“He will have to give all the necessary answers and take charge of all the questions that may be asked in the commission of the Valencian Cortes and in the commission of inquiry of the Senate.” Thus spoke Alberto Núñez Feijóo one day before the state funeral of the victims of the Dana regarding Carlos Mazón. On October 28, the PP leader assured that the then president It would go to the commission of inquiry because of the tragic gout fiasco in both the Valencian Parliament and the Upper House, where the People’s Party has an absolute majority. Party sources for their part have underlined that the current head of the Consell will have to face an interrogation by senators at the latest “before Christmas”. Then everything came to a head. Mazón resigned without the leeway imposed by the face-to-face meeting with the deceased’s relatives. Nonetheless, the People’s Party has now stopped appearing at the Senate commission of inquiry and is stepping away from office.
Mazón will be present next Monday, at 10.30 am, at the other commission of inquiry into the tragedy promoted by the governing parties in Congress. A very complicated appointment for him president outgoing because the Chamber has a much more uncomfortable format than the Les Corts commission of inquiry, controlled by the regional PP and where Mazón was on Tuesday without clarifying anything. Because in the Valencian Parliament the questions from the political spokespersons followed one another and in the end the still president of the Consell answered them all, but in a cumulative manner. In Congress, however, it involves a direct interrogation of each party with 20 minutes per interlocutor. A confrontation like that of Sánchez in the commission of the Koldo case and without initial intervention, he reports Paolo Choza.
On Monday, in the Chamber, the attention of all the national media will once again be focused on Mazón, following his resignation. Feijóo and other members of the PP steering committee will meet weekly at the party headquarters, two kilometers away. This will make it easier for Génova to avoid the difficult picture as talks continue with Vox in Valencia to invest Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca.
It was the PP spokesperson in the Senate, Alicia García, who confirmed this Thursday that Mazón’s nomination to the Upper House is not expected in the short term. “He’s on the list of cronies, that’s what he wanted. And we haven’t set a date yet,” the senator said at a press conference when asked when Mazón will be called to appear in the Senate’s Dana inquiry commission, promoted by the People’s Party last January. Since then, those who have attended his sessions have been mainly academic and technical experts. Almost no political position.
The People’s Party created the Dana commission in the Senate to focus on the “responsibility of the central administration” in managing the tragedy. But for the moment they did not want to set a date for the appearance of any member of the government. Not even the Valencian subdelegate, Pilar Bernabé: nor the former minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, nor the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez. Even though they are on the list of appearances at the beginning and despite the PP having scheduled their interrogation in the Valencian Cortes last week. They did not present themselves because they are not obliged to do so given that it is an autonomous Parliament. They should have presented themselves to the Senate without excuses. Why don’t you call them then?
If they asked for his presence, the People’s Party would be left without an alibi to delay Mazón’s nomination because it would open the melon of political positions, instead of continuing with the sessions with technicians and experts. And there would be no justification for not asking the outgoing head of the Council to also appear. “With his resignation he has assumed his responsibilities at the highest level,” the PP Senate spokesperson said on Thursday. “Whoever does not show up at the Valencian Cortes is not a member of the government,” added García, paying for this inconsistency.
But recently the plans did not point to that line. The week before Mazón’s resignation, PP sources on the Dana commission had assured this newspaper that work would be accelerated to begin calling “political officials” to the Senate Dana commission starting in November. And in fact they considered “Mazón and Bernabé” as their first political appearances. “It will arrive sooner or later,” other popular parliamentary sources added regarding the still president. It won’t happen soon, finally.
On the contrary, the president Yes, he will be in Congress on Monday in the commission of inquiry. In the absence of members of the council, popular sources suggest that the Alicante deputy Macarena Montesinos, deputy spokesperson of the group, who was already at his side during the weekend of confinement in his city during the days of retreat that ended with his resignation, could accompany him.
