The outgoing president of the Valencia Provincial Council, the socialist Toni Gaspar, sent yesterday the official invitation for the plenary session that will be held this Friday to elect the new president of an institution that the PSPV and Compromís are eager to preserve. However, a few hours after the meeting, the outcome is unknown, given that the Socialists have not yet managed to close an agreement with Ens Uneix, Jorge Rodríguez's party, which has already announced that, if there is no agreement, his deputy provincial, Natàlia Enguix, will vote for herself.
If this scenario occurs, the PP, which is the party with the most deputies, would recover the Valencia Provincial Council that it lost in 2015 and would expand its institutional hegemony in the Valencian Community: Generalitat Valenciana, the three councils and the three provincial capitals. In fact, the popular ones are also holding talks with Jorge Rodríguez to try to tie the presidency of an institution in which Vox could also be part of his government.
Ximo Puig affirmed yesterday that the socialist candidate to preside over the corporation, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, has the "unanimous and clear" support of the PSPV to successfully complete his "approach strategy" to these two parties. In an interview published yesterday in this newspaper, Jorge Rodríguez affirmed that the Socialists do not want Bielsa to reach the leadership of this institution.
The still Valencian president once again defended that his party should lead the government of the Valencia Provincial Council and do it "of course, with the utmost agreement and generosity" towards other formations such as Compromís or Ens Uneix. And he assured that the negotiations continue with the "maximum normality", although he stressed that "what is reasonable" is for the Provincial Council government to reflect that the PSPV "very clearly" was the force with the most votes in the 28-M elections in the left flank. "That is what must happen," he insisted, since he believes that the opposite is going against democratic logic.
In this line, he warned that "no one can be forced to, in any way, undo the context of a democracy", alluding to the request of Ens Uneix that both PSPV and Compromís vote for their candidate.
