The PSPV (and therefore its general secretary, Ximo Puig) has managed to place two people of its utmost confidence in the second step of the Government. The former Minister of Finance - and previously his Chief of Staff, Arcadi Spain - will be the Secretary of State for Territorial Policy; while Rbeca Torró, current trustee of the socialist parliamentary group in Les Corts, will be the Secretary of State for Industry. Two appointments with which Puig regains power of influence in the central Executive. Of course, at the cost of undressing his parliamentary group, which will have to reinvent itself.
And it will not be easy, since the electoral list designed by Ximo Puig was designed to govern more than to form an opposition with many new faces and little parliamentary experience. Be that as it may, the truth is that the PSPV loses its parliamentary spokesperson and one of its deputies and will have to look for replacements of guarantees in a group without many prominent names.
Party sources explain to La Vanguardia the idea of taking advantage of the forced change to look for a tough profile, "an Óscar Puente profile" - the former mayor of Valladolid and now Minister of Transport who dazzled his people by replying to Nuñez Feijóo in the debate of investiture. A forceful voice is considered necessary to oppose the PP and Vox Government and reply to President Carlos Mazón who, until now, has emerged successfully from the control sessions in the regional Parliament.
All eyes are on the party's current Secretary of Organization, José Muñoz, whom they consider a deputy "with experience and skills to face the opposition's work." However, until the party executive meets, no name and final design of the group will be made official. In addition to Muñoz, everything indicates that deputy Rosa Peris, another of the parliamentarians with experience in a group where there are many newcomers, will be part of the new leadership as deputy spokesperson.
However, all these changes will have a certain veneer of provisionality because, as a socialist deputy recalls, the new leadership will be in place until the PSPV congress scheduled for next year and, depending on its result, those now elected will be maintained or renewed. new. A circumstance that - together with the uncertainty about Ximo Puig's future in Les Corts - does not help the stability of the group or its opposition work.
