The sandwich that awaits Ximo Puig (and Diana Morant and Bielsa)

The Port of Valencia has been just a test. A first trial by fire that will culminate at the end of November/beginning of December in the scenario being prepared in Madrid by the Conexus Foundation chaired by the lawyer Manuel Broseta.. In what will be the II Madrid-Valencian Community Business Summit, with logistics and transportation as sectoral axes of the meeting, the bulk of businessmen with interests in the port super-expansion will raise the tone to demand that the Government definitively authorize the multimillion-dollar work.

This type of meeting has been more of an opportunity for the usual medical team to take the AVE and spend the day in Madrid, resolve some of their issues and meet later at some party in which the ratio of Valencian businessman to Madrid businessman is being 10 to 1, the capital of the Kingdom is quite saturated with parties and events.

In order to link well with the economic powers and the Valencian bourgeoisie, the socialist Ximo Puig elevated Broseta almost to the category of ambassador of the Generalitat, giving him the autonomous Administration building on Españoleto street for free with the task of contacting “the decision nuclei” (Puig dixit) in favor of the interests of the Valencian Community. We do not know what came of that mandate, but Broseta, who, as Giorgio Gaber sang, was always more right than left, has invited the two regional presidents, Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Carlos, to the Conexus meeting, this time Mazón, who if no setbacks occur will hold their first bilateral meeting under the umbrella of the Business Foundation. Ayuso, let us remember, was already at the investiture session of the new president, to which, by the way, Alberto Núñez Feijóo did not attend, who in those days was removing the leaves of his relationship with Santiago Abascal..

Mazón and Ayuso, we said, it is certain that they will agree in demanding before Pedro Sánchez the importance of moving forward with the infrastructure, they will send warnings about alleged hidden pacts with ERC and Junts in favor of the Port of Barcelona and they will launch, as popular barons, a first opposition front policy to the new PSOE and Sumar Government, if the socialist leader is finally inaugurated before November 27, something that remains to be seen.

In that environment of political confrontation that is coming, where the PPCV and the Council of the Generalitat in coalition with Vox are preparing the claim powder (autonomous financing, investments in the State General Budget, water…), the PSPV and Compromise, who still haven't digested the defeat of 28-M.

With the figure of Ximo Puig oscillating between an indefinite role of queen mother and Chinese vase (Carlos Mazón was deleted from the first control session), the Valencian socialists are experiencing a dead calm waiting for the internal congressional processes to start, probably not before summer 2024. Nobody knows if Puig will end up taking a step back (the voices that promoted him as ministerable are already fading) and will open himself to a new leadership led by Diana Morant, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, Alejandro Soler or some other hidden person.. Even the name of José Luis Ábalos is still not ruled out.

What is certain is that the sandwich will be for all of them. Focused as they are on the organic matter, even if it is still in a low intensity format, the second federation of the PSOE runs the risk of waking up one morning pierced by a Valencia/Madrid crossfire from which the popular Mazón will surely take advantage..

Ximo Puig discovered very soon that, in terms of political narrative, he lived much better against Mariano Rajoy than with Pedro Sánchez in the Moncloa. There is no better proof of this than the fact that he has lost the Generalitat despite having his party sitting in the presidency of the Government and occupying all the investment ministries.. It did him not served of for a lot. On the contrary, it harmed him. It is certain that the new conservative regional president will not miss the opportunity to try to make Sánchez guilty of all the evils that plague the Valencian Community, marking a line to indicate where each one stands.. The good and the bad Valencians. It is already generating the necessary complicities, both economic and media.

The PSOE faces the next legislature with a considerable gap in territorial power and the Valencian Community, like Andalusia, are key pieces of that puzzle. The Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, who is also deputy secretary of the PSPV, has sent Moncloa the pertinent warnings about what is to come via periodic reports. In a party of order, working groups would be created, resistance committees with links to Ferraz would be organized and defensive batteries would be charged to have some option that the next electoral event in 2027 would not be the confirmation of a new long stage. of autonomous governments of the PP. But we are talking about PSPV, and its past of navelism and cainism does not bode well for its future.