Mónica Oltra, in her appearance to announce her resignation at the Compromís headquarters on June 21, 2022. Jorge Gil (Europa Press)
Former Vice President Mónica Oltra will have until January to present herself to the primaries to be a candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat by Compromís, like any other candidate.
But the coalition has kept a wild card to be able to recover it until the last minute before the official presentation of the lists in the electoral board a few months later.
Thus, a greater margin of time is granted so that your current legal situation can be clarified.
The leader will declare on September 19 as an investigator before the investigating judge for her management as an Equality counselor for the protection of a minor who was sexually abused by her ex-husband, a case on which the Supreme has yet to rule.
She, after resigning on June 21 from all her charges and from the act of deputy, will go before the judge without being appraised of her.
The National Compromís Executive approves this Tuesday its regulations for the primaries of the next municipal and regional elections and their calendar, with January 21 as the last day to present regional candidates.
But, in addition, an additional provision has been introduced that indicates that the executive committee may "at any time prior to the legalization of the lists, include modifications with Compromís personalities".
An obvious nod to Oltra.
Most likely, the next regional elections will be called at the same time as the municipal ones on May 28, 2023.
Compromís will wait for Oltra but will set in motion a plan b: Joan Baldoví.
He will empower the national deputy and one of the best-known faces of the coalition in the coming months to promote his candidacy for
president
but, if Oltra is finally exonerated and wants to, Baldoví will step aside and there will be no competition for number 1 and head the list, according to training sources.
If Oltra does not arrive on time or does not want to be a candidate, the next option is that she lead the list to Congress or join as a representative of the formation in a prominent position in Vice President Yolanda Díaz's Sumar coalition if she finally works out.
The former vice president has headed the Compromís lists in the last two regional elections.
Free hands for Ribó
The addresses of the coalition parties (Més Compromís, Initiative of the Poble Valencià i Verds Equo) must also approve regulations that in the case of the regional ones have as a novelty that
Oltra clause
and another similar one to incorporate independents and that give a turn for the municipal
The changes come after the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, has insisted that the system made it difficult to incorporate valuable independents and the formation of balanced teams.
The political veteran, who right now with Baldoví is the great electoral value of the formation, has not wanted to confirm his willingness to repeat as a candidate until he knows the regulations.
The training has designed several alternatives for each municipality to decide.
They will be able to hold primaries for the entire list, open to citizens as they have been until now, or only for militants.
They will also be able to make primaries, open or closed, to elect the head of the list, and agree on the rest of the list or, directly, agree on the entire list, which is what seems to be happening in Valencia.
In that case, Ribó could make his disposition official in a couple of weeks.
In the 2019 elections, in which the regional ones were a month before the municipal ones, Compromís obtained twelve thousand more votes in the city of Valencia than in the regional ones, while in 2015, with the two ballot boxes at the same time, there were hardly any thousand votes difference.
That endorsement has given strength to the mayor.
The choice of the itinerary must have the approval of 75% of the local assembly of each municipality and in the event that the list is agreed, it must have the support of 66% of the assembly in Valencia, Alicante, Castelló and Elche and 75% in the rest of the municipalities.