Two pieces of news, which were known on Thursday. Both, of important importance for Compromís, at a time when everything takes on dimension, even too much, in the hectic Valencian and Spanish politics. The first was verbalized by Àgueda Micó, deputy in Congress and former general secretary of Més Compromís: the coalition will demand for the investiture agreement with the PSOE that “legality be complied with” and the paralysis of the expansion of the Port of València be maintained ” until all the environmental and mobility guarantees are in place to avoid the collapse of the city.” The sentences are literal.
The second takes us to the recent past. The judicial police have analyzed almost 50,000 emails from the department headed by Mónica Oltra. A colossal job in which no indication has been found that the former vice president or any of the members of her team accused of her (13) tried to hide or protect Oltra’s ex-husband, convicted of sexual abuse of a minor . It is one more piece of evidence of the investigation, one more, yes, but important, and one that adds to others that, for the moment, exonerate the former leader of Compromís from guilt. Let’s let Justice take its course and we’ll see what other steps the investigating judge takes, but let’s be very attentive.
Two news, at the same moment. In the first Compromís seems to have accepted the framework of the debate in which the right and its highest institutional representatives have turned the expansion of the Port of Valencia into a strategic element of Sánchez’s investiture. That is, a story according to which the leader of the PSOE would be negotiating with Junts and ERC to stop the expansion of the Valencian Port in exchange for support for his investiture; extreme east that both pro-independence parties and La Moncloa have denied to this newspaper. It is true, however, that ERC has always been against the expansion of the Port of Valencia.
Compromís has always been against the expansion being carried out, even more so without there being a new Environmental Impact Statement, EIA. What is surprising is that now, in the middle of a complex negotiation and a few days before October 9, the date on which all the good and bad passions of Valencians emanate, the coalition makes this issue a condition for supporting the investiture, when it does Just three days into their list of conditions – financing, debt, etc. – the Port did not appear.
They say from Compromís that it is a “conscious” decision to “stop the right and the interests of certain businessmen”, in reference to the employers’ lobby interested in continuing to grow the port. But what is not clear is the moment, because the moment is always a political category. The Valencian party argues that the right has managed to generate in the Valencian ecosystem a framework for discussion about the Port, “which places those who do not defend its expansion on the side of the Catalan and anti-Valencianists,” they say, and that this is not always the case. same nor do they go in parallel.
Has it been a miscalculation by Compromís? Has the Valencian coalition achieved the desired effect or have they ended up giving the right wing room and more oxygen to criticize its behavior? Does it make sense to force the discussion of the Port in the investiture negotiation when not even Pedro Sánchez has given, neither now nor before, a convincing response to the financing or the Valencian historical debt? What role does Yolanda Díaz play in a matter in which Compromís has given her all the leading role in the negotiation of its “Valencian agenda”?”
Let’s go back to the second news. In some way, and always with nuances, the judicial investigation is favoring Mónica Oltra. The woman who starred in the political change of 2015 and who was the authority of Compromís for almost a decade, can observe the horizon with some hope. It also happens that the former vice president decided a long time ago to stay out of political life.
Today he works in a law firm and has avoided, since his resignation from all positions, speaking out on any political aspect. But at this point, sometimes, it is worth wondering if Mónica Oltra would have taken the step that the current Compromís management has taken to negotiate the investiture with Pedro Sánchez.
