Carlos Mazón will appear in the courtroom again in two months. The first general assembly session of 2024, with its first control session for the president, will carry some memories with the session held in the same headquarters almost nine years ago, on February 26, 2015. This was the last parliamentary debate. Alberto Fabra As president of the Generalitat, this was the last time Consel’s interrogators and debaters with its president were all men; This is something that will happen again on Wednesday.
The regional parliament continues its activities after a break due to the non-working month of January. And it does so with a checkout session brought to Wednesday (instead of the usual Thursdays) with a double premiere: José Muñoz and José María Llanos In a discussion with Mazón as trustees of PSPV and Vox respectively.
Muñoz and Llanos’ debut
Both have been leading their respective groups for more than a month, but since no check-in sessions have been held to date, they have not had the opportunity to make their debut to check on the president. Until this Wednesday.
Muñoz and Llanos will reprise their roles Rebeca Torro and Ana Vega In the debate on November 30, both the PP and the Compromís Miguel Barrachina and Joan Baldoví As ombudsman, for the first time since 2015, women will leave the control session without intervening from the podium. Just as at the plenary session nine years ago, there will be female voices in questions posed to Consell from the podium, but not in direct questioning of Consell’s chairman, who has always been a man.
They intervened in Fabra’s last control session Jorge Bellver On the PP side, anthony torres by PSPV Enric Morera Compromís and Ignacio Blanco as ombudsman of Esquerra Unida after being replaced a few months ago Marga Sanz. The former EU coordinator was the only woman to serve as a trustee during this legislature (between 2011 and 2014) and the previous legislature (between 2007 and 2011).
Another difference that the first control session of 2024 will bring is that the PP will not ask Mazón questions. Since the start of the legislature, popular members have used their desks initiating debate to intervene in the plenary session. But they won’t be able to do that in this case. The popular group stated that they would do this on “very rare” occasions and on “very special” occasions, and that the next time would not be one of them. That’s why they didn’t record any questions.
Yes, other entities have done this. Socialists will question the president over PP Consell and Vox’s assessment of the government’s policies in its first six months; Compromis will ask questions about non-payment of teachers, civil servants and their dependents and whether there was a “major computer error” from regional Executive management, while Vox will ask about the reasons that led Consell to “recommend an audit for instrumental control”. public sector » A question from the Generalitat is unlikely to change its partner’s attitude.
President to meet with Catalan businessmen in March
The first “business mission” of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazon, Going to Catalonia already has a history. Next March 13, the major Catalan employers’ association will host an event hosted by Foment del Treball, which will take place at the request of the Generalitat, as announced yesterday. The Valencian president will meet with different Catalan business representatives in a format yet to be determined, after learning that Catalonia can get water from the Sagunto desalination plant if necessary due to the severe drought it is experiencing.
Opposition leaves PP and Vox alone ahead of Israeli embassy video
The video was eventually shown, but it was to a partisan audience, specifically a right-wing audience. PSPV and Compromís left PP and Vox alone before the Israeli embassy released a video in the Cortes about the Hamas attacks on October 7. The president of the regional parliament, Llanos Massó (Vox), gave a room in the hall (the Vinatea room) to Israel’s diplomacy in Spain for a “special session” of a video that the opposition described as propaganda. The criticism was from the moment the Vox leader agreed to leave this public space without entering the room’s bodies. The reason was that this was not an “official” action. In fact, Massó did not participate. Yes, five PP MPs did so, as did Vox ombudsman José María Llanos and his deputy Joaquín Alés. Of course, without cell phones.