Control by the post-Oltra Compromís reopens the internal war after the electoral truce
In Compromís there has always been a hidden debate, which comes and goes depending on the circumstances and the political moment: how and when to move from a coalition of parties to a single party for all purposes. The fact that this dilemma has not yet been resolved is what has ended up causing the last and definitive internal war to explode, which is none other than the one that is being fought between the two main legs of one of the partners of Sumar and Yolanda Díaz.
What is decided on the battlefield is the control of a coalition that lived as a real shock the departure of its former leader and indisputable reference, the former Valencian vice president Mónica Oltra, dragged in court for the cause of the abuses of her ex-husband to a minor under guardianship. On one side is his party, Iniciativa, which despite not being the majority partner, achieved with Oltra a share of power that was difficult to contest by the old Bloc. On the other side is this party, renamed Més, to which the current spokesman in the Valencian Parliament, Joan Baldoví, belongs.
Més is the majority party of Compromís, but it always remained in the background behind Oltra. With her offside, what Més is looking for is a rebalancing of forces for the post-Oltra era. That is, to recover ground and power within the coalition. After the electoral truce, Compromís has not taken long to blow up, being on the verge of breaking due to the election of the territorial senator that corresponded to this formation.
There is another factor that helps to understand this latest crisis: the loss of institutional power after the debacle of 28-M. In this sense, a benchmark in Més such as Enric Morera -he was one of its founders-, had been left without accommodation for this legislature. He did not enter the Valencian Parliament as a deputy, an institution that he presided over for the last eight years. That's why Més wanted to reinstate him in the Senate, for which Iniciativa wanted his former senator Carles Mulet.
The rift in Compromís is already public and notorious, to the point that the deputies of Iniciativa refused in the regional parliament to vote with those of Més on Morera's candidacy for territorial senator. While PP -in alliance with Vox- and PSOE smoothly carried out the candidacies of who will be their senators, the Compromís parliamentary group voted divided.
For the deputy spokesperson for Compromís, Aitana Mas (Initiative), Més's movement is truly “disloyalty”. Of “extreme seriousness”, in the words of the co-spokesman of the Initiative, Alberto Ibáñez, because “it breaks trust and the agreement”.
Above all because it also comes after Baldoví's party also placed one of their own (Maria Josep Amigó) on the Table of the Cortes. In the last legislature, the spokesperson in the Cortes also corresponded to Més (Baldoví's predecessor was Papi Robles), but because Iniciativa exercised the highest representation of Compromís in the Valencian Government. Mas herself was the vice president of the Generalitat in substitution of Oltra. Without being in the Government, the visibility of Initiative is considerably reduced.
In its struggle with the old Bloc, Iniciativa has announced that it is leaving the Compromís bodies until its partner is able to redirect the situation. Fuentes de Més, however, call this “unilateral reaction” absolutely “disproportionate”. In the surroundings of Baldoví a clear message is sent: the blood will not reach the river, but “time is needed” to rebuild the bridges that, to this day, are broken.