Once it has been decided who will soon replace Ximo Puig at the head of the PSPV, it remains to unite a federation that is still fractured in many sensitivities, what in politics is known as families. That is the objective that Minister Diana Morant has set for herself after managing, thanks to pressure from Ferraz, to convince her organic rivals to form a single candidacy for the extraordinary congress to be held at the end of March. The candidate, and also the federal leadership of the PSOE, want this congress to close with majority support for the new Valencian socialist project, without leaving open wounds that could generate tensions in Morant’s leadership.
The minister stated yesterday that she wants to “end the families now; the family is the Socialist Party.” But it is one thing to say it and another to achieve it. Alejandro Soler, leader of the PSPV in Alicante, and his counterpart in Valencia, Carlos Ferández Bielsa, continue negotiating their share of power in the future executive. Socialist sources recognize that Diana Morant must also have control of the organization area. From there, the distribution of powers is being worked on so that, finally, no one is unbalanced excessively according to their organic power. It is likely that Soler or Bielsa will occupy the presidency of the party and the other a deputy secretary. For now, the gestures between them and Morant are going in the right direction.
The future leader of the PSPV has organized a grassroots campaign for the congress in which she has hired a person of Soler’s greatest confidence as coordinator. An example of her willingness to integrate. In addition, she has scheduled events with her two rivals in different Valencian cities.
Morant also cleared up some doubts yesterday. The most important thing is that, for the moment, he does not plan to give up his ministry because, he added, “I will have time for everything.” He recalled that Carlos Mazón, current Valencian president, “was president of the Alicante Provincial Council and was general secretary of his party” before becoming president of the Generalitat Valenciana. “I think it is disrespectful not to recognize that all of us who dedicate ourselves to politics have an organic space and we have an institutional space; falls within normality. Maybe what they don’t want is to have a minister who is also dedicated to confronting them,” he added.
