He The hatchet has been raised in the PSOE of Cordoba and Andalusia. The beginning of the process of election of delegates (21 Cordobans) for the federal congress of November 29 in Seville demands that the candidates be presented next week in all the provinces, a scenario chosen in this case to measure the first forces between the party in power and the critics of the South. Tempers are on edge.
And for now, it seems that the dust is significant before Juan Espadas, regional secretary, and Rafi Crespin, his counterpart in Cordoba. A significant number of mayors and spokespersons The PSOE representatives of the province of Cordoba have asked Crespín that this list of delegates for the next conclave “be a consensual candidacy with the incorporation of municipal councilors,” according to a note to which ABC had access.
As ABC learned from sources of complete solvency, the management of Córdoba has already made a first integration offer which has not convinced these mayors at all. A low number of positions among the 21 on the list of delegates to which they have responded with a firm note so far. It The mayor of Iznajar, Lope Ruiz, As the spokesperson for this group of mayors and spokesperson, he has transmitted their demands to Rafi Crespín. It is therefore not excluded that, in the absence of consensus, an alternative list could emerge.
For Lope Ruiz, it is “essential” that mayors and spokespeople, who are those who hold power, the essence of institutional power in the province, to have a voice in the federal congress where the future of the PSOE will be debated. “We believe that It’s time for municipalities to speak out and topics as relevant as local financinglong-standing, and which for municipalities is of vital importance in order to be able to provide services to citizens, define competences and legislate in favour of modernisation, the elimination of bureaucracy, in favour of local autonomy postponed until now”.
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A requirement that categorically clashes with Pedro Sánchez’s interest in satisfying the Catalan claims with an economic concert. These are proposals, they indicate, “that must be included in the framework of presentation of this federal congress.” Behind closed doors, the unease about this issue is very strong, but this group is aware that it will be difficult to tip the balance at the federal conclave. Not like this since Despeñaperros.
The mayor of Iznájar, joined by the main members still retained by the PSOE and others overthrown in the elections by the PP, wanted to clarify that “the mayors and municipal spokesmen They support the party’s secretary general, Pedro Sánchez, and its continuation”, but they disagree with the management that the PSOE-A leadership has carried out in Andalusia, the terrain where it will lead the battle.
“This led us to the absolute uselessnesswith the loss of most of the institutional power, a direction that had the support of the secretary general of the PSOE Cordobés, Rafi Crespín,” they stressed.
A management which was characterized “by a unprecedented leadership crisis in the Andalusian PSOE, in which we can’t hear it and there is no majority of socialist mayors. No work has been done to to unite different sensibilities Andalusian socialists, creating a division within the party and leading it to lose all the electoral processes called in Andalusia,” they stressed. These “sensitivities” could concern both the “Susanists” and Pedro Sánchez’s own supporters in his phase of “exile” from the party, tired of the events.
It is because of these circumstances that mayors and spokespeople believe that the time has come to the voice of the communes is heard and their requests are taken into account. The PSOE maintains town halls in Cordoba such as La Carlota, Montilla, Montoro, Peñarroya, Baena or Villanueva de Córdoba. On the other hand, the socialists lost traditional strongholds in Córdoba such as Palma del Río, Puente Genil, Lucena, Encinas Reales, Rute or the Provincial Council itself, among others.
