The control session with the president of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, in the Corts Valencianes this Thursday was angry and peppered with constant allusions to “No to war” and also “No to Mazón”. The president has raised the possible irregularity in the awarding of a VPP to a high-ranking Compromís official during the Botànic Government, but has evaded the request for the resignation of the mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcala, marred by the scandal of the Les Naus VPP complex, where PP politicians, family members and friends are owners of these protected apartments. The opposition has demanded that he expel former president Carlos Mazón following the request from the Catarroja judge that he be investigated for his management of the 29-O 2024 scandal and Pérez Llorca has disgraced Compromís for criticizing justice when he goes against former vice president Mónica Oltra.
The president, when asked by the socialist spokesperson José Muñoz about whether he will maintain his support for Mazón after the letter last week from the Catarroja judge, responded with “today we are not talking about housing?” in reference to the alleged irregularity detected in a former senior Compromís official in the Botànic Government, who acquired a VPP “when he had a salary of 60,000 euros.”
Pérez Llorca has acknowledged that there has been no control in the acquisition of homes – the most serious case is that of the Les Naus complex in Alicante, where politicians, family members and friends of the PP have been awarded – “but we are going to solve it.” And he has insisted, addressing the two opposition groups, PSPV and Compromís, which belonged to the Botánic Government until 2023, that what they have to do is try to clarify the facts “regardless of which party they belong to.”
The socialist Muñoz, in the absence of a response, has once again insisted to the president if he plans to keep Mazón. “He says he doesn’t like Mazón but he doesn’t dare. He keeps him in the seat, gives him a bonus for being spokesperson for a parliamentary commission and allows him to join the office of former presidents. The problem is that you don’t place just Mazón but your entire hard core,” he said in reference to José Manuel Cuenca, Santiago Lumbreras, Cayetano García or Maite Gómez. “The management of the dana took Mazón ahead but the management of the Mazón case “He’s going to take it from you,” Muñoz predicted while the Compromís group loudly chanted in the chamber “Barcala, resignation.”
Joan Baldoví, Ombudsman of Compromís, has also criticized the protection that Pérez Llorca provides to Mazón and he has reproached him for having a double standard and “criticizing justice” when he goes against former vice president Mónica Oltra and defending her when he goes against the former head of the Consell and PP deputy, Carlos Mazón. In addition, he has criticized that in the Valencian coalition they are “so worried” about keeping Mazón as a deputy and councilors such as Susana Camarero, Miguel Barrachina or José Antonio Rovira, while they continue “as puppets of Pedro Sánchez”: “What have you achieved in nine years for the Valencians? Nothing, that is the reality?”.
Llorca’s response comes shortly after a court in Valencia has opened an oral trial against the former vice president and former Minister of Equality during the Botànic government and her team in the case of the alleged cover-up of the sexual abuse of a minor under guardianship by her ex-husband between 2016 and 2017. This decision comes after being ordered by the Valencia Court and against the criteria of the Prosecutor’s Office.
“Why do we have to wait for a ruling from the TSJCV?” to expel Mazón, Baldoví has questioned after showing the exhibition in which the judge points out that the former president spent the entire afternoon of the dana in the booth of a restaurant, arrived at Cecopi around 8:30 p.m. “when there are hundreds of deaths” and went “the first one home using the driver.” And he stressed: “He doesn’t deserve to be here even one more minute.”
On the other hand, Pérez Llorca has announced that a player from Ceuta has agreed with the Generalitat Valenciana in the appeal filed against the Government’s decree on the distribution of unaccompanied migrant minors between the autonomous communities. During the parliamentary control session this Thursday, the president pointed out that this is the Contentious-Administrative Court number 1 of Ceuta, which has ruled “that the Government of Spain transfers the minors, violating their rights and hiding the criteria it uses to assign them to one community or another.”
“Justice has made it clear that there is an erratic immigration policy of the Government of Spain,” he stated in response to a question from the Vox ombudsman, José María Llanos, who has urged him to act “without pause and with great haste” against illegal immigration.
