More devoted than ever to Vox

First and foremost, it must be said that one of the two forces that brought down Mazón was the citizenry, the same citizenry he scorned during this past year, which he dedicated to clinging to power by any means necessary. The citizenry who never stopped demonstrating against him on the 29th of each month, and who last Wednesday, at the state memorial service for the victims, told him what he deserved to hear. Those shouts marked the beginning of the countdown for Mazón. And, after what we've seen, it remains to be seen if it will also be the countdown for Feijóo.

Mazón has fallen, but he hasn't resigned. The other force that brought him down is that of a judge, the one from Catarroja, who does her job well and who has the still-serving president of the Valencian Generalitat obsessed. Mazón's speech early Monday morning was as repulsive as the man who delivered it, full of falsehoods and distortions, but with it he was clearly seeking two solutions: the legal and the political. Regarding the legal solution, Mazón will not resign until he has a new position that grants him immunity and, therefore, protection from the actions of the feared judge. As for the political solution, Mazón again shifted blame to the central government in general and to Pedro Sánchez in particular (whom he called a "bad person"), and prayed to Saint Abascal that he would agree to maintain what he has been building this year alongside the colorful Vice President Gan Pam. A distributor worth 29 billion euros.

Maribel Vilaplana will not be able to escape having her name associated with the tragedy and a web of lies, perhaps even in a statement like the one she gave this Monday, as a witness before a judge. What happened on the afternoon of October 29, 2024, remains unclear; Vilaplana insists that Mazón was calm and now claims they were talking about soccer.

Feijóo's utter inability to manage the situation was evident at an executive committee meeting that was not attended by the vast majority of males regional elections, after a weekend in which Mazón even coerced him with the threat of calling elections, against the wishes of Feijóo, Tellado, and the party leadership. But above all, in a subsequent astonishing appearance in which he still commented on Pedro Sánchez's departure from the Senate and then proceeded to leave all decision-making power in the hands of Vox (because Feijóo's PP doesn't even bother trying to talk to anyone else anymore). Feijóo is a non-leader, a PP president who can be told what to do, a figure as jaded as Mazón, an opposition leader who has to beg the far right for a solution to his problems. Mazón mentioned the 229 deaths from the DANA storm almost in passing; Feijóo didn't. He didn't neglect, however, to include at the end of his little speech a slimy reference to the need for "more security on the streets and at the borders." He was winking at Vox.