Vicent Marzà will continue as Minister of Education and will not finally opt to be the Catalan Ombudsman in the Cortes to replace Fran Ferri, who announced his resignation last December. A march that had opened the door to a possible crisis in the Consell, since the Minister of Education cherished the idea of making the leap to the Cortes in order to enhance his more political profile. This possible movement had generated turbulence both in Més (formerly Bloc) and in the Compromís coalition, but in the end the earthquake was contained. The permanent committee of Més Compromís agreed to it yesterday in a meeting held without prior notice to the press. Thus, he decided to propose Deputy Papi Robles, originally from Orihuela, as Ferri’s substitute, which implies not supporting Marzà’s plans. Although he has remained silent all these weeks (a silence that has fueled speculation about his departure), he will finally continue in the Government.
The party’s decision, once Marzà had manifested within the Government his willingness to move to a new position with more political than institutional weight, leaves the minister “touched”.
With a legislature that is already entering its final stretch, the formation bets on the deputy Papi Robles, akin to the current leadership of Més, like Marzà. Party sources explained that the decision is adopted to favor a territorial balance, since having opted for the deputy spokesperson Mónica Àlvaro from the more nationalist current Bloc i País, two of the three main positions of the formation (including the conselleries) they would have been in the hands of deputies from Castellón (she and Marzà) and that Valencia would have been left without high representation. The same sources recalled that Robles was the most voted deputy for Valencia in the last internal primaries.
The current pandemic situation and the restart of the school year in this context of the sixth wave would be the arguments that would have been put on the table in the direction of Més to keep Marzà in the ministry.
According to official sources, it has been the Minister of Education himself who has raised the possibility of not moving. However, the same sources admit that Marzà’s will was the receivership of the parliamentary group and that at another juncture it would have been so without major problems. Other voices in the management point out that Marzà has had to backtrack on his initial plan of leaving the ministry by not gathering a majority support in the Més executive.
This is the most important party in terms of members of the Compromís and to which Ferri belongs. Logic dictates that this formation is the one that maintains the receivership, but not all the coalition sees it that way. In fact, from the Poble Valencià Initiative (Mónica Oltra’s party) they insist that Aitana Mas, also a deputy spokesperson, is the natural replacement for this position. Más won the position for Alicante after winning in the primaries and served as two with Ferri. She is the one who participated in the syndics’ boards in his absence and knows parliamentary issues, they argue. And they add that it does not make sense that the position is not for one of the three deputies and that the decision is made around quotas.
Thus, everything will be decided at the meeting of the parliamentary group on the next day 11. Technically it is up to the deputies of Compromís to choose their spokesperson. Més has a majority, but an agreement other than unanimously would leave the coalition touched. In any case, the entire management of Ferri’s replacement has opened an internal crisis within Més, since expectations had been generated about the replacement of a Marzà that finally does not go away.
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