The vice president of the Diputación de Valencia and deputy of Ens Uneix, Natalia Enguix, has affirmed that the PSPV “offered a salary to Jorge Rodríguez on the condition that he stay at home” and not mount a candidacy when he left the party in 2019.
The councilor of Ontinyent made this accusation in an interview in Les Notícias del Matí de À Punt, adding that the socialists offered Rodríguez this “salary” to “stay at home, shut up” and that he would not form any party to “not disturb to the PSPV”.
“They have been foolish to let a leader like Jorge Rodríguez lose, a mayor who has won three absolute majorities and that the whole world knows the charisma he has and where he could have reached and they did not want it to be a competition,” he added.
Enguix has spoken out very harshly against the PSPV trustee in Les Corts, Rebeca Torró, who “has been regional secretary and councilor thanks to the betrayal of Jorge Rodríguez”. “She was his right hand and went on to betray his mayor,” she stated and assured that thanks to this she “got a position in the regional administration.”
“She is the one who has to talk the least, she was bought by the PSPV,” he stated before adding that “he never stood for municipal elections because he did not want to compete with Jorge Rodríguez, because he knows he would lose.” “She has appeared on a regional list and in Ontinyent she has been behind the PP and Compromís. She has only dedicated herself to losing elections,” she pointed out.
According to Enguix, those who ended up forming Ens Uneix respected that Torró stayed in the PSPV, and at first she “acted as an intermediary and negotiated for Jorge to stay”, but then “she called an assembly with the militants behind Rodríguez’s back” saying “everything otherwise”.
Asked if the apologies on the part of the PSPV would have been enough to sign an agreement with the Socialists, she stated: “first apologies and then respect”. “The first thing we asked for was respect, both for the PP and the PSPV. With the PP, (the president) Vicente Mompó came and negotiated from day one. If you want to be president, why not come,” he pointed out and criticized that the socialist candidate, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, did not go to Ontinyent to negotiate.
Enguix has also indicated that there has been “contempt” towards Rodríguez on the part of the PSPV: “You cannot invite a minister to Albaida and not go through Ontinyent, which is the capital.” However, he has rejected that they are “obsessed” in “getting along with the PSPV”: “We don’t have time to dedicate ourselves to fighting with them, even if it doesn’t seem the same to them.”
Asked about the areas that she is going to control in the Valencia Provincial Council, Enguix has indicated that “subsidies to democratic memory associations are not in danger”. And she has championed equality training for local police and officers dealing with victims of gender-based violence.
Asked if she considers that Vox will be able to support some budgets with these items -PP and Ens Uneix add up to only 14 deputies and the majority are 16-, Enguix has indicated that she will try to agree with whoever, including also Compromís and PSPV.
Asked if he believes that these two formations will be able to support the budget of PP and Ens Uneix after the harsh criticism for not supporting the investiture of Carlos Fernández Bielsa, he replied: “Their responsibility is theirs, how responsible they want to be depends on them”.
Enguix has defended that it has been Ens Uneix by getting its deputy for the Vall d’Albaida -which danced between them and the PP until the recount- who has “stopped the extreme right”. “Thanks to Ens Uneix we have achieved that the council is not governed by PP and Vox, but we have been able to enter”.
In this sense, he has indicated that negotiations with the PP regarding the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FVMP) are also open and has indicated that the fact that they obtain the presidency “may be on the table.”
Asked about the ideology of the formation, Enguix pointed out that Ens Uneix is ??a “progressive” party where “there are also people who come from the PP who feel more comfortable than in the PP”. Of herself, she has indicated that she is “a progressive person and of the left and also of the center”, and has assured that the government of the Diputación is also “progressive” both on her part and on that of the PP.
