Diana Morant, Alejandro Soler and Carlos Fernández Bielsa reached a minimum agreement on Tuesday that placed Pedro Sánchez’s minister as the only candidate for the general secretary of the PSPV. Beyond that, little could be agreed upon in a meeting that had several scenarios: it began in Ferraz, then the Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán, and Soler had to go to Congress to vote, and at night the actors of this film had to be evicted. of the socialist headquarters so as not to have problems with the demonstration that had been called at the doors of the socialist headquarters.
The night ended in a nearby hotel but without an agreement and with the two already retired candidates tightening the screws on the minister who refused to accept the transfer of the most relevant positions of the future executive, above all, the Secretary of Organization. The most incisive, the Alicante leader who seemed to have the complicity of Cerdán; It cannot be ignored that Soler has been a Sanchista from the beginning.
Contacts between the three parties were scheduled to resume in Madrid this Wednesday, but finally, with everyone’s agreement, it was decided to move the negotiation to Valencia. “We don’t need a mediator” (in reference to Santos Cerdán), some pointed out, “there is no need for a referee or VAR,” others added. They understand that there is time to agree on integration until the congress after Morant’s leadership and a minimum respect for all sensitivities are agreed.
Furthermore, the minister’s entourage demanded, after a late night of fruitless contacts, some room to form her own team.
This Tuesday, both Bielsa and Soler recognized and justified their “step aside” in favor of the minister on social networks. The mayor of Mislata argued his decision to “guarantee the unity of an entire party that must be strong to be a real alternative for the future.” “The party needs the strength that comes from unity,” he wrote in X (formerly Twitter).
The Alicante leader Alejandro Soler also used social networks, emphasizing that “he who walks alone will get there quickly, and whoever does it accompanied will go further.” Along these lines, the provincial secretary indicated that he has opted “for dialogue and understanding as the engine of this change that the PSPV-PSOE needs” and defended that “this union is born from consensus and dialogue.”
It is not easy to reconstruct the chronology of the events since each person explains them according to their interests. It seems clear that Ferraz, once the PSPV congress was convened, summoned the three pre-candidates for a meeting this week. It is no longer so clear whether Bielsa decided to go ahead and take advantage of the fact that he was at an event in Madrid on Tuesday to advance his meeting with Santos Cerdán to look for some kind of way out. Nor to what extent did the federal leadership pressure to seal an agreement.
From the other trenches it is pointed out that the mayor of Mislata made this move to seek an agreement with Morant after verifying in recent days that some of the supports he had had gone over to the minister’s side. “Bielsa was not given the numbers and he saw how some of his mayors were not willing to go to war against a minister,” explain sources close to the woman who was mayor of Gandia.
Be that as it may, the truth is that when Bielsa arrived in Ferraz to speak with Santos Cerdán, there he already met Alejandro Soler who, in principle, had said that he had no intention of responding to Ferraz’s call. Sources close to the mayor of Mislata acknowledge that, when he arrived, he could do little because “Soler had reached an agreement with Morant.” Any possible understanding between the two provincial leaders that seemed to have been brewing in recent days was blown up. Had the Alicante leader gone ahead of him, seeking a better position in the negotiation given Morant’s supposed superiority?
The answer depends on who you ask, but the truth is that once an agreement was closed between Morant and Soler, little else could be done. Simply negotiate the integration. A negotiation that is not being easy at all since those responsible for the two candidates who have given up continuing in the race “want to make Morant the executive,” complain sources close to the minister.
That is why last year’s negotiations could not be sealed other than with a brief statement in which it was admitted that: “the candidates for the general secretary of the PSPV of the Valencian Community; Alejandro Soler, Carlos Fernández Bielsa and Diana Morant have reached an agreement through which Diana Morant will be the only candidate for the general secretary of the PSPV in the Extraordinary National Congress to be held from March 22 to 24 in Benicàssim”.
