More PSPV or more PSOE? More Girondist or more Jacobin? The dialectic has existed since its foundation in 1978 (merger of the PSOE and PSPV); and he only swung towards more “Valencianist” positions, with a federal soul, with Joan Romero (which cost him the general secretary) and, more recently, with Ximo Puig. Looking at the PSOE or looking at the PSC, that has been a dilemma in which verticality, centrality, has almost always prevailed, with Ferraz tutoring the key moments. It is happening now with more notoriety due to the party model that Pedro Sánchez has imposed, more presidential, little given to granting autonomy to peripheral structures and determined to hand over the initiative to nationalist or independence forces. Galicia is the example, with its consequences.
Diana Morant is the new leader of the PSPV, and will shortly be ratified as general secretary at the extraordinary congress at the end of March. The minister must oppose the executive of the PP and Vox, which Mazón governs, and for the moment she has done so by highlighting the policies of the Spanish Government, and its president. It has not yet defined the federation model it wants, the identity to underline after a broad past marked by Ximo Puig (federalist, anti-centralist, with his “Valencian way” and his defense of the “Spain of Spains”), and the relationship you want to have with the PSOE. Since there is no political presentation in the congress, she will have to be the one to define the values of a project that has begun a journey through the desert. The definition of what the PSPV will be in the coming years will depend, in part, on whether the trip is short or long (the other time it was 20 years).
The PSPV is not the PSdeG. It has always been the majority force of the Valencian left, with periods of absolute hegemony and others of tough competition with other options: it happened in 2015, with a strong Compromís by Mónica Oltra and with Podemos in full effervescence. The PSPV, in addition, obtained better results last March 28 than in 2019 and 2015, although it lost the Generalitat Valenciana. But the new Valencian cycle, in which the PP aspires to be hegemonic again, pushing Vox to the margins, forces the socialists, and their new leader, to take positions on what party model is desired to try to have options in 2027 And, at the same time, what story will permeate his administration: more Jacobin? more Girondino? More docile to Ferraz's wishes?
The party model imposed by Sánchez is not a model of success in the peripheries in regional struggles (Madrid, Andalusia, etc.). The PSC is a separate case, the PSC, let us not forget, is not PSOE. Diana Morant embraces the policies of the Government to which she belongs, logical, but perhaps that story is not enough and even insufficient to promote her federation. Take note of the Galician case. The dilemma between the two souls of the PSPV will continue to be present and, sooner or later, Diana Morant will have to define herself.
