A message against Mazón on a Times Square screen: "We have 228 reasons why you shouldn't come back."

BarcelonaProtests against Carlos Mazón for his handling of the DANA (National Anti-Drug Traffic Act), which caused 228 deaths in Valencia alone, have followed him to New York. A campaign against the Valencian president on a giant screen in Times Square has given him the welcome in the city, where he stopped as part of his official trip to the US to assess the impact of Donald Trump's tariffs. "We have 228 reasons for you not to come back," reads the message in Catalan that appears over an image of Mazón. It is a paid Compromís action to remind him of the "disastrous management" of the DANA six months ago.

"Carlos Mazón has been fleeing justice and the Valencian people for months, which is why, from Compromís, we remind him wherever he goes of the cries of the Valencian people, the memory of the victims of the DANA, and that there will be no reconstruction without reparation and justice," explained the Valencian MEP. The message in New York will appear every hour throughout the day today on one of the screens in the well-known Manhattan square.

The trip to the US by the head of the Council served as an argument for dilute its presence at the European PP congress This week in Valencia, he participated in without including it in his official agenda to avoid alerting the activists who organized the various citizen protests calling for his resignation. "[Mazón] will not be able to divert the attention of the public; the people of Valencia need explanations from their president and for him to finally pay for his negligence," Marzà added.

Compromís has revealed that the cost of projecting the message - which lasts 15 seconds - once an hour and for 24 hours has been €132.76 (150 dollars), and Marzà has assured in a message to X that he has paid them out of his own pocket. This is a much lower amount than what the Generalitat of Catalonia paid when in April 2022 it also projected an advertisement in Times Square, and for an entire day, to claim Catalan as the language of the future in the digital world. The message said "It's time the internet speaks Catalan"(It's time for the internet to speak Catalan) and in that case the Government paid 3,250 euros.