Alternative candidacies of Lambán’s critics for the election of delegates to the PSOE Federal Congress They were left in borage water. Neither Paz Jiménez nor José María Orús obtained enough support to force a vote and squeeze in among the Aragonese who will represent the territory at the meeting in which Pedro Sánchez will be re-elected secretary general of the party.
In Zaragoza, they should have received 518 supporters. Thus, the only list that will advance is that of the secretary general of the PSOE of Zaragoza, Juan Antonio Sánchez Quero. The socialist leader has already announced that he will demand in Seville “fair and equal” funding to avoid “discriminating against certain communities compared to others”.
Paz Jiménez got 314 mentions in total, just over 200 and 207 online. With his alternative candidacy, he was looking for find the voice of activism and once again enthuse the party to recover the government of Aragon and continue into Moncloa. Already when he took the plunge, he recognized that the task was not easy, because the sector he represented lacked structure and was made up almost exclusively of grassroots activists.
“We had no organic or institutional support. Who knows where we would have been with two more weeks. We succeeded in mobilizing activists. In the short time we have, we have achieved some very interesting figures,” he said after knowing the result.
These days they use telephone and email a lot. “The only thing we had was the emails of the groups. But some leaders did not even distribute them. I believe, in any case, that a large part of the activism has been mobilized and that those who supported us are happy to have had the opportunity to help this movement a little and that there are more participation,” he added.
Getting the 518 wasn’t a guarantee either, because if they had done so, both lists would have had to be put to the vote. “The list having obtained the most votes will be allocated half plus one of the delegates and the remaining 14 will be distributed proportionally to the number of votes among those who have reached 20%,” explained Sánchez Quero at the time.
Despite the result, Jiménez assured that he was available to speak with Sánchez Quero and present his proposals to make “a bigger party.”
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