Valencia (EFE) for the investiture, but they want to participate in the provincial government and carry some area of responsibility.
“We are not going to give a blank check”
“We are not going to give blank checks”, Rodríguez assured the media after collecting in the City of Justice of Valencia the sentence that acquits him of all crimes, like the rest of the defendants, in the case Alquería, which judged the hiring of people related to the PSPV and Compromís in the public company Imelsa.
He has asked to wait for the final count this Friday of the results of the municipal elections and that it be confirmed that indeed the deputy of the Ontinyent judicial party is for Ens Uneix (a party he created after being arrested for the Alquería case and being suspended from militancy in the PSPV) and from that moment they will enter into negotiations with the parties, since that vote depends on whether the Provincial Council is for the right or for the left, since both blocks add up to 15 deputies each.
Mistrust with the right and the left
When asked if they opted for the right or the left for the Provincial Council, Rodríguez confessed that they have “a problem of mistrust with both parties: some did not like us and did not treat us well” (alluding to his previous party, the PSPV) “and others asked us for 8 years in prison” (alluding to the PP, which was accused in the judicial process).
“It’s complicated”, the former provincial president admitted, who nevertheless specified: “you can’t spend your whole life licking your wounds; one day or another we have to turn the page, and perhaps with this positive ending for us it is also time to start turning the page, to talk to each other” and try to “reduce that lack of confidence”.
He does not intend to return to the Provincial Council
They are on the “path of, in quotes, reconciliation with some and with others”, explained Rodríguez, who has admitted that they have already spoken with the socialists Toni Gaspar and Carlos Fernández Bielsa and have exchanged messages with Vicente Mompó (PP), but They want to wait for the minutes of the Ontinyent deputy to be “clear” to move forward.
Yes, he has clarified that he personally does not intend to return to the Provincial Council: “I am very clear that there are stages of your life that close, which also in this case close painfully even though in the end they have had a happy ending.” “I have already traveled my path, I had the honor of being the president of the Provincial Council for 3 years and it would have been very nice to have been at least 4 and come out normal from there.”
Rodríguez has stressed that in the negotiation of the new Provincial Council they will lean towards those who believe that they will represent the “municipalist sensitivity” of this party and, “above all, the interests” of the region in which they are rooted, the Vall d’ Albaida.
Recognize that you did not measure up to them
Rodríguez has affirmed that he is glad that the general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE, Ximo Puig, has congratulated him on the sentence, and in fact after a message and a call they have agreed that they will speak, and that the former secretary has also congratulated him of Organization of the PSOE José Luis Ábalos.
He has insisted that he does not miss the political part, because after five years of the “ordeal” that have passed there is no longer “any type of restitution”, but the human part is: saying “perhaps we were wrong, perhaps we were excessively hard or maybe we don’t let you explain yourself”.
For this reason, he has considered that “a good way to begin to regain trust in people” is to recognize that they have not “lived up” to what was expected “from a simply human point of view”.
poetic justice
“Many bad things happened to us in a very short time, so because now two good things happen to us in a row, nothing happens either,” Rodríguez points out about the acquittal and the fact of having the key to the Provincial Council: “It is a little bit of Justice poetic, sometimes even ex-partners from the Socialist Party tell me”.
He affirms that he is left with the question of how much money the “excessive” police device cost to arrest them – the cost “in incalculable pain”, he assures – and if the arrests and searches were really necessary to find out some contracts that were “hanging in the web”, which led people to think “there will be something else”.
After having experienced “a civil death”, in which from one day to the next he went from being “honorable” to “suspected criminal”, and ending a “nightmare” that has caused “immense pain” to his family and of which in part it saved them “mentally and emotionally” to maintain the mayor’s office of Ontinyent, he sees positive that the sentence was known after the elections, since they always asked that justice not interfere in politics.