Alejandro Soler He worked without improvisation. In the days at Fitur, almost a small-scale socialist congress, tied up the final details and called those closest to yesterday’s announcement to Elx. There were negotiations on one side and strategy on the other. initiation of candidacy.
Rumors have been circulating throughout Thursday that Alicante’s secretary general will take action, but he remains silent. He neither confirms nor denies. In the afternoon he took the decisive step: he telephoned the PSOE’s number three (and personal friend), Santos Cerdán, and told him what his people already knew: the next afternoon (yesterday) he announced his candidacy. Leading PSPV. Soon after, Pedro Sánchez receives the information. Shortly thereafter, Ferraz handed it over to Minister Diana Morant. The primary scenario would come true.
The former mayor of Gandia is expediting the formation of a team for the confrontation at the polls. Having had little organic life in the past, he prefers the close and the known. Vicent Mascarell, one of his trusted figures in Safor (Organizing Secretary of the State of Valencia, under the third candidate Carlos Fernández Bielsa), is already his right-hand man in the mission to win the secretary general. The focus of contacts ranges from primary stars to secondary actors through to the ‘barons’ of key municipalities seeking transfer of support.
Soler has dinner with some of his most loyal and loyal men Closing the details of today’s day. He calls Morant late at night. Just over a minute. According to the sources interviewed, he conveys what the minister already knows and keeps the door open to agreements in the process that opens.
The separation followed days of offers and counteroffers to dissolve command positions. The first was Soler, who upset Morant with an offer that gave Morant the general secretary and left him control of the party. The minister’s counter-offer gave him the presidency, the first deputy secretary to himself, the second to Bielsa, and veto power in the Organization. There was no agreement. It was seen.
When Soler appeared yesterday, Bielsa and Morant spoke again in Valencia, as in Fitur the previous days. There is no public progress.