Losses from the Poble Valencià Initiative, one of the three pillars that make up the Compromís (along with the majority party Més and Equo verds), continue. Mónica Oltra’s party has been losing key members since this week, València councilor Sergi Campillo, former València councilor Lluïsa Notario and former top officials Dani Mestre and José de Lamo announced their resignations from the party due to disagreements with the leadership of the same party.
Today the former regional secretary, Helena Ferrando And one of the founders of the party and former general manager Mercé Martínez, They sent a letter to the Provincial Proposed Initiative in which they announced their resignation from both the Ministry of Equality and Inclusive Policies in the last parliament. All people who leave education will be integrated Remains loyal to Compromís but will not be part of any of the three parties those who form the coalition.
In the letter he sent to the Initiative, Ferrando says that he feels “sadness” but that it is time to be “brave” and that “I have to accept that time has passed, I cannot be in a people’s project, I have to work for a collective project.” and for the public good,” says Ferrando in his article.unit“It is a strong leftist, Valencian, environmentalist and feminist organization; it has an agile functioning and is capable of coordinating all the activities of our groups effectively and consistently.” vicious discussionsnever quite close, distribution of responsibilities and representation quotas“.
“No matter how much this tries to hide programmatic or ideological differences, the dynamic of debate regarding the distribution of partisan positions in the institutions in which we are located is not intelligible to citizens and can ultimately damage the accumulated credit and prestige. According to the lines written by Sergi Campillo in the letter sent by Ferrando, so far “You are determined,” he says.
“We are heading towards a federation of parties”
Therefore, he believes that the solution in this new political cycle is “to move forward with a federation of parties or a stable structure similar to that decided at the previous Initiative congress.” Herrando believes this is the solution.”This again is not about opening up any thought process around it, it’s about knowing why you haven’t moved even a single step in this direction. all this time. Frankly, I don’t see myself willing to work for this or that,” he says, noting that he prefers to work for Compromís as a whole. “I request with the intention of resigning from membership of the initiative. “Joining those affiliated with Compromís believes that this is the best way to make Compromís stronger as the only viable project and an important organization,” he concludes.
Conflict over appointment of regional senator
Internal disputes within the Compromí coalition have been going on for months. Since July, the coalition’s organic relations have been frozen, with the Initiative breaking away from partner organizations within Compromís due to the election of Enric Morera as Més regional senator instead of Carles Mulet. two term senator..
The Initiative considered this position to be theirs, but the Més, since they had two deputies in Congress (Àgueda Micó de Més and Alberto Ibáñez from the Initiative), thought that the position in the Senate corresponded to being the majority party in the coalition, which caused anger in the Initiative happened. Oltra’s party had by now been disemboweled.