Inma Lidón Valencia
Valencia
Updated Tuesday, January 30, 2024-18:28
There will be no organic battle for leadership in the
Valencian PSOE
. The Minister of Science,
Diana Morant
, will be the one to succeed
Ximo Puig
as the general secretary of the PSPV after the provincial secretaries of Valencia and Alicante,
Carlos Fernández Bielsa
and
Alejandro Soler
, have confirmed to Ferraz that they will withdraw their candidacies.
The agreement was reached by surprise in Madrid, after a long meeting led by the Organization Secretary,
Santos Cerdán
, and attended by the three candidates. However, you still have fringes that will have to be polished in the next few hours.
Bielsa and Soler have confirmed their intention not to begin collecting endorsements this Wednesday if Morant guaranteed the integration of their teams in the new direction of the party. The certainty that Morant is Ferraz's candidate and the movement generated around her since she officially presented her candidacy yesterday has especially led Fernández Bielsa to make the decision to take a step alongside her.
According to sources consulted by this newspaper, the mayor of Mislata called Ferraz to propose integration, seeking that she be
supervised by the national leadership
, something that the PSPV had tried to avoid so as not to convey the feeling of tutelage of the minister's candidacy. . "She was going to win the primaries, they realized it and now they wanted to seek rapprochement," say sources close to Morant.
Bielsa was supposed to be in Madrid today at an event of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and Alejandro Soler, reluctant to attend, ended up giving in when he learned of the other candidate's withdrawal. It was time to look for the best pact. That is why Morant, who was not planning to attend either, ended up showing up at a long meeting interrupted by Cerdán's need to go to Congress to vote on the Amnesty Law.
Negotiations underway
None has made public their withdrawal in favor of a unity candidacy around Diana Morant and the reason is that they are negotiating this integration.
From the minister's entourage it is made clear that there is a desire to join forces, but there will be no transfers either in the number of members of the Executive, which will be controlled by her, or in the
Organization Secretariat
, since it carries the organic weight of the party and for whom Morant already has names in mind, "who could have the approval of Soler and Bielsa."
The two deputy general secretaries, numbers 2 and 3 of the party, could be reserved for them.