The agreement reached between Podem and Esquerra Unida, after months of discreet but complicated negotiation, has had a soothing effect on the Valencian left in order to support the options of repeating the left-wing government in the Valencian Community. Although the pact does not ensure anything (it will be necessary to see if the coalition finally exceeds the electoral bar of 5% to be in Les Corts), the truth is that a non-agreement condemned the votes of these formations not to be translated into seats, which It made the continuity of the Botànic very difficult.
Without one of the three legs of the current Executive, everything would be at the expense of a great growth of the PSPV and a result of Compromís, now without the presence of Mónica Oltra, close to the 17% of the votes that it obtained in 2019. And with the PP growing and swallowing what remains of Ciudadanos. There are already several polls that give the winning PP with the plus that this implies in terms of the distribution of seats.
Some electoral perspectives that, judging by the poll that the candidate Illueca outlined yesterday, augurs a good electoral result for the purple and red coalition without fear of bordering on the nightmare of 5%. The leader of Podem did not want to specify figures beyond giving the name of the company that has carried out the poll (the prestigious 40db) and declaring that it not only gives them "a solid basis to repeat the result" of the previous elections (8 deputies). , but that they are "in a position to aspire to have more strength in the Valencian government". The continuity of the Botànic does not cast any doubt, according to Illueca.
Thus, after the agreement between the two formations, the Valencian left breathes a sigh of relief. The pact will allow the purples to have the candidate for the Presidency of the Generalitat - the current second vice president of the Consell, Héctor Illueca - and the heads of the list of Alicante and Castellón. While the EU, it remains with the numbers two in Valencia and Alicante. The name of the coalition, which was also the subject of negotiation, will be Unides Podem-Esquerra Unida.
On this occasion, the regional elections will not coincide with the general ones -which in 2019 gave them extra support- but with the municipal ones. For this reason, the obsession of both forces to transfer, as far as possible, their agreement to large cities such as Valencia, Alicante, Elx or Castelló. Nearly 50 agreements that hope that the lack of local candidates -PSPV and Compromís have mayors with pull- does not harm them. Thus, US sources assure La Vanguardia that "the objective is to double the confluences with the purple ones that were closed in 2019."
It is striking that in some of these municipal agreements there will be Compromís (there are 15 local agreements with the nationalists), which at the end of last year already settled the possibility of joining the rest of the parties to the left of the PSPV for the autonomous . This last circumstance was highly criticized yesterday, during the presentation of the agreement, both Podem and the EU.
Illueca, who in his last appearances has been characterized by stoking Compromís, was convinced that with "Mónica Oltra an agreement would have been possible." A phrase that, together with the fact that those who now govern this party are more conservative, serve the vice president to incite his top political rivals.
In yesterday's act, the participants also highlighted the alleged inconsistency of the Valencian supporters of wanting to support unity around Yolanda Díaz and denying her in the Valencian Community. "It seems to me that it is clearly opportunistic to add there and divide here," said the candidate for the Generalitat. The truth is that Compromís' calculations work out better if they go to the regional authorities separately.
At this juncture the question was forced. What will Yolanda Díaz do in the 28M campaign? Compromís has said that she would love for her to participate in one of her campaign events and the second vice president of the Government has openly shown her sympathy for the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó. However, the EU coordinator, Rosa Pérez Garijo, who was also at Magariños on Saturday, after recalling that Díaz was vice president thanks to Unidas Podem, was forceful: "It would not be understood in any way that he campaigned for a formation that did not be yours."
