Mazón pampers Abascal just days before finally presenting key budgets for the legislature

This week, the Valencian Government's 2025 Budget is due to be presented. A presentation that was already planned for the previous week, although it was soon seen that the appointment was going to be postponed. This circumstance forces the Valencian Parliament's Board of Ombudsmen to restructure the entire calendar approved just a few days ago, which established that this Monday the councillors should have already begun to parade by commission to explain the accounts of their respective parliaments. The doubts are such that the socialists have even registered an alternative calendar in case the accounts are not presented this week either. Read also Doubts about Mazón's accounts: not yet this week and the "unpredictability" of Vox is feared Hèctor Sanjuán, Salvador Enguix Oliver However, everything indicates that this time the announcement will be fulfilled. Yesterday, the Minister of Finance, Ruth Merino, assured that the Generalitat's Budget for 2025 will be presented "during the week." Everything indicates that it will be at the end of the week, after the meeting of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council (CPFF) scheduled for Wednesday. In this context, the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, did not hesitate yesterday to applaud, during his visit to Madrid, the behavior of the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, whom he thanked for the “personal” support that, according to Mazón, the president of Vox gave him during the management of the terrible dana. The Valencian leader emphasized that Abascal is aware of the “political story that was being concocted in the Valencian Community” about the dana. Along these lines, he did not hesitate to emphasize that his relationship with the leader of Vox is “extraordinary.” Statement Mazón points out that Abascal is aware of the "political story that was being concocted in the Valencian Community" regarding the Dana Mazón's statements come in a key week when his Consell, in a minority in Les Corts, must finally present this year's accounts. Accounts that are essential for the reconstruction of the Valencian Community, but also to sustain Mazón's term in office, highly criticised after the Dana. For the moment, Vox has chosen to support him with the argument that, otherwise, the door would be opened to a left-wing executive with PSPV and Compromís. However, the acid test will be the budgets. Vox's parliamentary group confirms that negotiations are "going well" but warns that "nothing has been finalised". They also deny that the delay in presenting the accounts has anything to do with their demands and attribute it to issues inherent in balancing such complicated accounts. The same sources point out that the Popular Party is giving in to its demands and admit that the situation of weakness has allowed them a negotiating context that is very favourable to their interests. Juncture Vox has attacked Gan Pampols and Mompó without anyone from the PP coming out forcefully to defend them Beyond the budgets, the new situation has led Vox to mercilessly attack the second vice-president of the Consell, Francisco José Gan Pampols , or the president of the Valencia Provincial Council, Vicent Mompó , without anyone from the PP coming out forcefully to defend the position of their colleagues in government or party. Any gesture with Vox (also that of Mazón in Madrid yesterday with Abascal) is very carefully considered in the popular ranks who hope that "their preferred partner" does not leave them in the lurch before reaching that new phase of the legislature that would mean the approval of accounts for recovery.