Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez asked his former right-hand man in the party, José Luis Ábalos, for help in ensuring that the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, was elected leader of the Valencian Socialists. This is revealed in WhatsApp messages exchanged between the head of the national government and the former PSOE organizational secretary during January 2024, when Morant, the mayor of Mislata, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, and the deputy Alejandro Soler were vying for the leadership of the PSPV (Valencian Socialist Party). A conversation that has revealed the digital newspaper Vozpópuli and which occurred weeks before the Valencian politician was suspended from party membership and placed in the mixed group in Congress due to the disruption of the Koldo case