The plan is drawn up, now it remains for the execution and the complicated combination of such disparate interests to bear fruit. The intention to create a confederation of independent municipal parties that concentrate their votes and can have options for representation in the councils – as is already happening in Valencia, where the vote of Ens Uneix in the judicial party of Ontinyent was key to giving the presidency to the PP – is taking shape.
The mayor of Nules, David García, who last weekend was elected president of a municipalist confederation at the state level with the name of Unión Municipalista, explained this Friday in À Punt details of his project in the Valencian Community.
Nules pointed out on regional television that the work teams – the initiative is promoted by García and the mayor of Ontinyent, Jorge Rodríguez, and has the support of mayors such as Oliva or Calp – will appoint coordinators in those of different judicial parties. -where the town councils are grouped together to elect provincial deputies- with the intention of prioritizing those districts with the greatest possibility of obtaining the provincial act.
In red, he explained to this newspaper, there are up to four judicial parties where they understand that they can fight with PP, PSPV Compromís and Vox. This is the case of the Nules judicial party that distributes five minutes (now the PP has three and the PSPV, 2) and which groups municipalities such as Nules, Borriana, Vall d’Uixó, Onda or Moncofa. They also believe that they could fight for the deputy of Morella, since there are up to six independent mayors and try their luck in the judicial party of Castellón, which is the one that distributes the most with 14.
To do this, the idea is to unify the candidates with an umbrella name that will later allow the votes to be added for the provincial count. Thus, for example, a second mark would be added to the ballot of your party (Centrats in Nules) that would be repeated in all the independent parties that ultimately make up the confederation.
The other main objective is the judicial district of Dénia, where the municipalities of the Marina Alta are grouped and which distribute three provincial deputies. Calp is Mayor Ana Sala, who participates in the initiative, although it will not be easy to unseat Compromís, which has a strong presence in this region.
Another of the objectives set by this initiative is to be able to present an independent candidacy in the 2027 Valencia City Council elections. For this, as David García explains to this newspaper, the historic Fermín Artagoitia, who was a CDS councilor in the City Council and who later joined the ranks of Unió Valenciana, is already working for this. In the last elections he was on the Ciudadanos lists.
Entering the Town Hall of the cap i casal is very difficult and many projects have been slammed against the walls of the Town Hall despite having financial resources. However, the idea is to establish itself in València and its metropolitan area (there have already been meetings in Torrent and Benetússer) taking advantage of the political gap left by Ciudadanos that has made some former councilors, who have not switched to the PP, feel orphans.
And the new confederation tries to play with the wild card of “mainstreaming”, something that is more feasible in local politics but that, when it grows, forces it to position itself politically as happened to Ens Uneix at the time of deciding the presidency of the Provincial Council of Valencia.
It also seems very complicated that this project could have a translation into regional policy given that the 5% barrier is a very high bar for most political options. For this reason, David García demands time: “The decision on whether we will run for regional elections will be made two years from now.”
