It's official. The State Citizen Council of Podemos has set from October 10 to November 4 the dates of the next primaries in which the candidates for the municipal and regional elections of 2023 will be elected. Some votes, they explained through a statement, "that They will be as always open to registered and registered by telematic vote ".
With the calendar clear, it remains to be seen when the second vice president of the Government, Héctor Illueca, takes the step to present himself as a candidate for the Presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana. A bet that, yes, would not be at odds with possible subsequent alliances with other actors in the political space.
The highest institutional representative of Podem, who we remember left Madrid after the abrupt departure of Rubén Martínez Dalmau, has begun the political course marking distances with his government partners and raising the tone on account of a PSPV survey that generated a lot of controversy for leaving out from the Valencian parliament to the purple formation.
Although there can always be some kind of surprises and in the end those who decide are the registered ones, it seems that the decision has been made and will be announced in the coming days when the dates indicated by the state management approach.
Also, the autonomous coordinator of Podem, Pilar Lima presented yesterday the Valencian agenda that they hope will be taken into account in the negotiation of the General State Budgets. In it, she highlights as a main point the need to reform the regional financing system that expired 8 years ago.
Lima warned that its formation will be "vigilant" so that in the next budgets there is a correct distribution of territorialized investment "which last year flagrantly harmed Alicante, where it returned to the trend of the PP era with less than 100 euros per inhabitant.
In this way, the Valencian purples claim "fair investments for the Valencian Community and especially a notable improvement for the province of Alicante".
All the parties coincide in pointing out that the province of Alicante can be key in the electoral future. It was in this province where Podem achieved a better percentage of votes in the last regional elections. In Alicante it achieved 9.3% of the ballots, compared to 7.5% achieved in Valencia or 7.85% in Castellón. Although they are not communicating vessels, this better result is explained, in part, because it is in the southernmost province where its main electoral competitor (Compromís) has a worse time.
