Last week, Carlos Mazón was the protagonist of one of those rare and interesting moments in which a political leader seems to simply exhaust the patience of public opinion. A good part of political communication is based on the assumption that this patience is infinite, as is the forgetfulness of the majority. Day to day life, in principle, seems to corroborate this idea, and the political panorama is full of figures who go about their business, or are directly successful and win elections, despite having committed, in word and deed, blunders of the height of a bell tower. We all have, without having to think too much, a group of examples in our heads.
But, from time to time, this principle fails and suddenly the capacity of the media and the public to continue supporting the presence of this or that character is exhausted. Last Wednesday, in a statement, Mazón wanted to practice what the best defense is a good attack. He presented himself as a victim of persecution, of course, and he handed out accusations left and right, accusing Pedro Sánchez's government, the media, the opposition parties and a good part of the citizenry of lying with the purpose of criminalizing him. He also revealed that on October 29 he arrived at the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) at 8:28 p.m., a time that suits him well to disassociate himself from the late issuance of the alert, for which the judge of Catarroja Núria Ruiz has opened a judicial investigation against him. Later, the Generalitat Valenciana released a photo in which Carlos Mazón can effectively be seen entering the Cecopio headquarters at the time he had said. However, the materials coming from the Valencian government are reliable, after they tried to release manipulated audio recordings to make an Aemet technician say something she had not said.
For Mazón, however, the shot backfired. Playing the victim, lying and attacking everything and everyone is what Ayuso usually does, and with this unbearable behaviour she has managed to create a claque that laughs at all her jokes. However, Mazón has been crooked since the day he put on the life jacket, and with these statements, instead of obtaining support, he caused general indignation. He also fell into disgrace with his own people, and the consensus is to consider him a zombie politician, from whom practically only the news of his downfall is expected. This Saturday there was a new massive demonstration against him (the fifth), he is booed at any public event he attends and the PSPV speculates with a motion of censure (but only speculates, because it is not expected that Vox would vote in favour and, therefore, the support would be insufficient).
It also happens that Mazón is not doing well to resign from the presidency right now: he has his other front underway, the false consultation on/against public education in Valencian. This Tuesday is the deadline for voting and we will have to be attentive to the results that come out and the more than possible manipulations that the Valencian government of the PP and Vox can make.
