Francina Armengol’s PSOE ship in the Balearic Islands is on the run: four candidates are refusing to replace a deputy, in particular Silvia Cano who last Tuesday, and to everyone’s surprise, announced her resignation and gave up her status as deputy to devote herself to teaching.
Faced with this scenario, the party leadership, whose internal threads are managed from Madrid by the socialist president of the Congress, has begun to question in order of position the different candidates on the electoral list for the elections to the Balearic Parliament in May 2023.
If on Tuesday socialist sources already announced that the first on the short list of possible replacements for Cano was Pilar Sanso, but that they did not know “whether or not she would want to take the seat” or whether it would be necessary to present the list when the time came and the candidate consulted, The answer was to let the next one happen..
The next one was Xavier Pascuetso it was Lorraine Olivier And Elie Gallardo who have communicated, one after the other, that they are renouncing, with different excuses, to take possession of the minutes left vacant by the deputy of Calviá in the Balearic Chamber. A refusal to join the parliamentary group more than surprising, given that there are three years left in Parliament and that the PSIB-PSOE is on the eve of a regional congress that will be held after the PSOE federal congress next November.
She was to be the 17th candidate in the candidacy led by Armengol in the regional elections of May 2023, Therese Suarez, accept the challenge and join a parliamentary group where you already know what It will have a role between residual and zero.
The absence of any trace of internal renewal in a PSOE of the Balearic Islands that is preparing to renew for another four years the current internal regional structure of the party with Armengol at the head of Negueruela, Cosme Bonet, Mercedes Garrido or Marc Pons at the top of the command charts, this means that outside of this hard core, the reluctance to join the project to occupy a secondary role is at its maximum.
The new deputy Suárez has a more social than political profile. In fact, the socialist ranks highlight his defense of the rights of the people and his supposed “great experience in social management, essential at a time when the right and the extreme right threaten the social advances of the country.”
Born in Palma in 1964, she holds a degree in Psychology and an MBA in Social Entrepreneurship. Currently, she is Secretary for Social Rights and LGTBI of the PSIB.
He has experience in public management. She was director of the Majorcan Institute of Social Affairs (IMAS) between 2007 and 2011, secretary general of the Ministry of the Presidency between 2015 and 2019 and island advisor to the Presidency of the Consell de Mallorca between 2019 and 2021.
According to the socialists, he is joining the plenary session of Parliament to bring his experience and his connection with the social fabric of the Islands and to oppose “the setbacks caused by the Prohens government”, as the socialist party points out.
The Socialist Parliamentary Group finally thanked Silvia Cano for her work, dedication and commitment over her years of dedication.
