After a heart-stopping recount -with an appeal included for the recount of votes in two small towns (Beniatjar and Bufali)-, the PSPV could retain, despite the advance of the right, the Valencia Provincial Council. It would be the largest institution that the Socialists would have in their possession after losing the Generalitat, the Alicante Provincial Council and such important municipalities as Valencia, Alicante, Castellón, Elx and Torrent on the night of 28-M.
Paradoxes of life, who will decide the balance will be the Ens Uneix party led by the current mayor of Ontinyent and former leader of the PSPV, Jorge RodrÃguez. In fact, the first mayor, who maintained an absolute majority in his City Council yesterday, was president of the Valencia Provincial Council until he was removed by his party after being arrested for alleged irregular hiring in the so-called AlquerÃa case.
The distribution of provincial deputies that the official results website rectified last night leaves the PP with 13 deputies and Vox with 2. Those 15 would be insufficient if the provincial deputy of Ens Uneix is ​​added to the 12 from the PSPV and the 3 from CompromÃs. A deputy who on Monday morning joined RodrÃguez’s party, on Monday morning was from the PP and last night returned to give the majority to the left.
Although RodrÃguez’s entourage assures La Vanguardia that it is early to make a decision and they anticipate a tough negotiation, it is no less true that they admit that they are a progressive force and remember that it is the PP that has prosecuted his administration. In addition, they recognize their good relationship with the mayor of Mislata, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, who is the provincial president of the PSPV and a virtual candidate (especially after repeating an absolute majority) for the Provincial Council. A good relationship that, by the way, they do not have with Ximo Puig.
The position of president of the Provincial Council in a context of control by the PP of all the institutions is extremely important because, as Carlos Mazón has shown, in Alicante, it is a good setting to project oneself politically. And it escapes no one that, in the current socialist scenario, Bielsa -who joins his good results with that of a group of mayors who are faithful to him such as Paterna or Cullera- is one of the men called to have a greater role in the PSPV, where surely the succession of Puig generates a return to the organic battle.
