The acting Valencian president and leader of the PSPV, Ximo Puig, is seriously considering the possibility of being a territorial senator after the general elections of 23-J. A decision that has not yet been made, but that he understands would help him defend his federal vision of Spain in the Upper House. Since the Presidency of the Generalitat, Puig has always fought for what he has defended as “the Spain of Spains”, a discourse that not all of his party shares.
Puig’s approach would go through maintaining his act of regional deputy and being appointed territorial senator for Les Corts Valencianes. Information that La Razón has advanced today and that this newspaper has been able to confirm with sources in its environment.
With this movement, the Valencian leader would maintain a speaker in Madrid – these eight years of Government at the head of the Generalitat had become one of the territorial references of the PSOE -, without leaving the Valencian Community. A situation that would allow him, as he already said after losing the elections, to continue leading the opposition in the Valencian Community.
It was taken for granted that Puig had no intention of becoming the group’s spokesperson in the regional Parliament, although it was not ruled out that he could intervene in important debates. The option of the Senate, whose decision is not yet final (it will be taken after the general elections), would help him to be in Valencia and Madrid and maintain that balance that he intends to assume in this new stage that is opening in Valencian socialism (and also maybe in the PSOE if the polls are correct).
And it is that the movements in the party have not stopped following the results of the regional and municipal elections, where the Socialists increased in votes and seats but lost the Generalitat and most of the important municipalities of the Valencian Community.
