The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has expressed that the president of the Generalitat Carlos Mazón “gives them a lesson to those who never assume anything, no matter how serious it may be” in reference to the resignation he announced this Monday. Feijóo has assured the Valencians that “the national leadership is not going to leave you alone in the face of the challenge that lies ahead of you” and has asked the parties that govern in coalition in the autonomous community, his own and Vox, to be responsible for the appointment of a new regional leader after Mazón’s departure. He hopes, he says, that “they rise to the occasion” and facilitate the election of a new president as soon as possible, due to “the responsibility that the Valencian people deserve.”
In a speech before his National Executive Committee, Feijóo said that today “a colleague” who has suffered “a political and personal hunt” that he must be denounced “with all intensity”, since “he is not a murderer”. “He made mistakes, yes, he also apologized and assumed them today to the fullest consequences,” Feijóo insisted before several of his barons, in his first public intervention after the president’s resignation, which occurred after the two spoke on the phone on Sunday.
In the same way that Mazón has done during his speech early in the morning, Feijóo has attacked the central government of Pedro Sánchez, which he accuses of poor management: “Mr. Sánchez should have left much longer ago. And he will leave, because of what happened in La Dana, for many other things and because all of us Spaniards will do it, starting with the Valencians.” What’s more, they insist on blaming the Executive for not having requested the national emergency, but the regional leader has pointed out that one of his mistakes was not requesting it himself“because according to the Government itself, it was not going to attract more troops nor was it going to make them arrive sooner”, a decision that it describes as a “political strategy.” However, declaring this scenario would not have caused state resources to arrive sooner because the limitations were the same. He also assures that it was Feijóo who advised him to do it “and he was right.” In this way, he admits that he based a decision as president and manager of his autonomous community on what the leader of his party advised him.
