The options for Monica Oltra to repeat as a candidate for Compromís in the regional elections next May are disappearing. What was a hypothesis until now is taking its place as the most likely option. With the deadlines far from coinciding with the politicians and almost seven months before the 2023 regional elections and the calendar continues to tick, the presiding officer of Court No. 15 in Valencia has offered a six-month extension in the investigation. will exceed the period determined by law.
Moreover, the judge who ordered the case regarding the alleged cover-up by Oltra’s ministry in the case of the minor who was abused by her ex-husband, at that time brought the minor under the guardianship of the Generalitat. Who was the witness, her boyfriend and family.
The extension assumes that new challenges will arise for the former vice-president in the judicial process, making it almost impossible for Oltra to once again lead the coalition’s candidacy.
Again, the former Minister of Equality resigned from the prosecutor’s office shortly after hearing the report supporting his summons as a defendant by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ).
Compromís this situation, the possible absence of the Generalitat’s presidential candidate in 2015, the best historical result of the Valencian left, 19 MPs, and also when 2019 reaches the current 17.
The majority of the coalition has already initiated the candidacy of Joan Baldoví. However, Oltra’s party, Poble Valencià’s Initiative, refused to accept that Baldoví would be the only candidate for the citizens-open primaries he had to hold to form the coalition’s electoral candidacy.
He has been denounced from the Oltra sector for not waiting until February, the deadline the coalition has given him to present possible candidates, and even vice president Aitana Mas, who has taken over all the powers of the former vice president, is not yet a leafless daisy as to whether she will compete with Baldoví for the regional nomination.
judicial prudence
The judicial move that can now definitively remove Oltra from his candidacy is contained in the Valencia 15th Code of Criminal Procedure, which became known this Friday.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office and the parties suggest that they be heard personally, as to whether it is acceptable to extend the investigation period by six months according to the law. three days.
Plan B would be to go to the generals
Oltra’s options to run for district elections are significantly reduced when the judge proposes to extend the judicial investigation by half a year. But the coalition has a way in its charter that allows him to wait until almost the last day of the statutory deadline to include the former vice president in his regional candidacy if he decides. If the case were filed before May, it would be Comprom’s executive who would step in and decide whether to include it in the candidacy. Plan b, if it had come in time, would in principle be to propose the candidacy in the general elections to be held at the end of 2023. This is the option in case the process opens in the future. From May to December 2023. C.ALÓS