The first woman to lead the PSPV-PSOE, Diana Morant, is a minister with the soul of a mayor who takes the reins of the second socialist federation in Spain in number of militants with the aim of winning the elections in 2027 and recovering the Generalitat that now They manage PP and Vox.
Born in Gandia (Valencia) 43 years ago, Morant is ratified as general secretary of the Valencian socialists this weekend of the extraordinary congress held in Benicàssim (Castellón), after having been proclaimed on February 7 as the only candidate after the withdrawal of the other two candidates.
The seventh person to take the reins of the PSPV-PSOE is a Telecommunications engineer who those who know her define as a very rational person who likes to solve problems, perhaps because of her academic training that is also reflected in her hobbies. like mystery novels or puzzles.
She came into politics thirteen years ago thanks to the then mayor of Gandia, José Manuel Orengo, who, in one of the meetings he held with people outside the party, was struck by this engineer who worked in a home automation company and signed her. as an independent for the list of the 2011 municipal elections.
The socialists lost the mayorship of Gandia in those elections, but the new councilor did not hesitate to start painting the headquarters and give it a new look within the process of reinvention of a group that a year later appointed her Secretary of Organization, at which time she joined the party.
However, he considers that his values ??have always coincided with those of socialism, since he comes from a humble family – his grandparents were servants and his mother was taken out of school to learn a trade – and if he was able to study a career it was thanks to the scholarships he received. implemented by the PSOE Government, which is why it understands politics as a tool for social transformation.
When Orengo took a step back in 2014, Diana Morant replaced him as general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE of Gandia and spokesperson for the municipal group, where she stood up to a mayor, Arturo Torró (PP), who called her a girl in plenary sessions, and whom he would end up taking over a year later at the age of 35.
For that 2015 electoral campaign, he managed to take the general secretary of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, to a rally in Gandia, whom he had met a year before when he was immersed in his primary campaign and gave him the surprise of introducing him to the members of La Habitat. Roja, the Valencian indie group that the person who would later become President of the Government liked.
Although the socialists came in second place, Morant won the mayoralty thanks to the support of Més Gandia and Ciudadanos, a position that he revalidated in 2019 with a candidacy whose presentation was attended by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whom he considers his “political father”, because he does not forget the emotion with which he experienced the recount on election night in 2004.
After six years in the mayor’s office, where she placed a lot of emphasis on education, equality and social services policies, she made the leap to national politics in July 2021, when Pedro Sánchez remodeled his Government and introduced a profile of young female mayors, among whom included her as Minister of Science and Innovation.
Morant carried out her new responsibility with the same dedication with which she cared about the affairs of her municipality, as “minister mayor”, and after the general elections of July 2023, in which she was the head of the list for Congress for Valencia, Sánchez revalidated her in the position and also added the powers of Universities.
When Ximo Puig announced his step back as general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE last December, Ferraz supported the option of Diana Morant for succession, who has integrated the other two candidates, Alejandro Soler and Carlos Fernández Bielsa, as president and vice-secretary of the match, respectively.
Morant comes to office with the desire to apply a new way of doing politics, far from conspiracies and confrontations between ‘families’, since he conceives it as a public service, and with the intention of recovering the Generalitat in the next legislature, as he achieved with the mayor of his hometown.
Single and without children, she is very devoted to her nieces, she likes family life and eating healthy, she practices yoga and pilates, she is linked to the world of the Fallas in Gandia and considers that everything she has done in life has led her to this moment: that of taking the reins of the PSPV-PSOE.
