How do you see Compromís on the night of May 28?
It’s going to be a very tense night, it’s true, because we know things are very balanced, but with the baggage of these four years where all the unforeseen events have occurred, with the emergencies and emergencies that may happen, the citizens will respond and we have to think about how to set up and negotiate the next one in Botànic that night. will need.
But the polls are very conclusive and suggest that the third Botànic will depend on whether the Unides Podem reaches 5%. Are you worried?
The trend has already been consolidated in the latest research, where Unides Podem has managed to exceed this 5% without a hitch. Therefore, the uncertainty is no longer whether the third Botànic will be established, but how much weight each of the parties within that Botànic will have, and that is not unimportant. I want these particular weights to be restructured within Botànic and for Compromís to have a greater weight to have even more power when it comes to negotiations and debates within the Botànic coalition.
What does this greater weight mean for Compromís? Should it be quantitative or qualitative?
First of all, depending on the number of MPs and MPs, you will have more or less specific weight within the Government, but also in terms of intangible things that are the strength that allows you to be supported and exceeded expectations during the negotiation. in an election race. Seen from this perspective, in a coalition government where there are always moments of contention to be agreed upon, the peace of mind that comes from having more support from the public gives you more strength to succeed. Communicate with other partners.
However, this 5% is very narrow and there are margins of error in the surveys…
Yes, but in any of what we’ve seen in recent weeks, it’s clear that this 5% has consolidated, plus surveys are trending. For example, at Compromís, historically, surveys have always given us a lower result than we get. Therefore, with or without a margin of error, in this case it has always been in Compromís’ favour, and the same has happened to Unides Podem in previous years. In any case, the important thing is not to measure a survey, but rather that citizens appreciate what Botànic’s three political forces have done and, if possible, appreciate Compromís’ role even more in these four years. State.
What will determine success or failure for Compromís at 28M?
Overall the success is to have a third Botànic and frankly an even greater success is to blow Compromís into what we’ve already accomplished in 2019 and maybe even closer to the results of 2015 than in 2019, but for the simple reason: stable We have become a government, a government that, due to the role of Compromís, has implemented decisive policies also in critical moments such as DANA, pandemic, inflation, and we have done it this way: demanded by the people, moderation and consensus. I was obsessed that Botany was not three governments, but only one, and this happened in both the first and the second.
But the messages of the three political forces are very different right now, especially from Unides Podem…
I won’t go into assessing the responsibility each of them has in their message, but there is no one in Compromise with a friendly force or part of our government, mainly because we will make mistakes. In this 28M we must decide what future we want for our Community and we will see political pluralism on the left. The opponent is those who reject climate change, who prefer to benefit the four supporters rather than the majority of the citizens. The enemy is right-wing forces, not Botanic.
This will be the first campaign without a Monica Oltra figure. How does this change things?
Obviously, it’s not easy. Mónica has been a touchstone for Compromís and it has not been an easy year for either him or Compromís. Right now, in this campaign, we also highlight all the work he did at Botànic at the beginning of his Vice Presidency during those seven years that he developed this policy and carried out through Compromís and that Compromís had to do. leave it to win to reaffirm all this work and continue this roadmap.
Will Mónica Oltra have a place in a hypothetical third Botànic?
It’s too personal a question for me to answer on his behalf.
Could a figure like Joan Baldoví, always identified with the most Valencian branch of Compromís, punish them in Alicante?
Joan Baldoví is a well-known person, people love her and she also tried to be our deputy in Congress from Alicante. During these eleven years as a Member of Parliament, he played a pivotal role for these regions at a very difficult time in Madrid where governments of different colors marginalize us every year. Baldoví has always been there to help the people of Alicante and this work will be appreciated.
In a context like the current one, what fit does Compromís have in a region like Vega Baja?
