The PSOE has begun the second phase to reactivate the socialists and prepare them for the next electoral cycle. The main reason for the Federal Congress of Seville was to bring forward the renewal of territorial leadership by one year and prepare as soon as possible for the general, regional and municipal elections of 2027, with the prelude to the elections in Castilla y León and Andalusia and the temptation they could have. some PP barons who depend on Vox to press the electoral button and call the polls. “At the Seville Congress I said that the PSOE is a party of winners, capable of transferring utopias to the Official State Gazette. Therefore, what we have to do is win. Win to be able. Power to govern. And govern to move forward. And the more socialist town councils we have in 2027, the more autonomous governments we have and a socialist Government of Spain, the more intense and faster advances we can achieve for the benefit of the social majority of our country. That is the mandate that we have from the Congress of Seville and it is what we have to make a reality in 2027,” said the President of the Government in Avilés during the opening of the 34th Congress of the Asturian Socialist Federation (FSA). “Our initials represent what we are, the Asturian Socialist Family. Pedro, you know that you are part of this family. “Asturias never fails, it counts on us to continue leading the transformation that Spain needs,” The president of the Principality, Adrián Barbón, received him. Sánchez congratulated him precisely for the “ambitious and positive” motto chosen for the regional congress: “Asturias wins.”
The leader of the PSOE will be deployed until the end of March every weekend in the regional congresses of each of the socialist federations of Spain with an agenda saturated with conclaves in which the main party of the Government coalition will update the regional leaderships in at least six autonomies. The landing of heavyweights from the Executive after the Seville Congress began, following the model put into practice in Catalonia with Salvador Illa after being the Minister of Health in the pandemic, it will be completed over the next two months. This Friday the opponent has withdrawn from becoming the general secretary of the largest federation of the PSOE. And in the Valencian Community, the Minister of Science, Diana Morant, was Ferraz and La Moncloa’s choice almost a year ago to succeed Ximo Puig.
One of the consequences of all those relays is that they will instantly reduce internal noise. Both in form and substance. Some words that were interpreted as a message addressed to critical barons, especially after the fire that sparked special financing for Catalonia in the summer. Emiliano García-Page will remain the discordant reference for the pacts with the independence movement after the decisions of and not to stand for re-election as general secretaries in Castilla y León and Aragón. It is taken for granted, the question is by how much margin it will prevail. The shift in the discourse has already been noticed in Madrid without López having completed a month in office after the resignation of Juan Lobato: the Minister of Digital Transition and Public Function does not he goes about with subtleties with Isabel Diaz Ayuso
“If we lower the noise and pay attention to the data, Asturias and Spain are experiencing one of their best moments in history in economic growth and employment, in social and territorial cohesion, in coexistence and in international projection, so let us be clear that the better If it goes to Spain, the PP and Vox will make more noise. During these years, we are going to take Asturias and Spain to their best version,” Sánchez stated. After the regional congresses have kicked off in one of the strongholds of the PSOE, Sánchez will speak this Saturday in Toledo at the 13th Congress of the PSOE of Castilla-La Mancha, where he will share the stage with García-Page, the oldest socialist baron (he has been in position since 2012) and the only one with an absolute majority. Sánchez’s pilgrimage in the first of his ten weekends of territorial congresses will close on Sunday in Plasencia, where Miguel Ángel Gallardo will celebrate his re-election at the 15th Regional Congress of the PSOE of Extremadura to the vice president of the Provincial Council of Cáceres, Esther Gutiérrez (36.12%). In March of last year Gallardo was elected successor to Guillermo Fernández Vara
The tidal wave with Junts, after Carles Puigdemont’s announcement and demanding an urgent meeting with a verifier in Switzerland – to which Sánchez has not made any reference in his speech – has not changed Ferraz’s plans: Santos Cerdán, the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE and in charge of negotiations with the neoconvergents, has not changed his agenda and will attend the three regional congresses this weekend. The next one is much overloaded, with only the Canary Islands congress on the grid, a week before those of the Valencian Community and Madrid. Those of Andalusia and Castilla y León will also be in unison at the end of that month. The consecration of Alegría, if the forecasts are met, will arrive in mid-March. Once the first issues have been resolved, it will be the turn of the renewal of the provincial secretaries and finally of the municipal leaders. When summer arrives, the PSOE will have renovated its entire territorial structure.
