The result of the primaries and the victory in extremis of Aitana Mas in Alicante have prevented the implosion of Compromís, with the obvious aftershocks that it would have had within the Valencian government. However, the differences that the internal process has revealed not only have not disappeared but continue latent; although it is true that now they will hide to try to calmly face the electoral process and reissue the left-wing government that is being formed together with the PSPV and Unides Podem.
The primaries have served to renew the leadership and definitively open the post-Mónica Oltra stage. A new era in which, taking advantage of the absence of the Iniciativa leader, the new batch of Més Compromís leaders have demonstrated their control of the coalition. The candidates closest to the leadership of the formation headed by Àgueda Micó have been those who have achieved the best results, especially those young people like Cesc Roig (the most voted on the Valencia list) or M.J. Calabuig (who will go three for Alicante). The renovation is important, and more than half of the parliamentary group of the 2023-2027 legislature will change.
“Fortunately, in its day we put the reservations of plurality,” explained a person in charge of Initiative to La Vanguardia. It has not been an easy process for Oltra’s party, which has had to deal with the internal fracture that once led to the dismissal of the former Minister of Agriculture Mireia Mollà. In addition to Mas, the leaders of the ecosocialist formation that have achieved the best results are those closest to Més Compromís, such as Carles Esteve (who will go three for Valencia) and Verònica Ruiz (two for Castellón). The current Minister of Agriculture, Isaura Navarro, will be in the so-called suffering posts.
“This tendency to corner plurality in the Bloc 2.0 is worrying,” they wield in Initiative. And it is that, despite the result, the vice president of the Consell does not come out particularly strengthened from this stake, since she gives the feeling that she is still alive politically due to a favor from her partners.
For this reason, from the ecosocialist formation they fed the debate on the suitability of the primaries. They pointed out that they have been “perverted” as an instrument that broke the mold and served to mobilize the leftist electorate. From Mas’s environment they even pointed out that people from other parties had participated in the process and focused on the fact that the process could be adulterated if these practices take root.
Others simply pointed out that the primaries have become a kind of “Save me from politics” and gave as an example the dissemination of some campaign videos that looked more like “a Goya candidacy than a political candidacy.” “The model is exhausted” or “the primaries have served to transfer the old party vices abroad” were some of the comments that were heard yesterday by the members of the Initiative.
However, from Més Compromís they believe that the process has been resolved positively. They believe that the coalition cannot opt ??for the finger-picking and imposition practiced by other parties. They do not even see convenient mixed formulas that allow the ministers to secure a position on the lists: “The ministers are chosen by the executives and that would mean legitimizing what an address chooses by hand.” Of the four ministers that Compromís has in the Government, only two will be in the candidacies, and one does not have an easy time entering.
They admit this generational change with the entry of young people who they understand are called to lead the project in the future, but they believe that the final preparation of the lists combines the different sensibilities of the party well, although the control of the coalition by Més is out of all doubt.
They do admit that the vote has had negative effects, such as the expulsion from the starting positions of historical references such as Enric Morera. A miscalculation for which the people of Micó hold the president of the Corts responsible, who, they point out, has not even won in his Oliva group. “He trusted himself,” they point out.
However, they admit that it will be necessary to find an accommodation for him in the future and they already suggest that a new electoral cycle is now beginning and the possibility of placing him on future electoral lists is opening up.
