“- Tomorrow a new stage opens in the PSPV?”
“- Yeah”
“- Will you be at the forefront of this new stage?”
“- More tomorrow”
With this exchange of questions and answers, the general secretary of the PSPV and former president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, has advanced this Friday his intention to open a new stage in the party that he has led since 2012. “These days the Socialist Party is going to take important decisions,” he said in statements to journalists, later clarifying that “each stage has its dynamics” and that “new winds, changes and new leaderships” are needed. An obvious message in a few days that are presumed to be key for Valencian socialism.
Along these lines, the leader of the PSPV wanted to clarify that he will not be “an obstacle” to that “step forward” that his party has to take, although he has avoided specifying how it will be staged. The PSPV plans to hold its National Committee this Saturday, the first to be held after the electoral defeat of the municipal and regional elections, and Puig wants to explain the roadmap to his militancy, before making any other public announcement.
The call, which will also be attended by the Secretary of Federal Organization, Santos Cerdán, has raised many expectations (and also tension) because in addition to the new stage that Puig has confirmed will open, it remains to be seen how the Valencian socialists, very given to the internal battle, face your internal renewal.
On the table is the possibility (which everyone takes for granted in the not too distant future) that he will abandon his position as PSPV deputy in Les Corts. It must be taken into account that Puig is also a territorial senator and was recently appointed president of the Budget Committee of the Upper House, so it is complicated – but not incompatible – to simultaneously hold both positions.
The final decision on his political future will also be pending for the next few days, since Puig has the offer on the table to be Spain’s ambassador in Paris of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). A possibility that would distance him from the leadership of the PSPV and that would definitively open the succession melon.
All these uncertainties have generated a lot of uncertainty in a party that, in addition, has seen how two of its references – two former Puig councilors who were appointed after the defeat as spokesperson and deputy spokesperson for the parliamentary group in Les Corts – have left Valencian politics to become secretaries of state.
