Les Corts Valencianes dress up today to inaugurate the XI legislature and the change of cycle in the Valencian Community. After eight years of left-wing governments, the PP and Vox pact, which begins this Monday with the formation of the Mesa de Les Corts, opens a legislature where the right will hold executive power and the majority in Parliament and in the most important cities . With Les Corts constituted, the calendar for the investiture of Carlos Mazón as president of the Generalitat will begin to run.
The entry of Vox into the governing body of the legislative chamber -directly to the highest position, the Presidency of Les Corts- and the visit of its national leader, Santiago Abascal, to validate and claim the pact with the PP (the Valencian is the model that you want to export to all of Spain) are the best examples of a new stage where parliamentary groups will have to reinvent themselves.
The regional elections have placed the PP as the majority force with 40 deputies and Vox with 13. These parliamentarians will be the transmission belt of the new coalition government in which, at the mercy of the agreement reached by both parties, the PP will control seven ministries and The economic weight of the Consell and Vox will enjoy a vice presidency with the powers of culture and the ministries of Justice and Agriculture.
Of this organization chart only two names are known – that of the future president, Carlos Mazón, and the one who will be his number two, the former bullfighter Vicente Barreda. Also the content of an agreement with up to 50 measures that has put the popular ones in a bind who, unlike their partners, have not taken too much chest out of their content. The quick agreement in Valencia has not had replicas, for the moment, in other autonomies.
For the concretion of the names of the new Consell, it will be necessary to wait a few days since it will be the new Board of Les Corts (with a conservative majority) that is constituted today that will decide whether to advance or delay the investiture of Mazón, scheduled, in principle, for the week of July 17-21. To all this, it must be remembered that there are general elections on 23-J and now it is the conjunction of PP and Vox that is being put to the test and the one that must adjust the calendar to their interests.
With executive power and local hegemony, the PP will have to think of a parliamentary group designed to defend the administration and contain the opposition. There are no names on the table for the spokesperson in the Chamber, although logic suggests that –in a group with a lot of newcomers- if a fighting and experienced parliamentarian is sought, the chosen one could be Miguel Barrachina. The deputy from Castellón, who has also had experience in Congress, has been the director of the successful campaign of the Valencian PP, and one of the people who has been in the negotiations to form a government.
The configuration of the Vox group is even more complicated to predict. The far-right formation has maintained secrecy until the end, even among its deputies so as not to have leaks, of the name that they will designate to occupy the Presidency of Parliament. Based on this and that those who access the Executive, a group that no longer has to oppose will have to be reorganized and it will be necessary to see how it adapts to the defense more than to the attack of the political adversary.
The opposite that will happen to the PSPV, which the electoral result has left with 31 deputies and with profiles more designed to govern than to make a tough opposition. Again, the appointment of the president of Les Corts will mark the configuration of the parliamentary group, because depending on whether it is a man or a woman, the Socialists will have to choose their representatives (always of the same sex as the one chosen by Vox) in the governing body of the Hemicycle.
However, for this new stage, the Socialists have begun to promote the still acting Minister of Territorial Policy, Rebeca Torró, who was already ‘two’ on the list for Valencia. It would not be ruled out that she was the new trustee of a group that will have to compete with Compromís -and with a seasoned Joan Baldoví- for leading the opposition to the new government of PP and Vox.
Although the most interesting movement in a socialist key is that of Ximo Puig, which this newspaper has already explained. The general secretary of the PSPV is considering becoming a territorial senator once the general elections are over. The full election of the representatives of Les Corts to the Upper House could take place the last week of July or the first of August. Of course, without giving up his act of regional deputy, which would allow him to have one foot in Madrid (where things can happen after 23-J) and another in Valencia (where they are already happening). A movement that would make it possible to fulfill what he said after losing the elections, but achieve more votes and seats: lead the opposition.
In Compromís, for its part, with 15 deputies, things are clearer. Baldoví will carry the flag of the opposition while fingers are crossed so that Sumar’s experiment turns out well and the ground is cleared for the Valencianist coalition on its left given its aspiration to become the big house of the entire Valencian and Valencianist left.
Baldoví’s lieutenants are still not clear because Compromís will even present a candidate for the Table today in case the PP becomes generous and gives him a position. If this is not the case, Aitana Mas, Vicent Marzà and Paula Espinosa have all the ballots to integrate that group leadership that aspires to regain momentum from the opposition already thinking about the 2027 appointment.
