The former vice president returns with a speech against the system and the oligarchies
Five months after her resignation, Mónica Oltra He has returned to a public event. He has done it as a protagonist, speaking of inequalities, charging against the oligarchies and before his own, those closest to him. Among these, his successor, Aitana More, attentive in the second row and receiving direct mentions. “Vice President, thank you very much for joining me in this act,” Oltra told her at the beginning.
Mas has been the most outstanding position of Compromís in an event in which the absences have shone. No one beyond Initiative charges, such as the co-spokesman of the party of which Oltra is a part, Alberto Ibanez, and senior officials of the ministry directed by the former vice president. The always abstract political closeness to which she was the leader of the Valencian coalition until June has been able to be defined in a single glance at the room.
Loud applause from those present preceded his speech, a reception that moved Oltra. The former leader of Compromís has chosen Ca Revolta, a reference space for the Valencian left of which she is a member, for her return. The room has been full with around a hundred people and although she has played at home, she has had the reproach about her management in the ministry. “I have the same problems as in 2011,” a social worker from the public criticized him. “The figures deny it,” Oltra replied.
He has reached there on foot, together with his irreducible core: the aforementioned Ibáñez, who was his chief of staff, Michael Real, and the director general of Children, Rosa Molero. Hugs, kisses and affection before sitting down and starting to talk. Already before the microphones and the public present, Oltra has shown that she is still in top form despite the five-month inactivity in which she has been away from any public spotlight. And that she has spoken of her political stage in the past: “When I was active in partisan politics…“, has said.
Barely two open pages of a half-page notebook have served him to spin a direct, close half-hour speech, between personal anecdotes, touches of humor, vindication of his management and criticism of capitalism, the oligarchy, the Ibex 35… His speech has had an impact on those who “truly steal with a white glove”, that “capitalism kills” or that inequalities exist “because they are necessary for the oligarchy to continue being an oligarchy”.
And he has even sent veiled messages to his PSPV partners. For example, in the expansion of the Port of Valencia, topical after the latest report endorsing its reform by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, in the hands of the socialists. “In the expansion of the Port, which has come to my mind like this, we are going to throw concrete, a lot of concrete, a lot of concrete, and what is that for? What is going to improve the lives of the people who live here?”, he has voiced.