Negotiations between the PSPV and La Vall ens Uneix begin this afternoon to try to close a government agreement that allows the Socialists to govern the Valencia Provincial Council. After the agreement of PP and Vox in the Generalitat and the constitution of almost all the town halls, the Valencia Provincial Council is the last great institution to which the left can cling. In addition, it can play a decisive role in the renewal of the PSPV, as has already been seen with the attempts to designate the Socialist candidate to preside over it. This makes the PP, which does not lose hope, increase its efforts to prevent the Socialists from having a stronghold from which to rebuild.
The future of this provincial corporation is in the hands of the provincial deputy of La Vall Ens Uneix, an independent party created by Jorge Rodríguez after being expelled from the PSPV for his arrest in the Alqueria case. Days after the municipal elections, where Rodríguez once again swept and maintained that provincial deputy for whom the PP and PSPV now sigh, the case against him was filed.
Although there are still doubts as to whether Ximo Puig, as general secretary of the party, will reverse the decision of the provincial leadership to designate Carlos Fernández Bielsa as a candidate for the presidency of the provincial institution (this week it will be resolved), the mayor of Mislata is making his way.
Yesterday, he announced, as “general secretary of the PSPV in the province of Valencia and socialist candidate to occupy the presidency of the Valencia Provincial Council”, the appointment of a negotiating team “to try to reach an agreement with the other left formations that will allow form a progressive government in the provincial institution during the next legislature”.
The mayor has entrusted this task to people he trusts, such as the economist Eloy Hidalgo; the president of the PSPV in the province of Valencia and mayoress of La Pobla Llarga, Neus Garrigues; the current socialist spokesperson in the Provincial Council, Pilar Sarrión; the councilor in the Sagunt City Council Jorge Vidal; and the former provincial deputy for Highways, Pablo Seguí.
Opposite, the negotiators of Ens Uneix will meet this Tuesday in Ontinyent (meeting venue): Natàlia Enguix, Ricard Gallego and Joan Sanchis. Sources from this independent formation explain to La Vanguardia that they have nothing closed with anyone, nor any “predilection” for either the PSPV or the PP. Of course, they emphasize that after everything that happened they have a lot of “suspicion and distrust” because of how they were treated in their party and how the PP tried to put them in jail.
In this scenario, the popular ranks are convinced that they can convince Rodríguez with a good deal offer. For the PP, covering up the possibility that the PSPV finds accommodation in the Valencia Provincial Council would be a definitive blow and that is the provincial president Vicente Mompó and his followers.
