“Pasta o de Buenismo.” Juan Francisco Pérez Yurca (Popular Party) was outstanding in his inaugural speech as he was elected to the Presidency of the State General, succeeding Carlos Mazón. His intervention in Les Corts Venicenes had a very clear purpose: to verbalize and accept Vox’s demands. La Ha Hicho, without related surprises or contradictions, the candidate added the 40 votes from his group to the 13 from the formation of Santiago Abascal, thus fulfilling the text agreed upon.
Thus, Pérez Yurca, 49 years old, was elected President of the Council, the eighth in the era of autonomy, with 53 votes in favor and 45 votes against, 30 votes for the Socialists (one of the candidates was missing due to illness) and 15 votes for the Compromists. The full inauguration is expected to take place next March, if the Bank of England formalizes the appointment in advance. This takes place over the course of 10 days, once Les Corts is informed of the arrival of King Felipe VI regarding the election of Pérez Yurca.
When the Speaker of Parliament, Lanos Massu, from the Vox Party, announced the result of the vote on 18.10, both representatives of the Popular Bench and representatives of the far-right formation applauded, and the 49-year-old Secretary General of the People’s Party and the Mayor of the Municipality of Finestrat (Alicante) in Alicante approached them to congratulate him.
The first to contact Pérez Jurca was Mazzone, who only came to the plenary session of the inauguration at the time of the vote, after his death on November 3 was presented to his administration last year and the denunciation of family members of a large part of the 229 deceased at the state funeral on October 29 last. But the friends and leaders of the Progressive Popular Party were not united in a single embrace as happened in the second elections of 2023. In the air cycle, a certain distance was seen, up to the point where Pérez Jorca did not mention Mazón’s name once during all the hour and medium in which his speech and subsequent responses took; From the door to the interior, and at the party headquarters in Parliament, only closer and affectionate contact was maintained, according to PP sources.
To this end, the candidate did not hesitate to “speak clearly” in his inauguration speech about accepting the demands and proposals of the extreme right, but he also wanted to get out of the ideological burden, stressing that “it is neither from rights nor from Izquierdas.” Enough with so much hypocrisy,” said Pérez Yurca, who had previously added that the proposals that were launched “without complications” in the truck of “ideologies,” in terms of “common sense.”
Many Vox representatives shouted and looked at each other, even without applause, as the aspiring president took a swipe at the European Green Charter, which the popular group had also signed in Brussels, considering it a “threat” to “peasants, farmers and fishermen” in Valencia; It demanded the continuity of the Kovrientes nuclear power plant so as not to “depend on Russia”, and took measures such as age tests for unaccompanied minor migrants, returning them to their countries of origin or canceling aid to rescue and support entities. All of these demands were presented to Fox during the current legislative session.
After ensuring the continuity of his government’s proposal with the previous one, even without mentioning Mazzone and asking for forgiveness from the families of the victims of the crime, Pérez Yurca devoted half of his 60-minute speech to destroying some of the measures aimed at restricting Vox’s support. He wanted to give it a special character, moving away from the “Pact of Service”, as the government agreement reached in 2023 between the People’s Party and Vox was called, and the same agreement, to propose another agreement, the “Pact of Les Cortes”.
The candidate presented himself as a coherent, “calm” and “calm” person, who has the honor of being from a town and, as mayor of Finestrat (10,000 inhabitants), where he has governed with an absolute majority since 2015, does not look to shortcuts to reach agreements. Divorced and with two daughters, he embarked on studies in Derecho, from which he decided to devote himself to the world of family business until he entered politics at the beginning of 2000. With this in mind, Pérez Jurca took the opportunity to send a notice to anyone who asked why he was interim president until the self-elections in 2027: “My intention is that citizens will see in me the same commitment that has come many times.” The rigidity of the far-right proposals presented by the People’s Party contrasted with the language characterized by appeals for moderation, calm and dialogue that the candidate expressed throughout his intervention, most of which was in the Valencian language.
Pérez Jurca asserted that the European Green Charter – which paves the way to the end of fossil fuels in 2050 – as implanted by European elites – poses a danger to farmers, farmers, fishermen, and those who leave “on a street with no exit.” This community agreement, one of Vox’s key issues, in its view has “failed” to be developed to mean “more load solving” for the primary sector. He also criticized Brussels’ imposition of “requirements and controls” on the Spanish sector while allowing the entry of “products from third countries that do not meet the same standards.” “This is not environmentalism or climate justice,” he suppressed using a semantic field very similar to the one Vox typically uses.
