What does Mónica Oltra think about the storm that has been generated between CompromÃs and Podemos regarding the presentation in Madrid of Yolanda DÃaz’s Sumar a few weeks before the Valencian regional and local elections? What does Mónica Oltra think about the crossing of harsh accusations between both formations: with Héctor Illueca and Pablo Iglesias blaming CompromÃs for having dynamited the possibility of an agreement with Yolanda DÃaz, or Joan Baldovà charging Pablo Iglesias with whom he accuses of trying to make it fail Add project? Does Mónica Oltra think that this confrontation with its epicenter in Madrid and that it affects two of the three legs of the Botà nic could have negative effects on 28M in order to guarantee the continuity of the Valencian left-wing project?
The story is already known. Mónica Oltra left her institutional and organic positions last June due to the judicial investigation that has made her a suspect in the alleged cover-up of the case of abuse by her ex-husband of a minor under guardianship. Since then, and with some exceptions, such as the interview she gave Gonzo in La Sexta, the former president has kept absolute silence about the events that affect Valencian and Spanish politics. We do not know, therefore, what she thinks about many things that are happening and that can happen. It is not about any person, we are talking about the woman who between 2011 and 2015 led the opposition against the Valencian PP, who symbolized the political change in the Valencian Community after 20 years of popular governments, and who has been co-protagonist for almost two legislatures, together with Ximo Puig, from the El Botà nic project.
It is good to go to the newspaper library and remember how Mónica Oltra’s opinion was decisive in the pacts that CompromÃs reached with other political forces for the general elections. For example, for the legislative elections of November 2015, CompromÃs went to the polls together with Podemos, with a result of nine deputies (four for CompromÃs, four for Podemos and one independent, Rosana Pastor). Exit. This was not the case for the general elections of 10N 2019. Mónica Oltra was betting on assembling a coalition with Podemos, but the CompromÃs executive rejected it and opted for the alliance with Iñigo Errejón and Más PaÃs. The Valencianistas only obtained one seat in Congress, that of Joan BladovÃ. There were very bad moods in those dates in the Valencian coalition.
Mónica Oltra was also the first leader of the Spanish left to schedule an act in favor of Yolanda DÃaz, an act that staged the embryonic process of uniting the left that the Vice President of the Government was assembling. She and she did it in Valencia, at the Teatro Olimpia. It happened on November 13, 2021, and Ada Colau, Fatima Hamed, and Mónica GarcÃa also participated. In Més CompromÃs, the former Bloc, the majority force of CompromÃs, did not like the initiative of the former Valencian vice president at all. At that time, it was even thought that Mónica Oltra could have jumped into the Sumar project, an extreme that she always denied. The judicial investigation ended up also separating Mónica Oltra from any subsequent manifestation of public support for Yolanda DÃaz.
We do not know what he thinks and, therefore, what he would say about the fracture that has opened between CompromÃs and Podemos, with collateral effects in the Valencian Community, as we have already indicated, a few weeks after an appointment in which the Botà nic is at stake its continuity. But based on what has happened in the past, it seems reasonable to think that Mónica Oltra would have supported Sumar’s project but without breaking all the bridges with Podemos. It’s just a hypothesis. Let us remember that she was always, before Yolanda DÃaz, a political leader open to adding all possible lefts to the left of the PSOE, as well as in the Valencian Community (what is it if not the Botà nic where all possible lefts have agreed, from the PSPV to CompromÃs – Més CompromÃs, Iniciativa PV and Es Verds -, Podem and Esquerra Unida?) as in Spain.
Mónica Oltra has not said anything, and it does not seem that she is going to say anything before 28M. But I am one of those who would like to know your opinion at a time when the political change that began in 2015 in the Valencian Community depends more than ever on the strategic intelligence of the left as opposed to a motivated right (PP and Vox). Little by little, everyone is assuming the framework that defines that what happens in the Valencian 28M is going to have direct effects on Spanish politics, on the next general elections and on the future of Pedro Sánchez. What does Monica Oltra think? I don’t know about you, but I would like to know.
