The acting government of Ximo Puig has provoked the indignation of the Popular Party with two institutional statements that underline the most controversial points of the PP-Vox agreement. In its last two plenary sessions, the Botànic has taken the opportunity to declare the Generalitat against gender violence just a few days after the signing of the pact that will make Carlos Mazón president and where the term “domestic violence” is included, a message that the popular will take to the electoral board considering that they collect messages of “political propaganda”.
This Thursday, and on the occasion of the Pride Day celebration marches next Saturday, it focuses on LGTBI rights. It does so just two days after Náquera, the only council governed by Vox with the support of the PP, prohibited the display of rainbow flags in institutional buildings and rallies against sexist violence.
These two positions of the Consell expressed by the vice president and spokesperson, Aitana Mas, the PP considers that they are trying to “contaminate the electoral campaign of 23J by attacking the political formations that signed the agreement for a new government of the Generalitat” and, for this reason, it has presented a complaint to the Provincial Electoral Board of Valencia in which it requests that a disciplinary file be opened against Mas. Specifically, in his letter he assures that the message institutionalizes against gender violence, “in reality it served to attack the political formations PP and Vox signatories of the agreement for a new Government of the Generalitat”.
“The vice president and spokesperson, Aitana Mas, used the forum and her institutional position to deliver messages of a marked electoral nature with direct attacks on the Popular Party,” the complaint points out.
As explained by the PPCV campaign director, Miguel Barrachina, “it is immoral that a government in office, which is on its way out, dedicates itself to trying to influence the electoral campaign with partisan decisions that are out of place” and that the spokesperson for the Consell use the forum and your institutional position to spread messages of a marked electoral nature with direct attacks on the PP, violating the prohibition contained in the Electoral Law”.
“The PSPV and Compromís must cease their sectarian and partisan attitude now because it is illegal to use the Consell and its press conferences for their electoral campaign. They were already constantly warned by the electoral board during the regional campaign, and now that they are in office, they continue to use it without any modesty for their own partisan propaganda,” he insisted.
The statement on the occasion of the celebration of LGTBI Pride Day reviews the laws promoted by the Botànic and ends with a direct message to the new Council in which Vox will sit with three portfolios: “The next government must maintain the same level of dialogue and agreement with the LGTBI associative movement, as well as guaranteeing public services available to LGTBI people, their families and environment. The Valencian Community must continue to be a land of rights, respect and equality”.
For Vice President Mas, there is no intention of extracting “partisan revenue” from these statements. “The LGTBI declaration is made every year and we continue to function, yes, but this does not compromise the future but the present. As a government, we are not afraid to express that we must keep intact the rights that we have struggled to achieve and that the European Union recognizes,” said the spokeswoman, who leaves it up to the new Consell to qualify whether these rights are “in danger or not”. :”If that is going to change in the future, I am not the one who has to explain it”.
“Democratic administrations must act as such. You have to be up to the task. If they want to use the complaints to intimidate us, they will not succeed.. As the government that we still are, we have the responsibility to govern for everyone and to show concern about issues that have created social alarm.. We are not going to stop governing or lower our arms. We'll make a smooth transition. We continue to function without compromising the future, but committed to our policies until the last day,” he warned.
How long the Consell del Botànic will be in office is still unknown. Despite the fact that the Cortes will be constituted next Monday the 26th, there is no date for the investiture of Carlos Mazón as the new president. His wish is that it be “as quickly as possible” but the deadlines indicate that it could arrive the week of July 17, in the middle of the electoral campaign. Until then, Puig will preside over the Council, which will meet again next week and could do so up to two more times.