Pedro Sánchez continues his triumphant march to be re-elected without opposition secretary general of the PSOE in Federal Congress that the party will celebrate in Seville on the last weekend of November. The president of the government, who could continue to lead the socialists until 2028, fourteen years after taking office for the first time in 2014, presented this Monday the support for his candidacy, the only one presented. And he did it by exceeding the maximum authorized by the socialist statutes, i.e. 6% of the census of members.
However, although it had no impact on the process, it did not receive the signature of two illustrious activists, such as Emiliano García-Page and Javier Lambán. The president of the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha and regional secretary general of this community and the leader of the socialists of Aragon and former president of this community, now also a senator, are the only territorial leaders who have not given their downstream. to the head of the Executive. Something that the rest of his organic counterparts did without exception, including those who recently, and especially following the concert for Catalonia engaged in the ERC, had joined the critical front, notably the secretary general of the PSOE of Extremadura, Miguel Ángel. Gallardo.
Sources close to García-Page downplay this fact, recalling that as regional secretary general, the Castilian-Manchego president has never supported a secretary general, and that he did not do so three years ago , on the occasion of the XLth Federal Congress, organized on this occasion in Valencia. From the PSOE of Aragon, on the other hand, they limit themselves to confirming that their leader did not sign the amendment, “without further explanation”, he adds.
From Ferraz, an official party communication highlights the broad support obtained by Sánchez, which “reflects the continuity in the leadership of the party, laying the foundations of the socialist strategy in the face of future challenges.”
The primary system
Since the system was changed in 2014, the year Sánchez beat Edward Madina to succeed the former secretary general of the PSOE, the former vice-president of the government Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, who died in 2019, all activists can vote in the primaries for their secretary general, among the candidates who have successfully passed the selection approval, before the celebration of the Congress. And once at the conclave, it is ratified and are elected both the new Federal Executive (the leadership or leadership of the party) and the Federal Committee, the supreme body between the congresses of the formation, where all the territorial leaders are of the party. represented.
For now, the primaries have only taken place on this occasion and three years later, in 2017, when Sánchez returned after his resignation in 2016, defeating the president of the Junta de Andalucía in the internal process, Susana Diaz.
As provided for in the statutes of the formation, the congresses of the autonomous federations will be held after the Federal Congress, within a maximum period of ninety days, which will bring these processes until January or February 2025, except in places where this has already been resolved the relief, case of the Valencian Community, where the minister. Diane Morant He replaced the former president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, or of Extremadura, where said Gallardo won the primaries that settled the succession of the former president of the government of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara.
Faced with this process of territorial renewal, the unknowns continue to focus on Aragon, where Lambán will not continue and targets the government spokesperson, Pilar Alegriaas successor. Also in Andalusia and Madrid, where it is not certain that neither Juan Espadas, currently also spokesperson for the PSOE in the Senate, nor Juan Lobato will remain in their position.
