The PP knows that a lot is at stake in the Valencian Community, it is no coincidence that its national president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, visits the region for the second time in four days. “I have to thank the PP of the Valencian Community for the act last Sunday, it has meant a great increase in self-esteem,” the leader of the popular party said this morning to his party partner and candidate for the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón.
Feijóo visited the Cultural Center of the Bancaja Foundation this morning, where he was able to visit an exhibition by the Valencian painter Joaquín Sorolla, and offer one of his latest campaign interventions before well-known and historical members of the party such as the former Minister of Economy, Gerardo Camps, Vicente Betoret, Verónico Marcos, Laura Torrado or Eusebio Monzó. He has also previously visited the Central Market of the city, accompanied by Mazón and by the candidate for Mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá.
In his speech, Feijóo made reference, although only in passing, to the three major central issues for the Valencian Community, about which the President of the Government and PSOE Secretary General, Pedro Sánchez, made no reference at all during the rally in Valencia last Saturday. They are, of course, regional financing, water and railway infrastructure.
Feijóo with Carlos Mazón and María José Catalá this morning at the Central Market of Valencia PPCV
Regarding the first, he has assured that the financing of the Valencian Community “is not fair”, and has criticized that some governments have executed their entire budget until the month of May “so that the next one has nothing left.” In this sense, Feijóo has joked that yesterday he told Mazón by message that it gives him “the feeling” that Ximo Puig is not going to leave him “a lot of money” when, in case of victory, he reaches the Valencian government after the elections of this Sunday.
Feijóo has indicated that Mazón’s response to that comment was: “Well, from December I will talk to you”, before which he has indicated that having an “optimistic” president is necessary to manage the finances of the Valencian Community. “My friendship with Carlos Mazón is going to be expensive, but I am delighted,” said the Galician at the possibility that both occupy the central government and the Generalitat.
He has also cited that the hydraulic and water policy of Spain “has discriminated” against the Valencian Community “for a long time”, and that the priorities of railway infrastructures “have not been in accordance with the importance” of this land in the economic and population group from the country.
On the other hand, he has assured that he is “very happy, satisfied and proud” of the party in the Valencian Community and for him it would be “an honor” to return to Valencia with María José Catalá as mayoress -“València has a feminine name and needs a woman at the front”- and Carlos Mazón as president.
Feijóo has made an appeal not to miss out on “the historic opportunity” represented by the elections on May 28, of which he has been convinced that Catalá will emerge as mayoress of Valencia (she has had a lapse and has said Barcelona first) and Mazón as president of the Generalitat, since they are “the only expectation that there is a new political moment” in Spain.
He has insisted on working, because they have not yet won even though they have “great expectations and the best polls”, and he has opined that “it would already be sad” if, after all the road traveled, “when you can see the Cathedral of Santiago not enter the Portico de la Gloria; there would be no point in not going through it”.
The change “begins in the Valencian Community and at the feet of Sorolla”, stated the president of the PPCV and candidate to preside over the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, referring to the exhibition that houses the building where the event was held, the headquarters of the Bancaja Foundation, which they have visited below.
Mazón has assured that the “desire for change” did not enter them a fortnight ago, when the campaign began, but that the Valencian people have already proven the “fair suffering to open a new stage and turn the page”, which will begin when the Sunday “crystallize the change” and start “everything”.
“Let’s not give Pedro Sánchez a blank endorsement this Sunday to continue to ignore the Valencian Community,” requested the popular candidate, who stressed that they aspire to “star in change in Spain” and thanked Feijóo for “complicity” with the role that this land deserves.
For her part, María José Catalá has warned that “this is not the time for experiments”, but that on Sunday we must think “above the ideology of melancholy” and know that the “useful vote is necessary”: the ballots do not they can go “to a blind alley, it is necessary that they add up and concentrate the vote on the PP”.
