Rarely is a president essential. Really essential, I mean. Most days of his term, a president may or may not be there, because the machine works without him. It is important that it is there, obviously, but it is not essential. Presidents tend to hide it, because they want to convince us that, without them, nothing would work. But most of those who have held and hold that position know that it is not essential that they be there… except on a specific day.
Many do not find themselves in a situation of this type throughout their mandate, but some agree at a time when their presence is essential, that they must necessarily be there, in their position. Well, Carlos Mazón, who was called to be that type of president that almost no one remembers, bland, gray, suddenly found himself on one of those rare days in which a president must be. And he wasn’t there. Possibly the only day of his mandate in which his presence was required, Mazón was not there.
It doesn’t matter what he was doing. It doesn’t matter if he was eating or sleeping or reading the complete works of Nietzsche in German. He was not the only day that he was needed to be there, to exercise his presidential function in person. That alone made him unable to continue practicing it even one more day. If you’re not there when you need to be, you better leave. And as soon as you can, because you have been completely disqualified for the position.
But Mazón did not leave. It’s not gone, in fact. He has said that he was leaving, or that he will leave when they find a replacement for him. Palace things, you already know. Apparently, Mazón was so knocked out on October 29 of last year that it has taken him all this time to realize what is evident: that he was still occupying a position for which he had been completely disqualified. But Mazón is not the only one responsible. In fact, he is not even the main person responsible.
Because, unlike what the PP has tried to make understood, Mazón was not (still is) president of the Generalitat solely by his will. Like Feijóo is not president of Spain because he doesn’t want to. Mazón was on a party list. In fact, it was that match that decided to place him at number one on that list for Alicante. Mazón was proposed for the investiture by a parliamentary group, from that same party, which effectively invested him with their votes (and those of Vox, by the way). Mazón has had the support of that same party throughout this year, which has applauded him at rallies and conferences. Because it was that party, not Mazón, that calculated that it was better to keep Mazón than to go to elections or an uncertain investiture. And the president of that party applauds “the lesson” that Mazón has given by announcing his resignation, as if he were passing by.
