BarcelonaThe Valencian right and far right are currently imploding due to internal disputes, management errors and a hellish parliamentary arithmetic. The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, is currently the main problem of the bloc that won the regional and municipal elections of 2023 and rushed to occupy all the positions of power where PP and Vox added up. Mazón remains in his place surrounded by a small group of faithful, but both the state leadership and some internal factions of the party in Valencia have already begun to move because they consider him too heavy a burden to face the next elections with guarantees. Vox has also opened up to looking for a solution because it fears being dragged down by Mazón's discredit, since each time they must be the ones to save his skin in Les Corts, as will presumably happen if the PSPV finally presents a motion of censure. It is not ruled out that, depending on what happens in the next few days, we will see Vox asking for the head of Mazón.
But things are not going better for the Valencian right in the main city council they govern, that of Valencia. There, it is the Vox municipal group that has imploded and, with the expulsion of the deputy mayor, Juan Manuel Badenas, the mayor, María José Catalá, could be left in the minority, since the difference with the opposition is only one councillor, 17 to 16. Generalitat, Vicente Barrera, or even the general secretary, Ignacio Garriga, but they also show how they want to use a competition with a communication company to favour the media that are close to them. Vox's excuse for suspending him is this possible irregular award, but in reality what is brewing in the state leadership is disloyalty and personalism, and Santiago Abascal does not forgive that.
And even more. The state leadership is very angry with Badenas because he "snuck" his partner, the current councillor Cecilia Herrero, onto the municipal list. Now in Valencia they are waiting to see if Badenas and Herrero carry out the threat they have been hinting at these days and move on to the mixed group of the City Council. If this happens, the legislature will become an ordeal for María José Catalá, who is currently the main asset of the Valencian PP and the main candidate to replace Mazón. The loss of Badenas, a popular face in Valencia, is also a problem for Vox, which has no guaranteed replacement. Herrero, by the way, is being investigated for tweets against immigrants and others in which she wished for the death of Pedro Sánchez.
Meanwhile, the DANA has altered the plans that the PP had to absorb Vox and attract some of its main leaders, such as Barrera himself. In some ways, Abascal and his people consider that they have been very lucky that the catastrophe caught them outside the Valencian government, since they were precisely the minister responsible for emergencies. And now they consider that they must simply wait for a significant transfer of votes from the PP to Vox. With Mazón amortized and Vox reinforced, doubts are growing in the Valencian PP and the chapels and conspiracies are multiplying. In reality, everyone is waiting for an intervention from above, a decision by Alberto Núñez Feijóo that has not yet arrived and that would at least serve to pacify the party. Until it arrives, however, the internal struggles continue and the left-wing opposition is soaking up the bread both in the Generalitat and in the City Council.
