“We see the institutional representation unbalanced with respect to what we have agreed in recent years. You have the group’s Syndicate, a deputy, you want the Table and, on the other hand, the deputy from Madrid. You lead everything. Now there is no position in the government that compensates none of that […] You also know that we are underrepresented in the group”.
This message, in Valencian, that the candidate and future parliamentary spokesperson for Compromís, Joan Baldoví, received, demonstrates the Iniciativa’s discontent in the distribution of power after losing the government and many town halls on March 28.
The message also made it clear that the possibility of the PP giving up its votes in order to place the Compromís representative on the Les Corts table was not a last-minute maneuver. In fact, by midweek, Compromís was already aware that the PP would vote in favor of its proposal and there was even a last call over the weekend to point out that the votes needed to win the PSPV were not 17 but 18, since a of the Compromís deputies would not attend the plenary session.
In this context, Iniciativa debated internally and in secret whether they had the right to have the representative on the Board of Les Corts go for them (the name of the outgoing councilor Isaura Navarro was considered, who was already on the Board in the Congress of Deputies 2004 -2008). However, there were those who in the Initiative defended that Navarro would have to play a low role in the Chamber and that in exchange for ceding the position to Més Compromís, Aitana Mas’s party would have to have two deputies because, as the message to Baldoví stated , the majority party of the coalition, keeps the spokesperson, the position in the Table and the electoral poster of 23-J. It will be necessary to see if this happens because there are three assistant positions and Els Verds also want to be represented.
Regardless of the final result, Iniciativa sources confirm to La Vanguardia that there is a shared perception in the party led until recently by Mónica Oltra that “Més wants all the spaces and that weakens us as a coalition.” “They are going very sack”, they admit in the ecosocialist formation that they regret that each negotiation is “life or death” without respecting the percentages of 65% for Més, 35% for Initiative and 5% for Els Verds that had been assumed .
And it is that there is a perception that without Mónica Oltra and with Aitana Mas out of the Government, the ecosocialists are weakened and Més Compromís does not want to miss the opportunity.
A climate of certain distrust to face the new stage that will open at the turn of the summer, where the parties that make up Compromís aspire to establish a more stable relationship. A few days ago, the coordinator of Més Compromís, Àgueda Micó, who will leave the organic position to be a deputy in Congress if the coalition with Sumar is not miserably shipwrecked, spoke in an interview in this newspaper about the need to face a congress for the constitution of Compromís that it is still a coalition of three parties.
A week earlier, at an Initiative Table, his co-spokesman Alberto Ibáñez spoke of the need to refound the space to create a “federation of parties”: not a single party but a platform with “common structures and protocols that do not oblige to negotiate everything every time”.
Both leaders agreed, yes, on the need to expand that space with Esquerra Unida “and what is left of Podem” in the Valencian Community. In that great idea of ??becoming strong in a single option to the left of the PSPV.
