Pedro Sanchez will convene the 41st Federal Congress of the PSOE in November to activate the renewal of the match. The socialist leadership will meet on Monday to convene the Federal Committee of September 7. The leader of the formation had until the fall of 2025. However, he decided to advance the date to arrive in the summer with all his territorial leaders renewed, as announced by ‘EFE’ and laSexta was able to confirm.
The intention is that the Federal Congress, the party’s highest decision-making body, will take place in Seville; The last one took place in Valencia from October 15 to 17, 2021, so the next one will be convened four years later, in October 2025. With this decision, Sánchez takes the initiative to mobilize the party from the beginning of the political year. , on the first working day of September, even before next Wednesday, September 4, she presents her projects and priorities for the new season in an event attended by a large group of representatives from all sectors of Spanish society.
This same Wednesday, in addition, the number two of the Government and the party, María Jesús Montero, will have to go to the Senatequoted by the majority of the PP, to explain during a monographic plenary session the tax agreement for Catalonia concluded with ERC. An agreement that allowed The socialists have regained the presidency of the Generalitat Catalan, but which has reopened disagreements in certain areas of the party.
The PSOE Executive of Aragon has formally positioned itself against the tax agreement for Catalonia and the leaders of other territories have also expressed their opposition to an agreement that, although Montero denies that it represents an economic agreement similar to the historic Basque and Navarrese agreements. ERC uses this term in its interpretation.
This issue will also be resolved at the federal congress scheduled for November. the situation in which the device is located in certain territorieslike Andalusia or Madrid, where the leadership of Juan Espadas and Juan Lobato, respectively, is being questioned. In the previous federal congress, the one held almost three years ago in Valencia, the new leadership team formed by Sánchez, characterized by the entry of several ministers, obtained 94.9% support.
This is the highest support that Sánchez has received as party leader.well above the 70.5% obtained in 2017, when the PSOE was going through a strong internal crisis, and also the 88.1% obtained in 2014 for the first elected executive. The 2021 federal congress in Valencia was the fortieth ordinary congress of the PSOE, in a list that has as its first the one held in 1888 in Barcelona and does not include those held in an extraordinary manner.
