Puig stops Bielsa: he will change his lists and freeze his appointment to preside over the Provincial Council

The PSPV executive this afternoon is expected to be tense. As this newspaper explained yesterday, the leadership chaired by Ximo Puig plans to amend the lists to Congress and the Senate that were unanimously approved on Wednesday by the leadership and the provincial committee of Valencia-led by Carlos Fernández Bielsa. And not only that, PSPV sources emphatically point out that “the national leadership of the PSPV will freeze the election of provincial deputies and, in the same direction, will also do the same with the proposal of the mayor of Mislata, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, as a candidate for the presidency of the Provincial Council of Valencia”.

Quite a blow to the intentions of the mayor who already ran last week, with the support of his own, as a candidate to preside over the most important institution that can remain in the hands of the Valencian left.

The PSPV leadership indicated this morning that “during the meeting of the PSPV national executive committee to be held this afternoon, the socialist leadership will make a final proposal on the candidacies for the next general elections on July 23.” To this, a significant piece of information was added, and that is that this proposal “has the agreement of the federal leadership of the PSOE to be ratified at the federal committee meeting next Saturday.”

An issue that is not trivial since although the authority to draw up the lists in the province, the final decision rests in the hands of the federal leadership. It seems that Puig has the support of Pedro Sánchez to stop this first attempt at internal rebellion.

And it is that the same sources point out that the lists of Valencia and Alicante “were proposed without agreement by those provincial addresses.”

From the other side, Bielsa’s collaborators respond that the candidacies were approved unanimously and with no intention of creating “conflict.” In fact, sources close to the provincial leader explain that before the names were finalized, Bielsa called Puig and asked him for the names that he wanted to be on the list: “And the two that he told him are there,” they point out. Along these lines, they point out that in Valencia’s candidacy of the first five – the first two, Minister Diana Morant and former minister José Luis Ábalos come from the federal leadership – there is only one candidate related to Bielsa.