There are many observers who assess that the European elections next June could be the most important since the constitution of the European Parliament in 1952. In a European key, due to the possibility that the right and the extreme right will reach a sufficient majority to break the historical balance between conservatives, social democrats and liberals who have governed the EU institutions. In a national key, because it will be a test to test the strength of the Spanish parties, especially the PP and the PSOE: the first wants a resounding victory against the socialists after 23-J, while Pedro Sánchez wants to confirm that his party continues to win. electoral muscle.
Although these are single constituency elections in each of the States, there will also be a “Valencian reading” depending on the results obtained in each of the autonomies. In the 2019 European elections, the PSOE obtained 762,208 votes in this autonomy compared to the PP's 522,998 votes. On that occasion Podemos-EUPV achieved 223,988 votes and Vox 167,222 votes. But the political scene in Spain has changed a lot since that call. Last 23-J, the PSOE obtained 922,000 votes in the Valencian Community, compared to 849,000 for the socialists; and on March 28, the Valencian PP achieved 863,106 compared to the 691,861 of the PSPV and 349,142 of Compromís.
Inevitably there will be a regional reading and the references will refer to the strength of the Valencian PP, PSPV, Compromís and Vox formations, all parties with representation in the Corts Valencianes. Especially between Carlos Mazón and Diana Morant; the first to confirm the muscle of a party that now governs the Valencian Community with Vox and, in the case of the minister, to find out if the PSPV is showing off its chest at a time when it has begun its journey through the desert.
There are several Valencians who are going to be the face of each of the formations in confrontation. In the case of the PP, Esteban González Pons returns to Europe after a period in which he was part of Alberto Núñez Feijóo's hard core in Génova. The former Valencian councilor was elected MEP for the PP in 2014 (he was number 2 on the list) and named vice president of the EPP Group and deputy spokesperson of the PP delegation in the European Parliament. He maintained his activity until 2022, when he was appointed Deputy Secretary General of Institutional and International Policy of the PP. He is one of the Spanish candidates with the most experience in European parliamentary dynamics.
Leire Pajín, former minister and former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, has been recovered to occupy a prominent place in the socialist candidacy and will go at number 8 on the socialist list. She has been a personal bet of José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero. She will be accompanied on the list by the PSPV spokesperson in the city of Valencia, Sandra Gómez, who replaces Inmaculada Rodríguez Piñero, who has carried out intense work as an MEP during two European legislatures. Piñero has been a deputy who has stood out for her defense of Valencian interests and maintains a close friendship with González Pons (in Brussels certain national polarizations are softened in the corridors of the European Parliament).
The incorporation of Vicent Marzà, former Minister of Education of the Generalitat Valenciana and strong man of Compromís, has been the commitment of the Valencians to try to obtain a seat from the list presented by Sumar. He occupies third place, which gives him possibilities in a confrontation where there is a risk that polarization will end up concentrating a large part of the vote in the PP and the PSOE. Getting Marzà to occupy that place generated a tough struggle between Compromís and the leadership of Yolanda Díaz's party that came close to causing a fracture.
