Mazón will not testify before the judge and maintains that the Generalitat "acted with the utmost diligence"

BarcelonaThe Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, is passing the buck, he does not want to testify before the court (the judge offered him to testify voluntarily) and he is spreading some criticism against the investigation into the management of the DANA in the Valencian Community. "We have found out about it through the media," he lamented in a press conference this Tuesday morning, in which he censured the way the judge of Catarroja acted. This Monday the head of the investigation issued a very forceful resolution In this case, two key officials of the Mazón government during the DANA were charged: the then Minister of Justice and Interior, Salomé Pradas, and the regional secretary for Emergencies, Emilio Argüeso. Although for now it excludes the charge against Mazón and does not raise that possibility to the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Country, it is a harsh resolution that holds the Valencian regional administration responsible for the errors in the management of the catastrophe. It is there where Mazón has reaffirmed himself on the management of the Consell of the cold drop: "I am very sure that the Generalitat acted with the greatest and best diligence at all times," he said.

In fact, Mazón has refused to make "assessments" on the matter: "I will respect the judicial procedures; absolute collaboration," he has been insisting. However, faced with the numerous questions about whether he would choose to testify voluntarily, a decision that depends on him and that the judge offers him, he has repeated the same thing over and over again: "We have not considered appearing as a witness, the judge herself says in her ruling that it is not appropriate even as a witness," he asserted, despite the offer he has made. He also wanted to remember that the ruling is not "firm" and avoided making any kind of self-criticism just before entering the plenary session of the Consell del País Valencià, the meeting of the autonomous government.

PP support in Mazón

Mazón defended himself by saying that he had "collaborated from the beginning" with the justice system, in which he responded to "all requests for information" with the "maximum delivery" of documents. "It is not about feeling, but about continuing to work," he said, to avoid assessing the content of the harsh resolution. According to his account, they are only "very concerned about the recovery" of the territory, despite the fact that the numerous version changes and the mass demonstrations He has been increasingly questioned, even within the ranks of the Valencian PP, which has seen former president Francisco Camps has reappeared on the scene to star in the ordinary regional congress of the party.

For now, despite the fact that the state leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, assured that Mazón "was not up to par", has not promoted changes and the state leadership has continued to support the continuity of the Valencian president. Precisely, this Tuesday the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has insisted on Telecinco that Mazón "is for what he should be, for reconstruction", supporting the Valencian leader again. But this does not mean that the leadership of Madrid does not show symptoms of discomfort with Mazón. And the change of venue planned for the European PP congress is proof of this, since it had been initially planned in Valencia, but Madrid has the numbers to replace the capital of the Turia. The excuse is that April 29 and 30, days of the popular congress, coincide with a plenary session in the Congress of Deputies where important decisions can be voted. In any case, the truth is that Feijóo announced last week from Brussels This change, taking it for granted even though the decision is not yet official, but it was made in a context of great questioning of Mazón and a climate of tension against the management of the catastrophe.