The Federal Commission of Lists that tomorrow will submit the proposal to the Federal Committee for its approval has accepted part of the demands of Carlos Fernández Bielsa and Alejandro Soler, provincial secretaries of the PSPV in Valencia and Alicante, and has modified the one imposed yesterday afternoon by Ximo Puig at the PSPV executive meeting. The news, advanced by Levante-EMV and confirmed by this newspaper, means that Ferraz disavows the Valencian president’s proposal and agrees, among other things, to change some positions on the Valencian lists for the 23J general elections.
Sources from both sectors have confirmed to this newspaper that, as an example, Ferraz has accepted the candidacy of Juan Antonio Sagredo, mayor of Paterna, to lead the Senate in Valencia, which was one of Bielsa’s demands, who could soon be the next president of the Provincial Council of Valencia. Sagredo thus occupies the place that Ximo Puig wanted for Alfred Boix, who is the autonomous secretary of the Valencian executive and the president’s most trusted person.
These sources also confirm that Ana MartÃnez Zaragoza, proposed by Alejandro Soler, will go as head of the list for Alicante to the Senate, instead of Antonia Moreno, who was appointed by Ximo Puig. Something similar occurs in Castelló where the mayoress of Castelló (defeated on 28M), Amparo Marco, would replace the PSPV proposal to put Eva Redondo, delegate of the regional Executive in Castelló, as Puig proposed.
Sources close to Ximo Puig have transferred to this newspaper their discomfort that Ferraz has accepted the demands of Bielsa and Soler, who after the provincial executive last Wednesday unanimously agreed on lists that were later modified by the regional executive of the PSPV. An episode that confirms that within Valencian socialism the fracture between two sectors that threaten after 23J to start a tough confrontation to control the transition of the opposition party is becoming deeper.
