Carlos Mazón did not have a political godfather who would lead him to public life. He did not even need it to know which side he wanted to drink from: just after reaching the age of majority, he went to the headquarters of the Popular Party to request affiliation. He wanted to be a singer by profession, a passion that he repaid as a soloist in the band 'Marengo' with which he appeared at Eurovision in 2011. The man from Alicante was among the top thirty-nine selected in the casting.
Music is his frustrated profession and, nevertheless, today he claims to be where he wants to be: on the political front line, being the popular candidate for the Valencian Community. On May 28, Carlos Mazón aspires to 'sing' victory against the socialist Ximo Puig, one of the strongest and most rebellious barons of Pedro Sánchez and under the magnifying glass of corruption.
The singer, politician and lawyer obtained his first public position at the age of 25, when he joined the Government of Eduardo Zaplana, where he served as Director General of the Valencian Youth Institute (IVAJ).. In 2003 he became the General Director of Commerce and Consumption of the Generalitat Valenciana and in 2007 he served as fourth vice president of the Provincial Council of Alicante and provincial deputy for Cooperation. At the age of two, he moved away from political life to become managing director of the Alicante Chamber of Commerce.
A decade later, the then president of the PP, Pablo Casado, recalled him to name him president of the Alicante Province Council. Already in 2021 he was proclaimed president of the Popular Party of the Valencian Community (PPCV), a position in which he has remained since then, even with the change of leadership. Alberto Núñez Feijóo respected the Casadista candidate in whom he will even turn in these municipal and regional elections, traveling up to three times to the Valencian Community during the campaign.
Carlos Mazón has no other ambition outside his land than the presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana. If he manages to recover the position that the right held for 20 years, until it was taken from him by leftist forces in 2015, the first thing he will do is eliminate the death tax. Also, he will bet on a new law on educational freedom, a reform of the health system that includes more doctors, eliminating the language requirement.
His first great adventure was -and still is- being a father. He declares himself to be passionate about Torcuato Fernández Miranda, whose secret architecture of the Spanish Transition he seeks to discover. As a child he was hooked on Mortadelo y Filemón and the last book he devoured was El hombre en busca de sentido, by Víctor Frankl. A few days before the appointment with the polls, Mazón faces the candidacy with the dignity learned in his last book and the smile of the comics.