The mourning that the city of Valencia is experiencing after suffering the worst fire in its history forced this Saturday to suspend the assembly where Initiative – the party promoted by Mónica Oltra and which is a minority partner in Compromís – had planned to establish its roadmap and its preferences in alliance policy. However, the training showed the results of the telematic consultation carried out with the entire militancy – which was already underway before the brutal fire – and demonstrated its desire to attend the European elections in “a plural and broad candidacy with Sumar and others eco-socialist parties” to achieve “recover the Valencian voice in Europe.”
The direction of the militancy’s vote is not surprising, since this formation has always shown its willingness to support Yolanda Díaz’s project. All in all, what is hidden behind the results is striking. Although there were 80.32% of the votes in favor of the proposal, 16.06% against and 3.06% abstention, it should be noted that the question did not mobilize the low militancy of the party.
Of a census of 882 people, only 249 participated (28.23%). There were 200 votes in favor and 40 against. As the former senator of the party Carles Mulet wrote in In percentage terms, the support was overwhelming; in absolute numbers, not very stimulating.
Now it remains to be seen what Els Verds (an even more symbolic party in the coalition) and, above all, Més Compromís want to do, which seems to be opting to reissue the agreement with Yolanda Díaz and other peripheral formations of the general elections to try to have a presence in the European Parliament . They believe that it is the only way out if they want to repeat the success of 2014 when they achieved their first and only MEP by achieving 300,000 votes throughout Spain (140,000 in the Valencian Community) with a coalition led by Compromís together with Equo and the CHA.
To have that seat in Brussels, the Valencian coalition is aware that they will have to demand Díaz a place as high as possible in the candidacy since Sumar is not expected to have great results on June 9.
Although the Més Compromís leadership insists that Sumar is the “logical and natural ally”, the critics of Bloc i País oppose this agreement and are gaining followers, especially after the coalition deputies in Congress have lost influence and the Galician elections have demonstrated Sumar’s territorial weakness.
