carlos Flores Juberías is not just a candidate vox To the head of the Generalitat in the next regional elections. Member of the Transparency Council for PPThis newspaper’s disclosure that this Constitutional Law professor at the University of Valencia was sentenced to a year in prison for sexist violence in 2002 therefore concerns not only the far-right formation but also the popular.
Official sources of the PPCV leadership stated yesterday that they are willing to renew a transparency body, which has expired since 2020 and has so far been linked to negotiations by other advisory bodies. “We’re late. We’ll renew Transparency whenever Puig wants it,” he said. “Just today”, representatives of the popular group that abounds in the Cortes have offered to separate this entity (and others) from one that has created conflict and hindered renewal since November: Consell Jurídic Consultiu (CJC). They even say that the official appointee is from the Puig government so they can dismiss him.
For the Valencia PP, the Transparency proposal in 2016 is a dual issue today: to be the next Vox nominee and a well-known conviction for “customary psychic violence” and 21 crimes of “coercion, insult and unjustified harassment” against his first wife. .
The party, led by Carlos Mazón and María José Catalá, is keeping a distance and said yesterday that he knew because of what was published yesterday that Flores was involved in a case of sexist violence. “Any issue of gender-based violence seems serious and unfortunate to us anyway,” sources from the conservative establishment said.
Transparency is not the only position Flores Juberías continues to occupy in PP’s bid. One of the members of the Valencian Community Electoral Board also took it when offered by popular ones after retiring professor Javier Orduña. Appointments in this body are unanimous, but only after the parties raise their names: Flores’ party started from the PP. “Being a party candidate and being a member of the Election Board is incompatible. It is therefore an issue that will be resolved shortly,” says PP.
Vox approved her nomination yesterday after learning she had been convicted of sexist violence. This logically means that if the right wins a majority in the 2023 regional elections (currently no polls offer possibilities for the PP only), the professor (and the Fuerza Nueva candidate in 1982) could become vice-president of the Council. In line with what happened in Castilla y Leon, headed by Mazón.
The Valencia PP declined to decide yesterday on this possibility, preferring to walk away. They point out that their model is Juanma Moreno Bonilla, in order to get a “majority” to rule without others. However, polls have oscillated between technical draw and waning left wins in recent months, adding PP and Vox to the right block.