Carlos Mazón has witnessed the turbulent immediate past of the PP in the Valencian Community and perhaps for this reason he is a content, prudent and somewhat perplexed politician. In the gesture and in the speech. His own election as president of the PP in that community was preceded by the political beheading -in broad daylight, with witnesses and without remorse- of Isabel Bonig. The former president allowed her head to be cut off, but Mazón continued to live in the tumult. Those who raised him to leadership ended up expelled from Genoa with scandal.
The PP candidate for the Generalitat, host of the exaltation of Pablo Casado in the crowded Plaza de Toros -it really happened-, now plays the same role with Alberto Núñez Feijóo. On the shoulders of Carlos Mazón falls the historical mission of returning the PP of the Valencian Community to the power that his predecessors exercised in an absolute, exuberant and unapologetic way. In the community of Zaplana and his successor Camps the party never ended. Until corruption ate the PP. And until today.
At the pre-election breakfast organized by EL MUNDO, Mazón discreetly called corruption “mistakes”. Joaquín Manso, the director of this newspaper, had to clarify it with good judgment. There is a cleaner past that does accompany the Valencian PP candidate. Alberto Fabra, former president of the Generalitat, will head the list for Castellón. Fabra has returned to the youth rallying through the towns.
The host of the exaltation of Pablo Casado in the crowded bullring now plays the same role with Feijóo
Carlos Mazón was surrounded at the Madrid breakfast by numerous public officials of the PP and, above all, he was sheltered by the president of his party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The political future of both appears closely linked. The PP has turned the Valencian community into a touchstone for political change in the Government of Spain. Recovering the Valencian Generalitat, we will recover Spain. This is the reasoning in the national leadership of the PP. When this hypothesis is put before Mazón’s eyes, he reacts prudently. As if to say, don’t overwhelm me with so many expectations, let’s see if we’re going to be upset, or we won’t be able to celebrate the triumph that we expected like ripe fruit.
Because the issue is that Mazón is leading the polls for 28-M, but President Ximo Puig resists more than the PP expected. And furthermore, Vox seems to be still going strong as a radical protest vote. To achieve the objective of unseating Puig, Mazón will have to come to terms with Vox. And he has already clarified the candidate that he does not intend to abjure autonomy, nor common sense, nor climate change to sit down with Vox to negotiate.
“Sánchez commands, Puig obeys” is the Valencian version of Madrid’s “O Sánchez, or Spain” by Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Everyone in the PP wants to run against Sánchez.
Mazón is in the best position to be the next Valencian president and to redeem the PP from its sins
It happens that Mazón’s campaign message does not quite fit reality like a glove because Puig is not Sánchez. In no sense of the word. The Valencian president, like his socialist colleagues, have governed occupying the central position of the political board and do not provoke rejection even in the right part of the electorate. In the Valencian Community there are neither national nor Madrid political fevers.
The idea that Puig is an ally of the Catalan independence movement and communist radicalism doesn’t suit the Valencian president very well either. Likewise, the tie registered in the vote intention polls of the most strategic community on 28-M is due to these reasons. Which does not mean that Carlos Mazón is not in the best position to be the next Valencian president. He is. To redeem the PP from its sins and to help Feijóo achieve his goal before the end of the year.
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