Diana Morant will design an executive to govern the PSPV in which the power of the territorial barons will be respected. This was confirmed yesterday by sources close to the minister, who pointed out that tomorrow Wednesday the names of this body will begin to be negotiated with the provincial secretaries of Alicante and Valencia, Alejando Soler and Carlos Fernández Bielsa, and that the list will be voted on Saturday in the extraordinary congress of the federation to be held in Benicàssim.
However, these sources emphasize that the people who make it up must have “their trust” and that the key positions, such as the Organization Secretary or the Municipal Policy Secretary, will be “Diana Morant's people.” “The hard core must be a team that understands the way the minister wants to direct the PSPV,” these sources add.
The big doubt continues to revolve around the figure of the Organization Secretary. In the party there is speculation about the possibility that this area falls to the figure of the current Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, who is currently already deputy general secretary of the party, a position that competes with that of Organization for the role of number two of the match.
On this occasion, as agreed between Morant, Bielsa and Soler, the deputy secretary will be in the hands of the mayor of Mislata while the Alicante deputy will be the president of the party. It does not seem that Bernabé - a rising value in the PSPV and who also works in the Valencian Community - is not going to have a leading role in a formation that needs new leadership. Another thing is that it is possible, to the always complicated position of Government delegate, to add a responsibility as an Organization.
The new Valencian socialist leader wants to close the key chapters of the congress before Friday. That is to say, Morant does not want negotiations to take place, as on other occasions, until the early hours of Sunday morning with the obvious tension that this entails. “Everything will be closed on Saturday afternoon,” they point out.
Regarding the size of the new executive, these sources emphasize that everything will depend on the negotiation of the general secretary with the territorial barons of the PSPV in the Valencian Community. And it is not ruled out that it could be a large body to satisfy all the political families of Valencian socialism, as already happened in the first era of Ximo Puig.
The goal, they insist, is for everything to be closed in time for Pedro Sánchez to close a “successful” PSPV congress on Sunday. An appointment in which there will not be a typical political presentation, since being an extraordinary congress “it is not necessary.” Of course, the same sources indicate that there will be some modifications with respect to the current document.”
The keys to the new political orientation of Valencian socialism will be verbalized by Diana Morant in her speech after being officially proclaimed general secretary by the delegates present. One fact: Ximo Puig will speak on Saturday morning at the congress, a day on which the presence of the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, a key leader for the main Valencian demands, is also expected.
Given this decision to respect territorial balances, the ranks of those who were Morant's rivals still do not fully understand that a week before Congress they have not yet received a call from the minister. “There is nothing new”, “there has not been any contact or any gesture”, they explain to La Vanguardia from those around Alejandro Soler and Carlos Fernández Bielsa.
However, both maintain “confidence” that the new general secretary of the PSPV will call them to present “a project of cohesion and integration.” This, at least, is the agreement reached with the mediation of the federal leadership to avoid a confrontation in the form of primaries.
The truth is that these days it was expected that in the middle of the Fallas celebration the congressional fuse would be lit, but the minister has not been able to attend to the scheduled agenda in the Valencian Community due to a personal issue. It is expected, however, that he will be in Valencia this Tuesday on the big day of his festivities.
