The first ordinary plenary session of the Valencian legislature seemed like a continuation of the failed investiture of Alberto Nuñez Feijóo and a preview of what will happen when the leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, goes to the Spanish Parliament to try for re-election. The first items on the agenda were monopolized by the possible investiture of the socialist leader, to the point that the Ombudsman of Compromís, Joan Baldoví, wondered if he was still in the Congress of Deputies, where he had records from 2011 to 2023.
His proposal to reform the financing model, which debuted in the regular session of the new legislature, was refuted by the popular Mari Carmen Contelles using Pedro Sánchez as an argument. “You present this initiative while voting servilely with the Government that refuses to implement it”; “will vote ‘yes’ to the government that privileges the coup plotters […] that mistreats the Community” and that “will sell out to the Valencians again.” These were some of the phrases of the popular deputy.
“Don’t talk about Sánchez and explain why you are against our proposal,” the Compromís deputy demanded, but the PP parliamentarian insisted “Sánchez is only going to further sink the Community and you are going to help him.” Even the controversy over the expansion of the Port came to light.
Baldoví took advantage of his turn to reply to ask him to stop “saying nonsense” and to emphasize that the expansion of port infrastructure responds to business interests and that his party opposes it not because of concessions to the independence movement but because of the damage it would cause to the city, to the beaches and L’Albufera.
But the debate about the socialist leader was not limited to a single point. The PNL of the popular ones to reject the amnesty and demand agreements between the majority forces to avoid “the blackmail of the independentists”, served the popular ombudsman, Miguel Barrachina, to criticize the acting president of the Government and charge against the opposition parties Valencian for bending to the interests of the independentistas.
The PP leader asked the PSPV and Compromís to “stop being the doormat of the Catalan separatists and not approve the amnesty as planned by Pedro Sánchez’s government.” Along these lines, he asked them “not to become servants of Pedro Sánchez” since “a new amnesty means recognizing that Spain continues to be a dictatorship.”
A series of accusations that caused discomfort in the PSPV, which regretted that Les Corts wanted to become “a battering ram against the Government of Spain.” For deputy José Muñoz, this proposal – the first up for debate presented by the PP as a governing party – did nothing more than express the “lack of political project” of the new Executive led by Carlos Mazón.
As La Vanguardia already explained, the strategy of the PP of the Valencian Community is to focus on the amnesty and that this debate (where neither the PSPV nor Compromís feel particularly comfortable) is the one that marks the Valencian agenda these first months of Government of the popular ones with the extreme right, since while the opposition tries to defend itself it does not have time to attack.
