Overview

• About an hour before the regional Debate of General Policy, roughly a hundred people gathered outside Les Corts with banners and chants calling for Carlos Mazón’s resignation.
• Victims’ groups demanded that the Valencian president present himself to the judiciary, noting that the investigating judge has invited him three times to testify voluntarily.
• Spokespeople Rosa Álvarez and Mariló Gradolí said they expect no real accountability from the planned speech, rejecting an apology as belated and calling his remarks rhetorical.
• Two associations entered the guests’ tribune to observe the debate as another association continued the protest at the doors of the chamber.
• Representatives criticized the reconstruction approach, citing a €2 million consultancy and the appointment of a retired military official, while alleging clientelist distribution of new aid and unpaid claims.