The candidacy led by the mayor of Castro Urdiales, Susana Herrán, won the internal vote organized this Sunday among activists and will lead the Cantabrian delegation to the Federal Congress of the PSOE which will be held in Seville at the end of November to re-elect Pedro Sánchez. The critical list of the current party leadership in the autonomous community won a narrow victory of 10 delegates to 9 against the candidacy of the current secretary general, Pablo Zuloaga, in what was seen as a first round of future planned primaries . for spring.
Thus, the nearly 3,000 PSOE activists in Cantabria were called to the polls this Sunday in an organic process that seemed inconsequential, since it was simply a question of choosing the 19 delegates who will attend the Federal Congress of Seville during which Pedro Sánchez will vote en masse. Bath as the only candidate, but this in the autonomous community was presented as a first round of an internal conflict brewed by the control of the party, promoted by a critical sector grouped around the national deputy Pedro Casares, who did not even participate in the first person
Depending on the final results of this vote in which approximately 75% of activists participated, different conclusions will now be drawn in the face of a new head-on confrontation next spring, during the primaries. which the General Secretariat of the PSOE of Cantabria will be put at stake, this is why socialist activism has lived in recent weeks between tension and amazement due to the level of aggressiveness that was unleashed in a call more symbolic than real, but which will have short-term effects.
The activists had to choose between two lists: the one led by Pablo Zuloaga himself with his usual team and the one led by the mayor of Castro Urdiales, Susana Herrán, as a person brought by Pedro Casares, who ensured his presence in Seville as a member of the outgoing Federal Executive. Without the possibility of negotiation or integration, both sides interpreted this meeting with the ballot boxes as a first attempt at battle to measure their strength and count on support.
All this provoked an intense campaign even to gather support, with individual calls to activists, interviews, statements to the media and an externalization of the internal conflict towards public opinion which was criticized even by Ferraz, who had to intervene with a new message. statement in which he denied “neither guardianship nor interference” in favor of one of the candidates presented to the organic process.
