Aitana Mas is a 33-year-old politician from Alicante. She was vice president of the Valencian Generalitat with the previous left-wing government. She is now a deputy for Compromís in the Valencian Cortes. Today she has been the protagonist of the control session without saying a word. All the parliamentary groups gave him affectionate applause this Thursday, when the president of parliament, Llanos Massó, from Vox, expressed the chamber's satisfaction at seeing her occupy her seat. But she announced last weekend on her social media that she suffers from cancer. The deputy responded by nodding and placing her hand over her heart.
Portava more than four years vigilant and controlling that this moment will not arrive but finally it has remained inevitable...
The bad news is that there is cancer. The good thing is that I thought I would cure myself, don't panic!!
Continue... pic.twitter.com/ixd4SQwLFc
— Aitana Mas (@AitanaMas) April 14, 2024
Only his presence with a mask and the words and gestures that all the deputies of all the political formations have addressed to him have brought some harmony to an angry session in which there has been much discussion regarding the controversial bill that the PP and Vox, parties that support the Consell de la Generalitat, have called “de Concordia”, which aims to replace the current autonomous law of Democratic Memory. The right and the extreme right consider that the norm recognizes “all victims”, unlike the previous one; The left maintains that it “whitewashes Francoism” and “equates dictatorship with democracy.”
The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, of the PP, has “thanked” Mas for becoming a reference for “women who need references when they receive news of this type.” Compromís spokesperson, Joan Baldoví, gave him a knowing wink: “That
punky
haircut looks great on you
.” The socialist spokesperson, José Muñoz, has come to talk to her. Her first vice president, Vicente Barrera, of Vox, and her vice president, Susana Camarero, of the PP, have wished her a speedy recovery.
Once that moment of authentic concord has passed, the waters have returned to the channel of the chamber, where they have begun to distribute firewood, this time, at Franco's expense, in reference above all to the dictator but also to the Alicante socialist leader (Ángel Franco), in a control session that included the distribution of a book by Chaves Nogales and a photograph by Miguel Hernández, and the exhibition of images of victims of the dictatorship and black t-shirts.
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Do you consider that Francoism was a dictatorship?” Muñoz asked Mazón, after the socialist recalled Vice President Barrera's words about his pride in being the grandson of those who won the Civil War. “Read the lips carefully: yes, it was a dictatorship,” the president responded. “In this community, the only one that has a problem with the Franco regime is Alicante socialism. They have integrated it into their executive [now directed by the Minister of Science, Diana Morant]. It is a Francoist regime like the top of a pine tree that has been in force for 40 years,” stated the also president of the Valencian PP who has accused the socialists of not caring about the real problems of the Valencian Community.
The PSPV
Ombudsman
has responded to Mazón by asking him if "he has a problem with the 'Zaplanista' regime installed in the Generalitat", in reference to the trial of the former Valencian president, Eduardo Zaplana, of the PP, now sitting on the bench accused of several crimes. of corruption. In his reply, Mazón has urged the PSPV to “allow itself the luxury of being against all hatred and dictatorships,” quoting an excerpt from journalist and writer Manuel Chaves Nogales. At the end, he gave him the book
In Blood and Fire: Heroes, Beasts and Martyrs of Spain,
which the socialist accepted. In exchange, he has given the president a photograph of the poet Miguel Hernández that Mazón has placed visibly on his seat.
The display of reprisal t-shirts by the socialist deputies has been answered by the Vox spokesperson, José María Llanos, who has accused them of doing "theater", and has stated that if they brought to the plenary session the photos of the "thousands of "Martyrs massacred by socialism would not fit in this Parliament."
For his part, the
Ombudsman
of Compromís, Joan Baldoví, explained that his group attended the plenary session in black because this Thursday is a “black day for Valencians”, since laws are going to be processed that he considered to be a "shame". After the control session, the Les Corts plenary session votes on the processing of the five law proposals promoted by PP and Vox, on issues such as historical memory, multilingualism (called the Educational Freedom law by its promoters), the Anti-Fraud Agency ( only presented by the popular ones), transparency or regional television. The PP and Vox have an absolute majority in the chamber.
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