You have until next Wednesday, November 19, to present your candidacy to replace Carlos Mazón as head of the Generalitat to Les Corts Valencianes. There is no rush, underline those around Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca, the deputy and general secretary of the PP of the Valencian Community chosen to replace him, with the support of Vox. The negotiations are progressing and the demands of the far-right formation are acceptable and responsible, as is the impact on the reconstruction measures of the province of Valencia after the Dana, they underline. So the intention is to speed up the process and close a consolidated agreement, they add.
The plans of the Valencian PP, therefore, include not accelerating the process. Once the candidacy has been formalized in the Valencian Parliament, chaired by Llanos Massó, of Vox, another period of between three and seven working days will open to schedule the plenary investiture session which would be convened in the last week of November. Pérez Llorca will testify as a witness before the Catarroja court investigating Dana’s criminal case next Friday, November 21. He will do so as a candidate, if all predictions are met.
His very probable election as president in the first vote with the absolute majority of Les Corts (50 deputies; the PP has 40 and Vox 13) until mid-2027 will be official after the publication of his nomination first on the BOE and then on the DOGV, less than a month after Mazón submitted his resignation on November 3, following his public disapproval, broadcast live, by many of the victims’ relatives who attended the state funeral on October 29.
The content of the new agreement between PP and Vox will also have to have the approval of the national leadership of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who does not forget how the explicit pact reached in 2023 between Mazón and Vox hindered their chances of entering La Moncloa in the subsequent general elections by mobilizing the vote of the left. Now, the PP avoids bringing forward the elections in the Valencian Community, even if it asks for them in Spain, for the surprise election that could be inflicted by the party led by Santiago Abascal, especially in the province of Valencia, hit by floods which caused 229 victims.
From the ultra formation they insist that the good thing now is to rebuild and give stability to the Consell. Vox therefore presents itself as a responsible state party, while demanding from the PP both the assumption and display of its ultra agenda which includes highlighting immigration and the European Green Deal and formulating seemingly simple proposals to solve complex problems such as the construction of dams and dikes to alleviate the devastating effects of natural disasters, accelerated by the climate change it denies. The PP has already responded that there is no problem, that the Feijóo reconstruction plan already includes these infrastructures, even if they are the responsibility of the state government.
Furthermore, forcing regional elections could stimulate left-wing mobilization in the current context later collect the resignation of Mazón, “a ball of oxygen” for the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, according to Abascal’s expression. “The last thing we want is the return of Botànic,” says a Vox leader, alluding to the Generalitat presided over by the socialist Ximo Puig in coalition with Compromís and Unides Podem.
For its part, the left insists on calling for early elections in the Valencian Community in the face of the “criminal negligence” of the Consell, which has 229 deaths on its “shoulders”, unlike the central government which, moreover, leads the country on the path of “growth”, according to the response of the general secretary of the PSPV, Diana Morant, to the proposals to bring forward the elections in Spain. The Minister of Science also attended the event on Saturday Volem Vote!organized by the Valencian socialists to claim an electoral call, together with the secretary of the organization of the PSOE, the Valencian Rebeca Torró, and the secretary of equality of the PSOE and government delegate, Pilar Bernabé.
At this juncture, the negotiations between Pérez Llorca are taking place and are on the right track, according to what the interested party himself reported in his
Today I had a meeting with Vox management to look for an investiture agreement. There was good understanding and the will to reach an agreement on the responsibility of the reconstruction, a matter of top priority for both teams. We will be very transparent when…
— Juanfran Pérez Llorca (@JuanFranFines) November 14, 2025
“Juanfran is a professional politician”, agree several inhabitants of his city, Finestrat, where he has been mayor with an absolute majority since 2015. “And he will make agreements with anyone who has to negotiate. He is a great negotiator”, adds José, one of the locals consulted last Friday. “He is a moderate man, and he is certainly not far right; but he has to do things that he would not do for himself”, defends another, who prefers not to give his name and says he is ideologically located to the left of the Valencian-speaking councilor. “He’s one of the people. A normal person, local, and here we vote for the people”, intervenes Tina, another neighbor.
Pérez Llorca, 49 years old, separated with two daughters, obtained 11 councilors in 2023 for two the PSPV-PSOE, in this Alicante municipality of 10,000 registered inhabitants (60% are foreigners, with Russians, Poles and Ukrainians having replaced the English in recent years), which extends from the Puig Campana mountain to the sea, with the Finestrat cove attached to the beaches of Benidorm.
The PP candidate lives in his family’s house at the foot of the mountain. He currently appears in the business register as a representative since 2001 of the Rancallosa company, which he shares with two sisters, dedicated to real estate development and owner of various properties. He began his law studies when he also became passionate about theatrical practice, dedicated himself to family businesses and entered municipal politics at the beginning of the 2000s, first in a neighborhood group in Finestrat and then in the ranks of the PP.
Being mayor and provincial deputy, he strengthened his relations with Carlos Mazón, when he was appointed president of the Provincial Council of Alicante in 2019. With the help of the current president of the Generalitat, chosen by the then national leadership led by Pablo Casado and Teodoro García Egea to take the reins of the PPCV, Pérez Llorca was appointed number two of the party and negotiated the explicit pact with Vox in 2023 to form the autonomous government. Already as parliamentary spokesperson he agreed with the far right on this year’s budgets and is now negotiating again to become head of the Consell. “He does what the party asks of him and is very skilled at negotiating. Not only with Vox. He also did it with Compromís to have a place on the board of directors of Les Corts”, underlines his entourage. “It is the continuity of Mazón, a politician of absolute trust for whom the end justifies the means, even if he has to agree with the far right”, underlines the opposition.
