Walking into Sueca at ten in the morning on a Tuesday makes the outside world seem so far away. The wind, the sun touching its streets, flowed frightfully, the neighbors immersed in their daily lives. The ambulance picks up a woman, the shops greet the ladies and gentlemen with their shopping carts and say hello. a city. Especially that of Comprom’s candidate for the Presidency of the Generalitat and former deputy of Congress Joan Baldoví.
Sueca is the base camp. You can always do miles returning to town. It is where his home, his family, his people are. Those who know him say so. The route starts from the municipal market. As soon as you walk in you will find Salvador’s butcher. Three ladies line up and this newspaper adds to the wait. Voro cuts, packs and repeats. “Vedella has just arrived, this will be molting,” she says to her neighbor who asks about the product.
“Everybody Asks Him”
market butcher Knowing Joan Baldoví for decades. Almost thirty years. Recall that he was even on the Settlement list as an independent candidate in a municipal election. He describes Baldoví as a “great guy” and recalls that “he rode his bike here and there” when he was mayor, and that he “was very patient when it came to buying” as a member of parliament all these years. The reason is that “everyone asks him, talks to him and he takes care of everyone”.
What is usually taken is sobrasada with putxeret and llaveretes. This is the Sueca name for the “It’ll be like Sueca’s Easter sausage” sausage. Lamb and duck are brought in Sant Roc to make with young garlic and potatoes at Christmas. He’s a “good guy”. “Here, ‘Try it in some sobrassa, the tea has a special taste’”. This magazine fits.
A few blocks up is Jordi. Viñoles hairdresser is around the corner. And it adapts to the crazy schedules of politics. This is how Jordi tells it when he cuts the hair of a young villager. “I knew Joan Baldoví because she was from the town, but she’s been coming for a haircut for a year and a half. Open and closed, noble, simple. A normal person,” the hairdresser describes. He points out that at the moment the candidate for the Presidency of the Generalitat visits a small place about once every two weeks. “She comes in very often. She likes to go with very short hair, says otherwise she doesn’t feel comfortable in her day-to-day political activities. She needs to be cleared and I think she takes it seriously. “It’s okay to want to be comfortable with the lights on all day.” they talk about mountain and road bikes for their loved ones.Do you make an appointment with a calendar in your hand?The barber laughs. “Well, you have to do him a favor from time to time,” she said in an amused tone.. “Sometimes I need to make room for it urgently, but I get it, the rhythms it causes are crazy,” she says.
A little more than two and a half kilometers away is the small town of Riola. Very close to Sueca, where Baldoví grew up, is a town the island also has very close ties to. He was a teacher at CEIP Miguel Hernández, candidate for the Generalitat and thus far a member of the Congress of Representatives, and on the doorstep of the training center lives Salvador Vendrell, a retired teacher, writer and also his brother. law. “We met when she was nine, in high school. We’ve been friends ever since.” And the family said, “We’re married and have two sisters.”
They entered politics together at the age of 16. “Well, he was more ‘festero’ than me who was involved before, so he always tells me it’s my fault that he’s committed to politics.”says Vendrell. On the table is the book published by Joan Baldoví in 2017. in Valencia clau. They started in the military when they were young, “a generation that grew up during the transition period in Sueca and learned a lot by going to Joan Fuster’s house.” Vendrell details that Baldoví is “molting,” always returning home. He has a “very close” family. “We all get along very well and get together for any excuse. All. We will spend the day of reflection as a family.
They were watching football at Vendrell’s house last Sunday, «he is from Valencia CF and I am from Barça, but football is an excuse to get together with the family’s third brother-in-law, Manolo. Normally, Baldo brings ‘panaetes’, tuna ravioli and ‘brossa’, spinach”, says Vendrell. If Baldoví is doing something, it means “working hard”. Vendrell says he knew before Baldoví told him he would run for Generalitat President. “It’s not easy being a leader and that’s what it was meant to be”. Vendrell believes that while his brother-in-law has “some temptation to retire”, politics “is a poison, a drug, that he loves her so much. He leaves his skin ».