It is full lace. Compromís has established policies aligned with the interests of Vega Baja residents. The problem with Vega Baja is not Valencian. Maybe there are political forces that make them believe that Valencian is the problem, but for me it will never be a problem for my son to learn another language. It’s also okay for Botànic, and in this case the department led by Compromís, to defend the Tajo-Segura transfer and the water for the irrigators. Of course, there is something that makes us different: We did this while considering and implementing the suggestions for the future in order not to be bound by that transfer.
And if policies were so aligned with Vega Baja, why was it the region that resisted them the most?
Compromise is a coalition of three parties; there is clearly a Valencian party here, and maybe with the Valencian war that PP has set up in Vega Baja, that would be taken as a negative thing, but if I learned something in this eleven, as vice president for months, when I went to Vega Baja and the Government administration When I explained it, people responded positively and saw that the message PP had sent was not Reconciliation.
What does Compromís expect from the state of Alicante?
I hope the state of Alicante decides on Botany to the Government. This May 28th, we Alicante men and women decide who will form the next government and what this government is important and how it will relate to us. There are two ways to do this: to leave the areas in infrastructure, health care, especially Marina Alta and Vega Baja, as the PP did years ago… Or it can be done like Botànic, in addition to that, under the Compromís chairmanship, the most councilors to Alicante places, has a vice president from Alicante and their positions are permanently in Alicante as we believe in decentralization.
Is Compromís a conservative party as Podemos says?
No, no matter what Podemos says, no.
And why these explanations?
Whoever needs to differentiate himself and has to do so by addressing the other will have to explain why. It’s an election campaign for me, and it gets on the nerves of the campaign itself.
Yolanda Díaz will campaign with Unides Podem in Alicante, although her backing is Compromís. How is it explained?
Yolanda Díaz is not running for these elections, she will run for state elections when necessary. What is normal and logical right now is that the vice-president of the Government of a party like United We Can is campaigning for Unides Podem. In any case, in this normality, we at Compromís do not consider it necessary to discuss Madrid issues in this campaign. This misrepresents what the May 28 elections are about. What needs to be put at the center of the discussion now is whether Botànic and each of the parties that created it were well-managed, whether we republish them or not.
In any case, Compromís was at the Sumar presentation just a few weeks after the campaign started…
Every game has a rhythm and we’ve always said we want to join Sumar but we still don’t know what that will lead to. Meanwhile, we have municipal and district elections to attend, fight and win. It will come back.
Could the split aggravate them?
People know the Compromís project, have trusted our project for years and know what we can do in Government.
The Compromís program basically revolves around the strengthening of public services. Have they failed in this sense to bring this program up after eight years in government?
No, it didn’t fail. During these eight years we’ve freed the public services from the clutches of privatization and the oblivion that the PP had dragged them into, and we didn’t have time to do it because of all the emergency we had to do in this second legislature. finish consolidation in this third Botànic.
And where are the priorities at the provincial level?
We have very stressful areas in Alicante, coastal areas where there are only temporary rentals, exorbitant prices and very high inflation. Therefore, the priority is to have a mass housing stock. We could be around 2,500 in the next legislature. Then there is another very important one, and I say this as a user, and that is the reversal of the two hospitals whose sanitary concession remains, the one in La Marina and the one in Vinalopó. Afterwards, mitigating the effects of climate change, trying to be self-sufficient in terms of water and changing the production model to adapt to the climate conditions we have, promoting innovation and digitalization and greatly diversifying different production models, and then retaining the talent, leaving.
What’s next for the tourist tax?
The tourism tax comes into effect, but on a voluntary basis for mayors who wish to apply it from 2024. Now, I dare say we’re going to have big surprises from people who say I won’t. And who, when the Mayor’s Office reopens, it will seem like a very good idea to both improve the quality of life of the residents and provide better service to the incoming tourists.
Do you see Baldoví in Consell?
Yes, I see him as president.
And how does it look to you?
I see myself defending Botany, I don’t know if it’s from the Council or the Cortes. Politically speaking, I am Botànic’s daughter, and it is important that the people who lived through these years helped make this third Botànic.