On some occasion, when asked about her former party and city council partner, the now PSPV trustee in Les Corts, Rebeca Torró, threw balls out. Yesterday it was not like that. In fact, the spokesperson for the socialist parliamentary group fired a bullet and compared the mayor of Ontinyent, Jorge Rodríguez, with former minister Rafael Blasco, convicted of the Cooperation case that landed him in jail.
In an interview in Les Notícies del Matí de À Punt, Torró was critical of the visit of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, to Ontinyent, where he sealed (in case there was any doubt) his good political harmony with Rodríguez after the agreement to form part of the Government of the Provincial Council of Valencia. For the socialist spokeswoman, the PP has shown no scruples in its objective of reaching power and took the opportunity to draw a double comparison with all the intention: "In the time of Zaplana the PP bought a man from Alzira called Rafael Blasco and now Mazón has bought a man from Ontinyent named Jorge Rodríguez".
Asked if that purchase had any appearance of illegality, Torró limited himself to saying that, as in the case of Blasco, "time will tell." It must be remembered that the former minister, who at first was a member of the PSPV, was accused -already in his time as minister with Francisco Camps- of diverting money from cooperation and has served a prison sentence.
The PSPV tries to create that parallelism since, in his day, Blasco and his family created a local party in Alzira that caused many problems in the capital of La Ribera for the PSPV; Something similar to what has happened to the Socialists after the irruption of Jorge Rodríguez's party, which has won an absolute majority in Ontinyent in the last two elections, minimizing the presence of the Socialists in this important municipality of La Vall d' Albaida.
The PSPV fears that La Vall Ens Uneix could consolidate itself as a political project with the aid and investments of both the Valencia Provincial Council and the Valencian Generalitat and is trying to short-circuit this hypothetical growth with statements like the ones Rebeca Torró made yesterday on the Valencian public radio and television . However, yesterday the trustee in Les Corts Valencianes warned that after agreeing with PP and Vox in the Valencia Provincial Council, Rodríguez's party "can die in Ontinyent"
