The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, was officially proclaimed this morning as the new general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE, replacing Ximo Puig, during the extraordinary congress that the PSPV-PSOE is holding in Benicàssim (Castellón). This is the first time in history that a woman leads Valencian socialism.
Morant was provisionally proclaimed as the new leader of the party on February 7, after her candidacy remained the only one after the withdrawal of the other two candidates, Alejandro Soler and Carlos Fernández Bielsa, and has now been ratified in this responsibility in the first day of the conclave that concludes tomorrow with the visit of Pedro Sánchez.
After her proclamation, the minister announced that her executive, which will be named this Sunday, will be “a smaller team” than the current one, but she has guaranteed that it will be “very representative” and will have “the mandate to join the rest of the party first, but especially to society.”
“We need a Socialist Party that is strong, to be strong we have to be united and cohesive, and there is no better way to do it than to recognize the leadership that already exists in the territories. So I am going to bring the entire party together,” he said. manifested.
He explained that the executive will be “a first team” to, from then on, “be in every corner of the Valencian Community” and “seek that alternative solution to the problems we have and, above all, the problems that it is generating for us.” the Popular Party”. “That is going to be my team: the entire society that wants to join this progress and this future project,” she stated.
For the also Minister of Science, today begins a new stage in the PSPV “from the hope, but also from the great responsibility of generating that alternative to the most reactionary government that the Valencian Community has ever had and from which the Valencians already suffer.”
“We knew that they had come to apply ideological policies of regression that many of us at our age had only known through the testimonies of our grandparents,” he denounced, pointing to “censorship”, to “remove Valencian from the classrooms”, to “return to monopolizing the media to control them.
In short, Morant has stated that “we are talking about the usual PP in its new version, just in a week where the usual PP has once again been sitting on the bench being held accountable for corruption”, in reference to the trial of the ‘former president’. of the Generalitat Eduardo Zaplana for the Erial case.
Faced with this, he has promised to form a “real alternative to be a containment dam for these retrograde policies, but above all to be hope for a better future”, with the aim of returning to a progressive government like the one chaired by Ximo Puig “of again to govern the happiness of the Valencians.
Before his proclamation, Ximo Puig intervened to say goodbye to militancy. The former Valencian president, current ambassador of Spain to the OECD, has indicated that he leaves them “in very good hands”, while pointing out that “neither distance will be absence, nor will prudent silence be forgetfulness.”
He has also addressed those who “predicted the apocalypse” in the PSPV and who said that “we would enter into an internal struggle.” But the Valencian socialist party, he pointed out, “is turned outwards and has made our adversaries who wanted a useless PSPV and a free highway for barbarism fail” and added that “they are not going to have it.”
In this congress, he stated, “a new agreement will be sealed with the bases of political audacity, the breaking of internal dogmas and a new pact with society.” And it is time, he said, to renew teams with “solid, modern and unstoppable leadership, that of Diana Morant.”
A minister, he noted, who will be the first general secretary of the party. An “anomaly that we are going to correct” as well as the fact that “we have not had a female president in the Generalitat.” Puig has pointed out that today a 12-year cycle closes and “another cycle of combative hope” begins that comes in a “different” situation, with shorter political cycles and in which we are “only 30,000 votes away from the right of the left.” That past, he added, “is there and is a strength for the future that now begins.”
Now, he indicated, a stage of “internal cohesion” is opening and with a leader “more prepared than ever” and he has advocated for self-criticism and analysis but to “invigorate the project and see where we come from and where we are.”
“We have known how to be reborn together and reverse a negative trend” that led the socialists to achieve the Generalitat 20 years later and “to become a reference party based on respect, unity and integration with always defending the Valencian interests and with the aim of bringing together majorities”.
And he has reviewed some milestones achieved by the PSPV at the head of the Generalitat in the last eight years with “approved” budgets and with advances in industrialization such as the agreement with Volkswagen for the construction of the gigafactory in Sagunto in favor of “sustainable growth” or the management of the health crisis of the pandemic.
In this sense, he referred to the report that revealed that more than 4,000 elderly people who died in residences in the Community of Madrid “were able to be saved.” While pointing out the same text that in the Valencian Community “2,600 people were saved above the national average.”
“Some opted for the trivialization of opening bars and freedom and some of us collectively assumed responsibility and others thought about the electoral calculator,” he stated.
