Next Saturday, the PSPV national committee must approve the composition of the candidates for the 28M elections. So, a week ahead, and given the staggering inadequacy of the party apparatus and Palau’s plumbing (i.e., Jose Muñoz or Alfred Boix) the rulers of the second and third cities of the community have not yet met to formulate their proposals, in order to prevent the dwarves from multiplying from one corner to another; In Torrevieja, the candidate sighed; In Benidorm, winning a town hall is more than just a list, apparently they call it a birthday… And so on.
It is not true that there was no meeting. It happened in Alicante and it happened in Valencia, where the former senator went. angel franco Days before the last meeting. It is not any understanding. Franco is not giving up on his demand to check the list in which Alicante would be the leader in his case Main Barcelona and by placing in it not the best of himself (there are some good ones), but the most loyal. And other socialist “families” in the same effort have historically been so inept at defining a political project that they are always willing to come to terms with who they would later call their main enemy to create a union of quotas and vetoes. Surprisingly, in Valencia, they are surprised as if we haven’t watched the same movie over and over again decades later.
The issue with the socialists in Alicante is not a question of internal democracy. Last weekend’s parliament, where Francoists and idiosyncratic sanchistas played with marked lists, was anything but democratic, but embarrassing for any observer of the process. Nor is it the fruit of any revolt against Valencia’s impositions: if they give them what they want, they will accept anything. Containing logically paid posts and favors, it’s just a struggle for inner strength and destiny expectations for you today, for me tomorrow. The great drama of the PSOE in Alicante is that they can’t imagine it without Franco. But they always suffocate with it.
Last weekend’s parliament, where Francoists and idiosyncratic sanchistas played with marked lists, was anything but democratic, but embarrassing for any observer of the process.
ximo puig He made a risky decision when his party leader chose Ana Barceló as his candidate for Mayor of Alicante. And not because Barceló wasn’t born here (as I recall on another occasion, four of Alicante’s seven mayors in a democracy, and more than half of the voters called to the polls next May were not originally from the city), but that he didn’t know enough about the municipality he aspires to run. because he couldn’t claim it, and also served as mayor of another town that wasn’t even in the Alicante enclave. If, despite this great inconvenience, the head of the Generalitat has taken a risk with his ordeal (in addition to the fact that at the time Ana Barceló appeared invaluable in polls after the Ministry of Health had managed the pandemic) because only someone outside the local group could break the blockade, that person had proven himself in the party. He was convinced that he should have the record, not repeat the mistake of placing an “independent” “independent”. it had to be someone who had a weight in the internal dynamics of political organizations and finally in the socialist structure. Barceló, who was previously mayor of Sax and later Minister of Health, as well as spokesperson for the socialist parliamentary group in Corts, was the first provincial secretary the PSOE had after the charter reform and is the current president of the PSPV.
All of these gave the same thing. The gerontocracy that holds Alicante’s Socialist Party hostage is governed by unshakable principles: first, the classic “give me a name I oppose”; secondly, no less blessed is the very broad notion of ‘my job’ that includes family, friends and neighbors, ‘or mine’; third, the worse the party is in the elections, the better it will perform in the assemblies, because if the party comes to power, those who hold the strings but never lead the candidacy will fall from power; and fourth, and for sure, the less stereotypical “won’t pass”: they want Alicante’s socialist group just as Franco wanted (the other) to isolate Spain.
The 2019 regional elections resulted in a balance in favor of the parties making up Botànic (PSPV-PSOE, Compromís and Unidas Podemos) with just over 40,000 votes against the right-wing bloc comprising PP, Ciudadanos and Vox. Only 40,398 votes benefit from the census of 3.6 million voters. This narrow victory, however, came as the left in the Valencia and Castellón constituencies was able to offset the result in Alicante, where the Socialists were the first party, while the right-wing bloc added 42,538 more votes than the left.
It does not seem like the right strategy for the capital, which has captured everything in terms of image and determined the general expectation of the party, to establish a circus three months before the elections.
As much as Ximo Puig has tried, it seems less and less likely that the sign between the two blocks in Alicante will be reversed. But catching something in the sinking of Ciudadanos and not taking it all masonor at least that this disparity does not increase rapidly has been Puig’s goal throughout the legislature. And it doesn’t seem best for them to set up circuses three months before the elections in the main municipalities, but especially in the capital, which has taken over everything in terms of image and set the general expectations of the party. strategy.
Since two thousand years ago, the Greeks told us about the Gordian knot, which hindered further progress. Just as all the general secretaries of the PSPV-PSOE from beginning to end were involved in what binds their parties in Alicante, not all of them succeeded in undoing it. The key, as the Greeks taught us after Alexander passed through, is not to try to untie it, but to cut it in one hit. In the case of Alicante, the only way out the Socialists have is for Ana Barceló to risk it by not accepting compromises, vetoes or quotas; make your own list, including those you think are the most talented, regardless of the family they belong to; and if they vote against here, keep the guy. And Puig is imposing his mandate by getting it approved by the national committee next weekend. Make Franco a Greek to understand each other.
Battle of the Courts
JRG
As previously reported here, the sleight of hand in the Alicante socialist group came to the point last weekend not to offer to be part of the regional nomination to the Minister of Innovation, Josefina Bueno, a member of that group. Nor was it an exercise in internal democracy in this case, but rather an explicit order to send the message of how far they were willing to go if they did not yield to demands for names on the local list. A gesture that only lasted a few hours because the local secretary corrected it immediately and sent a “support” message to all members to the minister.
Josefina Bueno will top the list of Valencia Courts for Alicante, no one doubts that. And on this occasion, this is no small responsibility, considering that Carlos Mazón, the candidate to head the Generalitat for the PP, will also be at the head of the Alicante vote. But the key will be what will happen in the following positions on this list, and that’s where the struggle takes place and where the second most important group in the state is Elche, controlled by former mayor and county secretary Alejandro Soler. wants to struggle to place a “relevant” representation in their starting positions. For this reason, local execution, which had to formulate proposals in Elche as well as in Alicante, albeit for different reasons, was postponed.
PSPV received more than 25% of the vote in this constituency in the 2019 regional elections and 10 of the 35 seats in question. PP reached seven, but as everything shows, if the popular ones take over most of the spoils left by the Ciudadanos, who also got seven four years ago, then this Socialist leading score is hard to maintain in this situation. seat and now according to all polls there is no chance of winning.
With honorable exceptions (with the exception of the most eminent Laura Soler), we haven’t heard much about these ten district lawmakers in this legislature. If you do any search in the newspaper archives, you will find a wasteland. And the reasoning that it’s gray when you’re a representative of a party that runs your business isn’t worth it, because (as the aforementioned Laura Soler example illustrates), there’s a lot to kick out in the constituency in which a parliamentarian is elected. really wants to work.
So it would be logical to think that there has been a radical renewal of the socialist candidacy currently presented. And there may even be a name of social importance to support it. We’ll see if PSPV can do it that way, by looking outward, or just one thing to handle.