The general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE and Minister of Science, Diana Morant, has called to open the party to society and “mobilize 100,000 activists for change” who will decide, together with the socialists, their project, leaderships, and candidacies, including the presidency of the Generalitat.
She stated this during the National Committee of the Valencian socialists, held this Saturday at the UGT headquarters in Valencia, where representatives of Valencian civil society were invited to participate, such as associations of victims of the dana or of the teaching staff, who start an indefinite strike on Monday. The event marks the opening of a new cycle in the party ahead of next year’s elections.
Accompanied by the Minister of Finance, Arcadi España, the Government delegate in the Comunitat and secretary of Equality of the PSOE, Pilar Bernabé, and the former president of the Generalitat Ximo Puig, Morant predicted that “the defeat of populism, denialism, antifeminism, racism, and all the reactionary policies of the right and far right will begin in the Valencian Community.”
During her speech, she highlighted that “there is finally only one year left” until the elections and for the Comunitat “to once again be a respected and respectable land” and “with dignity as its banner,” and she presented a project for the PSPV based on three pillars: “unite, open, and lead.”
In this regard, she emphasized the importance of being united as a party to recover the Generalitat and the town halls, but also of opening up and incorporating “all the people who do not resign themselves” and who “want to be protagonists of change in the Valencian Community.”
Specifically, she announced the launch of a large mobilization to incorporate 100,000 people into the socialist project as “activists for change,” involving them both in the development of the political program and in the construction of candidacies in the main cities and in the Presidency of the Generalitat.
Morant also stated that she did not step forward “just to be general secretary” of the PSPV-PSOE, but “to win and to restore dignity to this land and its people,” and she committed to personally leading this new political stage with “humility, respect, and ambition.” It is understood that the intention is for the primaries to be open to registered sympathizers and not only to militants. Puig called militants and sympathizers to his primaries.
Before leaders, public officials, militants, and representatives of Valencian social groups, the general secretary of the PSPV also claimed the need to build a political alternative “by listening to and supporting” the social sectors affected by the policies of the PP Council.
Morant showed her support for the victims of the dana, who spoke at the National Committee at the party’s invitation, and said that listening to the affected families “has been a lesson in dignity, courage, and truth.” She also reaffirmed the PSPV’s commitment to reconstruction and to public management “based on empathy, transparency, and responsibility.”
The socialist leader also took on the demands of the Valencian educational community, which also addressed the members of the National Committee through one of its representatives, and defended that “the teaching staff deserve respect, stability, and resources.”
Furthermore, she advocated strengthening public healthcare, guaranteeing access to housing, and protecting public services against privatizations promoted by the right, and she claimed the recovery of Valencian self-government, the development of Civil Law, and fair financing for the Comunitat. Diana Morant criticized the PP governments in the Valencian Community and stated that the Valencian right “always ends up offering the same result: cuts, corruption, lies, and lack of empathy.”
At the National Committee, the appointment of Ciprià Ciscar as president of the PSPV-PSOE was ratified, whom the general secretary thanked for putting “his management and party experience at the service of Valencian progressivism tirelessly.”
Morant thanked the presence of “the architects of the best things that have happened to Valencians,” among whom she mentioned Ximo Puig, and thanked him “for all the dignity, dedication, and empathy in the worst moments.” Puig, for his part, valued the project of opening to society presented by Diana Morant and highlighted the listening process now underway, in which proposals and ideas must be gathered and in which “we must also warn about those far-right populisms that offer easy solutions to complex problems.”
The National Committee also featured interventions by the PSOE secretary of Equality, Pilar Bernabé, and the secretary of Mobility of the Federal Executive Commission and Minister of Finance, Arcadi España, who encouraged working this year to “turn the Comunitat around.”
