving the Provincial Council, but I will never leave the province of Alicante, which makes me very proud to be a Valencian born in Alicante”, Mazón highlighted the day of his resignation as president.
The leader of the popular Valencians has highlighted that, “despite the decisions that have been made” in other administrations, “the Diputación has always wanted to be at the level of the province” and has affirmed that leaving this position “is not a happy news, even if it is thinking about tomorrow”.
“It has been a pride to belong to and have presided over the Provincial Council,” said Mazón, who explained that being president of the Provincial Council was an “incompatible” path with taking office as president of the Valencian Generalitat and has preferred to resign “out of institutional respect” .
Big plans unanimously launched
Thus, he has maintained that in these last four years Alicante “has experienced very serious fires, a very harsh Dana, the covid and the war in Ukraine”, for which it has worked “with the best of intentions and the greatest predisposition to dialogue ” to be able to combat all these challenges.
“I don’t think there have been many occasions with so many agreements in funds or budgets… I am not exaggerating if I say that all the great plans have been put into operation unanimously, a fact that fills this entire government team with honour,” he said. Mazón.
“Very harsh” underfinancing
Thus, he has said that he has fought “against very harsh under-financing by the central government and in the face of cultural grievance and the maintenance of improper powers of the Generalitat, which has led to having to make many decisions.”
In this regard, it has had an impact that it has mobilized 1,757 million during the legislature that have gone to help SMEs, Ukraine, farmers, to help tourism after the pandemic, to catering or to encourage demand through the voucher consumption.
He has also pointed out that one of his objectives has been to help the smaller town halls and has stated that “in order to claim water outside, you have to set an example inside” and the Provincial Council “has given it”. “No one can say that we have not given our best efforts,” he said.
Creation of a gender observatory
He has also referred to the aid to the municipalities affected by the fires “despite not having powers” or to social affairs, creating a gender observatory and preparing reports on LGTBIQ+ municipal policies that were made in the different towns of the province. .
Likewise, it has highlighted the cultural work of the Diputación through the exhibitions of the Etruscans, the Gladiators or the Warriors, exhibited in the Marq, while it has insisted on the abolition of the tax on economic activities or on promoted infrastructures, with the Palacio de Congresos de Elche and the one in Alicante: “Nobody else has done it but the Provincial Council”.