CompromÃs believes that the announcement of its agreement with Sumar is a matter of hours (it cannot be extended beyond Friday either). In fact, his intention was to be able to announce it today or on Wednesday, but the difficulties that Yolanda DÃaz’s platform is encountering to accommodate Podemos is slowing down the rest of the negotiations. It must be remembered that they are parallel negotiations between the trusted people of the vice president and the purple ones, on the one hand, and Sumar with each of the parties with territorial power, on the other.
Sources from the Valencian negotiation explain that some hurdle has been overcome and that a certain “balance” has been reached between the starting positions of some and others after a weekend in which they have not stopped making contacts. On the table, it seems that there is the proposal that CompromÃs lead the three constituencies or that the Valencianistas cede the electoral poster for Valencia to a prestigious independent.
Thus, it is not closed and the state negotiation (Sumar-Podemos) can alter those balances. How the role of Sumar is distributed will be key in the medium and long term in Valencian politics, since with Unides Podem out of the regional Parliament, the three councils and the main town halls, the reordering of forces to the left of the PSPV will be evident.
Until the dissolution of the Corts, first, and of Congress, a few days ago, CompromÃs had 17 regional deputies and 1 a national deputy and Unides Podem, with 8 representatives in Les Corts and 4 parliamentarians in the Lower House. In a few days, the purple part may be reduced to its maximum expression, leaving the ground free for CompromÃs to retain the hegemony of space in the Valencian Community.
A strategy that, by the way, is not clear to everyone in CompromÃs. In Més CompromÃs there is still a small group that does not want to join what they call the “Madrid left” and ask that the militancy be consulted. From the formation they confirm to La Vanguardia that there will not be a telematic vote but that they will try to get the National Council, the highest body between congresses, to validate the imminent agreement with Sumar.
In parallel to these negotiations between parties, the PSPV will also have to undertake its own, behind closed doors, to draw up the first electoral lists it makes after losing institutional power in the Valencian Community. The statutes indicate that the provincial executives are the ones who propose the names of the candidates to the federal committee.
In the autonomic ones, the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, did and undid without impediments. He has already said that he wants to lead the opposition, although I am sure that, now, the provincial barons (especially those of Alicante and Valencia) want to say theirs in the negotiation. It will not be a train wreck, but it can show how the socialist party is rebalancing. Ferraz will also want to give his names; In fact, the virtual number one for Valencia of Minister Diana Morant is her decision, as well as the return of the former all-powerful Minister of Public Works and Secretary General of the PSOE, Jossé Luis Ãbalos.
Precisely thinking about that future in an internal key, it is decisive who presides over the Diputación de València. The same body that must propose the candidates for the general lists is the one that has already come forward to unanimously propose that the mayor of Mislata, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, preside over the provincial institution.
Bielsa has not stood idly by and has already made a first contact with the party of his former party partner, Jorge RodrÃguez, who has the key to hand over the Provincial Council, the most important institution that aspires to lead the left in the next legislature.
