The PP of the Valencian Community has not been so lively since the Valencian leg of the Gürtel case broke out back in 2009. “In the PP the party never ends,” Ricardo Costa, the former general secretary of Francisco Camps, even said when they demanded that he resign due to the first revelations of illegal financing that ended in condemnation by the Supreme Court. Sixteen years later, it seems that the party in Carlos Mazón’s PP has just begun. And, surely, the music and the drinks will arrive without Carlos Mazón as president of the Valencian PP and the Generalitat. Although regarding this second position there are doubts that Mazón will leave it so easily, due to the large number of vested interests that exist around him and because, if he does not call elections, the current president of the Generalitat will not be able to receive a salary of 70,000 euros per year for the next 15 years. Little joke, and a reason to continue resisting despite pressure from Genoa to leave due to his disastrous management of the dana and his constant lies.
At this moment, and given the power vacuum that Carlos Mazón’s political situation has generated, everyone in command in the Valencian PP is moving. The first to come to the fore was the president of the Valencia Provincial Council, Vicente Mompó. After a dinner held this Friday in Benidorm, attended by Mompó, the president of the Castelló Provincial Council, Marta Barrachina, the president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Toni Pérez, and the general secretary of the PPCV, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, the attendees would have agreed to launch Mompó as Mazón’s successor for the 2027 elections and Pérez Llorca to finish the legislature as head of the Consell. Some sources claim that Elías Bendodo, general coordinator of the PP, was on the phone, while others maintain that in Genoa they were not aware.
The reality is that, when asked by this newspaper, sources from the PP leadership assured that they are not aware of the proposal of the Valencian barons. What’s more, throughout yesterday no one from the national leadership referred to the movements that are taking place in the Valencian Community. This Monday, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has convened a steering committee to which Carlos Mazón, Vicente Mompó and other Valencian leaders must attend, such as Esteban González Pons and María José Catalá, who this Saturday returned from an official trip to New York as mayor of Valencia.
In that sense, Catalá seemed until this Saturday the first option in Genoa as a PP candidate for the Generalitat in 2027. Being a deputy, she could also assume the leadership of the Consell in case Mazón did not resist public and judicial pressure. But these latest movements by her party colleagues, of which she has not been a part, could leave her out of the race, from which she had always wanted to stay out. On this issue, Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s team has not said anything either.
Given these movements and the lack of control generated among party cadres and militants, Juanfran Pérez Llorca had to send a message this Saturday to all the deputies of the Corts Valencianes and the workers in which he asked for calm. “Mazón is still the president,” the message read, in a futile attempt to stop the confusion. In the letter he sent to the WhatsApp groups, the general secretary of the PPCV also said: “What appears on television is speculation, we are not choosing a candidate.” And the general secretary of the PPCV was in the Benidorm conspiracy.
There are those in the party who think that Mompó’s movement is orchestrated by Mazón and his team to protect his replacement and control the timing and distribution of power, leaving out Catalá and other important figures of the conservatives. In fact, late this Saturday afternoon, the team of the president of the Generalitat leaked that Carlos Mazón could be considering bringing forward the regional elections, a decision that in Genoa they fear, since the left is very mobilized in the Valencian Community due to the disastrous management of the dana, and Vox is very grown.
There is no lifetime salary for Mazón without calling elections
Dissolving the Cortes and calling elections is the only thing that guarantees Mazón an almost lifelong salary of 15 years. But it is a solution that no one wants, except Mazón. It will be the currency with which the president of the Generalitat negotiates with Alberto Núñez Feijóo a dignified exit: a position in the Senate or in any institution in which he can take refuge for the next few years.
Camps, go for it
While the elites of the Valencian PP have opened the ban, the former president of the Generalitat Francisco Camps continues with his primary campaign among the militancy. Camps is preparing a massive event for December at the Bancaja Cultural Center in Valencia to present his plan for 2027. This Saturday, his team did not hide their indignation because the provincial barons are orchestrating a replacement for Mazón without counting on Genoa or the militancy. The same sources explain that, if the PP called a regional congress to support Vicente Mompó, Francisco Camps would appear. “And he has many options to win, the militancy is with Paco,” they point out.
Mazón is on a tightrope and there are many who think he may soon throw in the towel. Even more so when the statement by journalist Maribel Vilaplana this Monday may finish dismantling the defense of the president of the Generalitat regarding his management on the day of the dana. At the same time that Vilaplana testifies as a witness regarding the calls from Mazón and former councilor Salomé Pradas, the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo will be meeting in Genoa to decide the future of the Valencian PP and, who knows, if that of the Generalitat. The gamble was thrown.
Source: www.eldiario.es
