The pact has already been finalized. The one who will be the new general secretary of the PSPV in the coming weeks, Diana Morant, announced this Saturday, during a visit to the Sant Blai de Torrent festival, that her rivals in the primaries until they retire after a long meeting in Ferraz will be at her side in the new executive. Alejandro Soler from Alicante will be the new president of the party (a more symbolic position) while Carlos Fernández Bielsa from Valencia will be the deputy general secretary. As they had requested, the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities detailed.
This confirms that Morant will maintain, as he wanted, the Organization area, basic for the control of the party. The fight to have this plot was what lengthened and tense the meeting last Tuesday in Madrid and what meant that it did not leave there with more commitment than that of Morant’s sole candidacy. Furthermore, everything indicates that the minister also reserves, for people of her closest confidence, the areas of Institutional Policy and those with more political weight.
The announcement of the distribution was made in the town of Torrent and Morant wanted to baptize it as the Torrent pact, to deflect criticism that questions that the three-way agreement that caused the withdrawal of the two pre-candidates was closed at a table in Ferraz. , 350 kilometers from the PSPV headquarters.
During his speech before the militancy, Morant defended that “voting is as democratic as reaching an agreement” and he thanked Soler and Bielsa for their “generosity.” In fact, he has promised, to those who were his rivals, “co-governance” in the party.
After making clear her intentions to be the future candidate – “we will be the party that makes a woman president of the Generalitat” -, Morant wanted to indicate that “it is the time for young people” and that “everything begins today.” In their interventions, Soler and Bielsa have also made clear their intentions to support the minister in the race that begins today towards 2027.
After a week of internal tensions that began with three candidates to replace Ximo Puig and that ended with the minister’s sole candidacy, after the intermediation of Ferraz, the socialists have tried to display this Tuesday in Torrent an image of unity, many smiles and lots of applause.
