"I have no will to be anything." With this ruling, the former Minister of Education and Culture, Vicent Marzà, was presented yesterday as a common deputy, at least for the time being. Just a week after announcing his resignation from office, Marzà insisted that his role will become "to give support and strengthen the political project" from the street, the social movements and the Corts party.
Despite this, everything indicates that the president of Més Compromís will have a key role in the future of both his organization and that of the coalition, beyond the fact that he may be an alternative to Mónica Oltra.
It is true that Marzà's decision to leave Ximo Puig's Consell took his party off guard and that his fit is still not clear. He, and yesterday he said it publicly, will not lead any of the competitions that he directed from the Campanar department (Education, Culture and Sports) at Les Corts because he does not want to give the impression that he is watching his successor from the distance.
What did not rule out the one who was number one in Compromís for Castelló is that he could end up being deputy spokesman. A decision that he, he admitted, has not yet been debated in the group; It will be done after next week's plenary session. The entry of Marzà would mean the departure of the group leadership of Mònica Álvaro (number two on the list for Castellón), a deputy critical of the current party leadership, but who has demonstrated her ability to work in the Valencian Parliament .
Apart from his task in Parliament, the party believes that Marzà should play a key role in negotiating and clarifying the turbulent space shared by a number of parties to the left of the PSPV.
Already in his political presentation for Més Compromís, which was comfortably approved a year ago, the former Minister -author of the text- spoke of defining the new political space of his party and of "cooperating strategically and on an equal footing with other sister forces" and thus "weave alliances, little by little and increasingly firm, to confront centralism and the outdated state model". Now, they explain from Més, it is time to execute that roadmap.
A complicated task since, as they recognize in Compromís, the atmosphere is getting rarer on the political board of the left and more after the absurdity of Andalusia. "Podemos's lifeline is the broad front and they only sabotage it," a member of the Més executive commented these days.
And it is that the confrontation between Podemos and Vice President Yolanda Díaz, in addition to the evident distancing between the purples and Esquerra Unida does not generate too much enthusiasm in Compromís who are beginning to think that a hypothetical pact could end up harming them. "We have a consolidated brand," they point out.
In this convoluted context -we must add the More Country variable- Marzà will have to move with the help, yes, of other Més assets such as Amadeu Mezquida or the general coordinator herself, Àgueda Micó.
However, this will not be the only task for Marzà, who, as coordinator of Més Compromís, could also be entrusted with the task of configuring municipal lists and seeking alliances with other left-wing forces ahead of the 2023 elections. In the coalition they know that it has to take advantage of its implantation in many municipalities to drag votes to the autonomous candidacy.
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