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Valencia

Updated Thursday, February 29, 2024-13:19

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He himself had already taken it upon himself to say that, once the rod of command was lost, the legislature would not end.

And so it has been, because the one who was mayor of Valencia between 2015 and 2023 after winning

Rita Barberá

's PP , Joan Ribó, will leave the City Council in the coming days.

Compromís thus loses another of her references, after the traumatic departure of Mónica Oltra when she was charged in the case in which she investigates the alleged concealment of her ex-husband's sexual abuse of a warded minor.

The party has confirmed that the former mayor will formalize his resignation as a councilor in the coming days.

The decision comes, in fact, months after he took a first step to move away from the front line and hand over the Compromís spokesperson in the City Council to

Papi Robles

.

Even so, Ribó, 76 years old, has starred in different political initiatives throughout this time.

The position that Ribó will leave vacant in his municipal group will be occupied, following the order of the electoral list with which Compromís participated in the 28-M elections last year, by

Lluïsa Notario

, currently advisor to this political coalition in the town hall and councilor. of the government team in the previous mandate.

Compromís sources have assessed Ribó's decision as a "normal and natural step."

Now, the truth is that his definitive farewell to active municipal politics occurs at a delicate moment for Compromís.

The Valencian coalition is not only immersed in the internal debate about whether or not to run with

Sumar

in the next European elections, as there is no unanimity.

Compromís, furthermore, faced this year as the definitive one to close once and for all the discussion on what its structure should be.

In this sense, Ribó was one of the voices that had advocated for a single party, a formula that does not convince Initiative, the party led by Oltra and which is going through its own internal crisis.

Joan Ribó, who was part of the previous party leadership, is not in the current one.

Compromís does not rule out that he joins some "honorary" position from which he can contribute his political "experience" to the party, both as a deputy in the Cortes and as a councilor and mayor.