Extend the life of the coffee vines
In this bloc, the Popular Party candidate called for confronting the energy future of the Valencian Community by rejecting the Cofrientes nuclear power plant. He said, “Between defending the continuity of infrastructure like Cofrentis or relying on Russia to cover the consequences of the central dam, this candidate is very clear. I am with Cofrentis.”
It has also complied with Vox’s requirements regarding the implementation of outstanding hydraulic works. Specifically, he urged the government to implement the Villamarxant and Chiste dams “once and for all” and repair the Vorata Dam “urgently,” in addition to carrying out plating and drainage improvement works of the Bozalet and La Salita Valley, conditioning of the La Salita Valley, sewerage works and drainage of the Puyo Basin, among others. It also carried out work in the prison of Busio, the state’s only property, which did not warn residents of its overflow on October 29, causing direct deaths in Sôte de Chira.
In the bloc dedicated to immigration, he defended the promotion of a more “orderly” policy, denying that this meant “racism”, and demanded that the nationality of criminals in the Valencian Community be declared, also measures required by the Vox party. “It is not about referring to the club,” Pérez Jurca said, quoting the head of the Catalan government, the socialist Salvador Illa, when he said: “Here we cannot decide that the whole world will win.” “I’m here, Ella, it’s not Mr. Abascal,” he pointed out at the suggestion of a deputy from the left.
Tolerance to the families of the victims
Regarding the dance of October 29, 2024, which caused the death of 229 victims, the Popular Party candidate confirmed that if he leaves before his inauguration, his “first words” are as follows: president It will be “asking for forgiveness” from family members. “I ask forgiveness from all those people and families who suffered the consequences, those who lost everything and those who lost a lot. Words that we must say to everyone in Les Cortes, because there have been many insults and indignities” during this year.
However, she made clear that she would ask “the same from other departments, in every way possible.” In this sense, it was pointed out to the Government of Spain that there is still no “recognized error”, that there are “no particular explanations” and no one bears “responsibility” for its management. He insisted on the need to form a mixed government-government committee to coordinate reconstruction tasks. Three representatives from the Asociación de Víctimas Mortales de la DANA and three from the Asociación Damnificados Dana Horta Sud followed the discussion from the guest platform in the interior of Les Corts.
Furthermore, the candidate also insisted that he would continue the cuts and lower taxes compared to last year, which, however, increased the tax cut by an additional 7% (€2,541 million), as shown. However, it has not been noted that this growth corresponds, as in the rest of the state, to the impuesto sobre Transmisiones Patrimoniales y Actos Jurídicas Documentados (ITP and AJD), which records, in essence, the purchase of used homes, which represent the majority of the market, as in the rest of the state. There is a great need to modify the current autonomous financing system that is particularly harmful to Valencians, an issue that does not sit well with the Vox party, which favors a unified, centralized and non-autonomous system.
From the “fake” inauguration to early elections
From the opposition, PSOE-PSO spokesman José Muñoz accused the PP of concluding a second agreement with the Vox party that makes people “turn to the moderate, conciliatory and dialogued right.” “With the same policies, we could lose millions of European funds, and climate change will become a problem and cost us the lives of 229 people,” Lladro declared. The Socialist spokesman criticized that the people of Valencia are a “laboratory of the extreme right” and strongly attacked that Mazzone had not delivered his minutes as deputy. PSPV Secretary General and Minister Diana Morant denied that this was a new political phase: “It is a fake inauguration, like the reduction of Mazzone, it will not change anything.”
Joan Baldovi, liquidator of the Kompromis party and official spokesman for the Kompromis party, has requested early elections in the council. The parliamentarian said, “This majority does not represent the current feeling of society. There is panic at the ballot boxes.” “Mazzone took the families of the victims. Thousands of Valencians who took to the streets month after month wrote,” he wrote, referring to the downplaying of the number of victims. president Behind the state funeral and the number of demonstrations called for since the tragedy against the state administration.
From Fox’s seat, his spokesman, Jose María Llanos, celebrated the commitments the presidential candidate had secured on matters of immigration and water infrastructure, though he urged him to delve deeper into some of them. “We do not want more in our society,” Llanos said, expressing his happiness with the People’s Party candidate’s ratification of the opposition to the Sanchez government’s distribution of migrant minors “obligating” “societies that want to punish them,” without “forcing societies ruled by traitors to Spain.”