The three parties that make up the Valencian Government have opted for a thorough renewal of the regional lists with which they aspire to maintain, for the third consecutive legislature, a left-wing government in the Valencian Community. PSPV, Compromís and Unides Podem have carried out an important change of faces to try to renew the confidence of the voters. A renewal that is around 60% in the three games.
Different profiles that will vary the composition of the parliamentary groups and that will make the socialists, after overcoming the historic organic struggles, head towards the social democratic commitment that prioritizes Ximo Puig and Compromís bets on accentuating its more Valencian profile after the rebalancing of forces and the loss of Initiative influence within the coalition. Podemos will continue in the same line of party leaning to the left and critical of the system, yes, with new emerging figures that will try to prop up the project of the purples in Valencian lands.
The Socialists approved yesterday in their National Committee the lists with which they aspire to return to lead the Valencian Government. The renewal is evident. If the current group is examined and a projection is made with identical results (27 seats, although everything indicates that more will be achieved), only 10 of the parliamentarians; 37% would repeat.
The main renovation, as already anticipated, is in Alicante, where only Laura Soler (which will be the two) and the mayor of Xàbia, José Chulvi (9) will return to the Chamber. They join the list that will be headed by the Minister Josefina Bueno, the trade unionist Yaissa Sánchez and names such as David Bernardo López or Mario Villar.
In Valencia, where Puig will lead, the four ministers join in this order: Rebeca Torró, Arcadi España, Gabriela Bravo and Miguel Mínguez, as well as the former president of the Youth Council, Cristina Martínez. This forces -plus the signing of the president of the Provincial Council, Toni Gaspar-, to throw back deputies such as Carmen Martínez (8), José Muñoz (9) or Mercedes Caballero (10). The incorporation of the former provincial president, closely linked to José Luis Ábalos, shows the commitment to seek internal consensus.
However, it is pointed out that a better result and the fact that a government can be formed will make the list advance and they can repeat as parliamentarians Rosa Peris (11) or the mayor of Xirivella, Michel Montaner (13), also close to Ábalos. Between the two, at number 12 on the list, the signing of Alicia Andújar, the former leader of UPyD, is striking, a sign of Puig’s clear commitment to advancing that social democratic profile and expanding the social base of his party. fighting for the center voter who orphans Ciudadanos, with the PP.
Finally, in Castellón, the signing to head the list of the current president of the city’s port, Rafael Simó, stands out. María José Salvador, Ana Besalduch and Ernest Blanch repeat on the list and the rest are new additions.
After the resignation of the vice-president and leader of Compromís Mónica Oltra, the return to the private sphere of Fran Ferri (trustee for almost seven years) and the move to local politics by his substitute, Papi Robles, the coalition will bet on renewing almost 60% of the list with which the legislature will end.
Of the 17 deputies who are now in Les Corts, if Compromís repeats the results (it would be a good result for the Valencian formation), only seven parliamentarians (Aitana Mas, Vicent Marzà, Mónica Álvaro, Carles Esteve, Nathalie Torres, Jesús Pla and Ferran Barberà) would continue in Parliament.
The new group led by the candidate for the Valencian Generalitat, Joan Baldoví, will have up to 10 new faces among which stand out María Josep Amigó (number two for Valencia), Gerard Fullana (two for Alicante), or Verónica Ruiz (two for Castellón ). The Minister of Agriculture, Isaura Navarro, returns to Les Corts where she was during the first botanical legislature.
Historical figures such as the still Minister Rafael Climent, the president of Les Corts, Enric Morera, or the leader of Els Verds, Juan Ponce, will not continue in Parliament. Morera had been in the Chamber since 2007 and Ponce since 2011. Of the three, only the president of Les Corts appeared in the primary process.
The entry of young people like MJ Calabuig or Cesc Roig, profiles like Gerard Fullana or Amigó, the total control of Vicent Marzà in Castellón and the greater prominence of Més Compromís in the lists make us think that the coalition, without abandoning that idea of ??social left that channeled Mónica Oltra, will bet on strengthening its Valencianist profile and of a party that, “without leaders in Madrid”, better defends the interests of Valencians.
Although it is more complicated to get numbers from the renewal in the case of Unides Podem, since an agreement has not yet been reached to reissue the coalition nor has the order of the list and the places that will be reserved for the US been agreed, the truth is that the renewal aims to be total.
In the Podem lists, only one deputy repeats. Irene Gómez will have the opportunity to continue one more legislature if the two seats for Castellón that were obtained in 2019 are maintained. The rest did not even appear in the primaries, aware that they had no options to continue. Meanwhile, the current coordinator and trustee of the parliamentary group, Pilar Lima, has a change of scenery with the huge challenge that Podem be back in the Valencia City Council.
Thus, the purples are betting on three new heads of list who are or started the legislature in Madrid: the second vice president of the Consell Héctor Illueca (candidate for the Presidency and number one for Valencia); the General Director of Youth of the Government, María Teresa Pérez (who will head the list for Alicante); and the deputy in Congress Marisa Saavedra (who will lead the ballot for Castellón).
In this context, in the best of cases, with a good result and with an agreement that would put the EU candidates Rosa Pérez and Estefanía Blanes in starting positions, only three of the current 8 Unides Podem deputies would have options to repeat . A renewal percentage of 62.5%, even higher than that of Compromís.
Despite this, it does not seem that the ideological line of the party is going to vary too much since the renewed profile of Illueca, with his constant attacks on businessmen, is shared by those people that he himself has chosen to accompany him and who aspire to make parliament a ideological trench far from the positions of previous spokespersons such as Antonio Estañ or Rubén Martínez Dalmau.
