The PSPV, Compromís and Unides Podem demand that the PP stop blocking the renewal of seven statutory bodies

The parliamentary groups of the Botanical Pact open the way for the renewal of statutory bodies and demand that the PP cease the blockade. The PSPV, Compromís and Unides Podem have sent a letter to the Board of the Valencian Corts to request the opening of the period to present candidacies to seven organizations with their expired mandate. The deadline will expire on March 20, which forces parliamentarians to reach an agreement this week by March 28, the last plenary session of the legislature.

The five parties that are addressing the renewal -all except Vox- have held a meeting this Tuesday to resume talks, without a fruitful agreement. The parties propose a package renewal, a negotiation between all the forces with representation, and they reproach the PP for its opposition. “The PP excludes itself for purely partisan interests. They prefer to keep someone convicted of violence than to do what a democratic and state party has to do,” said Carmen Martínez, deputy spokesperson for the Socialists, referring to the Vox candidate for the Generalitat, Carlos Flores Juberías, who is a member of the Consell of Transparency.

This criticism has been joined by the spokesperson for Ciudadanos, who censures the position of Carlos Mazón, president of the PP of the Valencian Community. “Let’s stop with quotas, let’s talk about profiles that add up,” Mamen Peris urged, guaranteeing that they will continue negotiating “until the last day.” The PP, for its part, criticizes the “rush” and “the interest in placing non-independent members with political cards”, but its spokesperson, Maria José Catalá, has assured that they are willing to have a “healthy negotiation” and depoliticized.

On behalf of Unides Podem, Estefanía Blanes has insisted that her intention is for “all groups to join” the negotiation, that they “propose names of their trust or their criteria” and reproaches the popular ones for maintaining the same attitude from the beginning of the negotiations. Catalá has guaranteed that the PP is still willing to reach an agreement, but has demanded that the appointments be depoliticized and start a “healthy and responsible” negotiation between all the groups. “We have always been willing with respect and institutional responsibility,” she asserted, but “without pseudo-threats.”

The organizations pending renewal, which require between 60 and 66 deputies, are the Consell Jurídic Consultiu, the Sindicatura de Comptes, the Sindicatura de Greuges, the Consell Valencia de Cultura, the Consell de Transparència, the Consell de Universitats and the Consell Rector of the Valencian Corporation of Mitjans de Comunicació.