The Valencian PP is not at all optimistic and fears that with the arrival of Minister Diana Morant to the General Secretariat of the PSPV, possible agreements between the two major parties will be even more complicated to reach. The popular ones consider that the "Sanchista" and "radical" profile of the Gandiense will complicate any rapprochement between PP and PSPV, for example, for the renewal of statutory bodies.
Changes in up to six organizations and institutions have been blocked for more than a year: the Consell Jurídic Consultiu, the Consell Valencià de Cultura, the Consell de Transparència, the Consell Rector of television, the Consell de Universities and the Sindicatura de Comptes. Its renewal was about to be closed at the end of the Botànic term, but finally the PP departed from the consensus and pushed Ciudadanos towards its interests. Now, PSPV and Compromís are the ones who are in no hurry to make the new appointments.
The PP has tried on several occasions to negotiate the unblocking but the left has already made it clear that in any arithmetic involving "the extreme right" of Vox (partners of the popular in Parliament and in the regional executive) they will not participate.
The arrival of Morant to the leadership of the PSPV, they fear at the PPCV headquarters, will further castle the situation. They consider that the minister will use the same roadmap as her main reference -Pedro Sánchez- and "will avoid any rapprochement with the PP."
The change in the socialist leadership also has other readings. Now, the popular ones manage to unify the political rival. If already in the previous regional campaign the enemy to beat was more Pedro Sánchez than Ximo Puig, the fact that Morant is part of the Council of Minister allows the PP to direct all its artillery against the central Executive. At the appointment on May 28 he did well; In general, not so much.
In some way, the Government's decisions regarding the Valencian Community in terms of financing, water, investments or budgets are now directly attributable to the PSPV since its future leader is part of Pedro Sánchez's Executive.
Since the beginning of the legislature, the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has been very vindictive towards the Government and has not hesitated to give his opinion and put any national issue on the Valencian agenda that would serve to wear down the PSOE and its leader. Now he would have more arguments to delve into his strategy.
Just yesterday, PPCV - which has already rejected bonuses for companies to return to Catalonia - expressed its rejection of the reform of the Penal Code to decriminalize insults to the Crown and the glorification of terrorism and presented a Non-Law Proposition in Les Corts Valencianes together with Vox to demand that the Sánchez Government “guarantee respect for State institutions and victims of terrorism.”
However, asked in the Presidency if Morant's election was going to change their strategy, Palau sources assured this newspaper that "they will continue working the same and demanding from the government what corresponds to the Valencian Community as it has been doing until now." "Nothing changes for us," they concluded.
