The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, is already the new secretary of the PSPV after gathering the minimum endorsements necessary to endorse her candidacy. The regulations of the Extraordinary Congress stated that in the event of a single pre-candidacy and if the minimum number of endorsements were presented, the National Ethics Commission would proclaim the aspiring general secretary of the Valencian federation, the second largest in all of Spain, “without the need for vote”. And so she has been after collecting the minimum of 6% of the necessary guarantees.
This Wednesday, to celebrate her proclamation, the PSPV set up a stage from which the new leader addressed the attendees. Morant has vindicated the figure of Ximo Puig and the policies of the Government of Spain in favor of social cohesion. “We are here to make possible the dream of all people of having a decent life whether or not they have money in their pockets,” she said.
The socialist leader has defended public services and has championed the feminist struggle against the denialism of the right and the extreme right.
Given that there has been no primary vote, to check the internal solidity of the agreements and the integration of the different families and currents we will have to wait for the congress that the Valencian socialists will hold in Benicàssim on March 22, 23 and 24. There the new executive will be voted on and approved. Diana Morant has expressed her desire for broad congressional support to confirm the strength of the organic pact that was reached to make her the only candidate.
That is what the federal leadership, and the outgoing regional leadership, wanted, in order not to open new internal wars in a party that is still recovering from the shock of having gone into opposition and that has had to anticipate a renewal that was not so planned. soon. It has not been easy to reach an agreement, in fact two other pre-candidacies were presented, but finally the pressure from Ferraz (as well as the confirmation of support from both parties) led Alejandro Soler and Carlos Fernández Bielsa to throw in the towel.
An agreement that was reached last week in Madrid and was sealed in Torrent where the rivals signed their endorsement for Morant in their own handwriting. In exchange, the general secretary of the PSPV of Alicante, Alejandro Soler, will be the president of the party and the leader in the province of Valencia, Fernández Bielsa, the deputy general secretary. Now one of the pending keys is to know who will be the secretary of the Organization. Party sources emphasize that she will most likely be a woman who, in addition, generates consensus among all the families of Valencian socialism.
