The PSPV-PSOE candidate for the Presidency of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, has appealed to build an “alternative” from the opposition to build a new progressive government “sooner rather than later” in the Valencian Community.

“There will be other people, there will be other teams,” Puig said in his appearance at the PSPV-PSOE headquarters after the election results, in which he has obtained five more deputies than in 2019, but it has not been enough to revalidate the Botanical before the decreases of Compromís and Unides Podem.

Puig has not ruled on his future, although he has announced that he has summoned a PSPV executive for this Monday. Likewise, he has congratulated the PP candidate, Carlos Mazón, and has asked that the Valencian people not fall into “the tension, the trenches and the division”. “It is time to strengthen coexistence”, he pointed out.

The still ‘president’ of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, has improved his results in 2019, with 32 seats (at 70% of the vote) compared to 27 in 2019, but the declines of Compromís and Unides Podem have made it impossible for a third government of botanist