The extraordinary congress of the Party of Socialists of the Valencian Country (PSPV) held in Benicassim will officially proclaim Diana Morant today as the new general secretary of the socialist federation. The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, who has been the only candidate to replace Ximo Puig, will thus confirm a leadership that has had the support of Pedro Sánchez and the group of loyalists to the former Valencian president. Its proclamation will be the act prior to the voting of the new executive that is being created and in which all the families of Valencian socialism are expected to be integrated.
In particular, those of the provincial general secretaries of Valencia and Alicante, Carlos Fernández Bielsa and Alejandro Soler, who resigned from presenting a primary candidacy in exchange for achieving representation in the new executive: Bielsa will be vice-secretary and Soler president of the PSPV, and it remains to be known which of its faithful will have power in the new governing bodies of the party.
Yesterday afternoon, Diana Morant was finalizing the composition of the executive that will be announced and voted on today and whose maximum expectation is to know who will be in charge of the Organization secretariat. Sources close to the minister indicate that this will be an executive in which in the main positions of responsibility there will be people of her utmost confidence. Being a member of the Government obliges Morant to have a team that can work daily without her presence. However, yesterday there were nerves among some families as they did not know if they would be able to be part of the new executive.
Today, Ximo Puig, who has led the PSPV for twelve years, eight of these as Valencian president, will make his farewell speech. Puig is now Spain’s ambassador to the OECD. Tomorrow, at the closing, Pedro Sánchez will speak. Two more ministers also participate in the conclave: Pilar Alegría and María Jesús Montero, a sign of the Executive’s support for the minister. Diana Morant will also announce tomorrow her strategic line to lead the federation and to try to recover the Generalitat Valenciana in 2027
