During the second legislature of the Botànic, the three left-wing parties (PSPV, Compromís, and Unides Podem) reached a preliminary agreement with Ciudadanos to reform the Valencian electoral law of 1987. The four groups totaled 70 deputies (two more than the two-thirds necessary to modify a regulation protected by a reinforced majority). It was an ambitious proposal that not only lowered the electoral threshold from 5% regional to 3% of valid votes – it proposed the obligation to achieve this percentage in each of the three provincial constituencies as well as in the Valencian Community as a whole -. The reform also introduced important novelties such as the possibility for the elector to show their preference for up to three candidates from the same list, the obligation to hold debates on Valencian public television, or to increase by 5% the amount of the electoral subsidy for those candidacies chosen by primaries.

A 16-year-old boy died after being run over this Saturday in Castelldefels (Baix Llobregat) by a car that fled the scene, according to the Castelldefels Local Police.

It is hard to believe that, at this point and after years of mobilization by a large part of civil society – yesterday it was the Consell Valencià de Cultura – the Corts Valencianes have not been able to appoint the regional deputies responsible for defending in the Cortes Generales the…