After the leftists were defeated on 28-M, the ex-partners of the Pacte del Botà nic will soon start the competition for 23-J with all the complicities broken. Nothing to do with the regional and local election campaign, in which the three forces in dispute ended up, PSPV, CompromÃs and Unides Podem, sailing in the same direction, despite the initial attacks, mainly by Héctor Illueca against Joan Baldovà , after the episode of April 2 in Magariños with the presentation of Sumar de Yolanda DÃaz.
Politics has acquired the speed of an electric car with batteries at full capacity, and the call for Pedro Sánchez’s general elections has barely given him time to heal the wounds of last Sunday, to analyze the causes in detail and to draw conclusions for subsequent battles. The imminent electoral appointment, in a few weeks, forces to paralyze debates and speed up decisions that, this time, will turn the Valencian left into tough rivals.
The President of the Government has once again shown himself daring in a very risky bet that catches a large part of his troops with a damaged spirit. In the Valencian case, it is the same troop that not long ago believed it was possible to maintain the presidency of the Generalitat in the hands of Ximo Puig, an objective that was lost, among several keys, due to the weakness shown by its travel partners, especially Unides. Podem, which has ceased to be part of the institutions.
This result has distanced, and a lot, the Valencianists from the Podemites; If before 28-M the relationship was already tense, now it is non-existent. CompromÃs will go to the polls of the generals integrated into the Sumar project of Yolanda DÃaz. They were the first of the confluence forces to start negotiations. In a certain way, the formation of Joan Baldovà would almost prefer that Podemos stay on the sidelines. The reasons are multiple and profound. The Valencian left is settling scores.
The PSPV, in line with the objective of its national leader, wants to bring together the majority of the vote of the left, appealing, as Pedro Sánchez has done without verbalizing it, to the useful vote. The federation led by Ximo Puig now sees its ex-members as a problem, as parties that have collaborated to decapitalize a project, that of the Botà nic, which could have had a third edition, due to a lack of pragmatism, of possibility.
A good result of the PSOE on 23-J would give oxygen to the Valencian socialists in their work of opposition to the great power achieved by the PP in almost all the Valencian institutions. But even with Pedro Sánchez failing, the PSPV could establish itself as a key federation of Spanish socialism if it maintains or even exceeds the number of votes achieved in the regional and local elections. If Alberto Núñez Feijóo reaches the presidency of the government, a tough internal process will begin in the PSOE, with several federations, such as Madrid, Andalusia or the Basque, in low hours. The Valencian socialists would have an opportunity to increase their qualitative weight.
23-J is not only a second round for Feijóo and Sánchez, it is also for the Valencian parties that have faced each other on 28-M. A comfortable victory for the popular against the Valencian left would not only confirm the change of cycle, but also that it could take a long time, with the left walking through the desert yearning for the oasis of a new opportunity.
The opposite, that the Valencian left still shows muscle, would serve as a balm for these same forces, especially for the PSPV, whose previous autonomic defeat plunged it into despair and tragedy. But whatever happens, the Valencian left will break bridges except where they must maintain them to survive, as in the Valencia Provincial Council.
PS: Diana Morant is running as head of the PSOE list for Valencia for the general elections. Sometimes I wonder if it would not be convenient for the parties to value the ability to answer and irreverence for the benefit of the Valencians of those who are going to occupy a seat in Madrid, even more so in a party that is described as federalist.
