Loli Benlloch | Valencia (EFE)
Ximo Puig (PSPV): In fear of the third mandate
The president of the Generalitat since 2015 and candidate for re-election for the PSPV-PSOE, Ximo Puig (Morella, Castellón, 1959), aspires to a third term on 28M, with the expectation that his party will not only repeat as the most voted but rather broaden its electoral support, to the point that there are socialist leaders who have slipped the possibility of governing alone.
The published surveys suggest that only with a reissue of the Botànic pact (currently made up of PSPV, Compromís and Podem) would the main regional socialist ‘baron’ and the only 2019 candidate who repeats revalidate the presidency of the Consell, with the difference that this time he heads the list for the Valencia constituency, the one that elects the largest number of deputies in an election whose result is expected to be very close between the bloc on the left and the bloc on the right.
Carlos Mazón (PP): The challenge of recovering an electoral stronghold
The president of the PPCV for two and a half years, Carlos Mazón (Alicante, 1974), debuted as a candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, replacing Isabel Bonig with the great challenge of recovering on 28M the “electoral stronghold” that his party He governed for two decades, until the arrival of the Botànic eight years ago, and with the ambition of governing alone, although polls suggest that he will need Vox.
With the pressure to win which the national leader of his party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has publicly urged, the president of the Alicante Provincial Council -from where he has exercised as a counterpower to the Generalitat- admits, in his leap from provincial politics to the autonomic one, that everything that is not winning or governing “will be a suspense”.
Joan Baldoví: Oltra’s relief stops Compromís from feeling resentful
Joan Baldoví (Swedish, Valencia, 1958) makes the leap in these elections from national politics -deputy in Congress since 2011- to regional politics to be the Compromís candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat and thus pick up the baton from Mónica Oltra , the applicant of 2015 and 2019.
After Oltra’s abrupt departure from politics ten months ago, accused of allegedly concealing in the Ministry of Equality the abuses of her ex-husband against a minor under guardianship, with the candidacy of Baldoví -one of the most well-known and valued politicians in the polls- it seeks that Compromís does not suffer at the polls and is once again decisive for a Botànic III.
Héctor Illueca: Que Podemos sume for a third Botanic
The second vice-president of the Consell and maximum representative of Podem in the Valencian Government since the middle of this legislature, Héctor Illueca (Valencia, 1975), takes over from the person he has already replaced in the Executive, Rubén Martínez Dalmau, as candidate of the purple formation for the presidency of the Generalitat.
Illueca, who joined active politics three years ago, has the responsibility of ensuring that the smallest force of the three ‘botánicas’ and that once again competes in coalition with Esquerra Unida, joins so that the left-wing tripartite reaches at least to 50 deputies in Les Corts (the number of the absolute majority) on 28M and the government pact is reissued.
Mamen Peris (Cs): All the polls against
The trustee of Ciudadanos in Les Corts since January 18, Mamen Peris (Alboraya, Valencia, 1967) assumes the major challenge of being the candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat of a decomposing formation that has all the polls against it.
Unlike 2019, when the candidacy led by Toni Cantó gathered 470,600 votes and obtained 18 deputies -the third largest group in Les Corts-, the polls suggest that this time they will not obtain representation in the Valencian Parliament, where they broke into 2015.
Carlos Flores (Vox): The support of the PP to govern
The professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Valencia Carlos Flores Juberías (Valencia, 1964) also makes his debut as a candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat de Vox, a party that arrived in Les Corts in 2019 with ten deputies and seeks to be decisive in a hypothetical Government with the PP if there is a change of cycle and in which they have already requested the vice presidency, as in the Executive of Castilla y León.
After the appointment of Flores, who replaces José María Llanos as a candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, it was learned that in 2002 he was convicted of sexist violence against his ex-wife, about which the candidate has said that he was wrong then but now he reaches the 28M with “a clean sheet”.
