At the edge of 12 at night, the new general secretary of the PSOE of Andalusia, María Jesús Montero, made known the main names that will compose his executive. The new strong man of the Regional Directorate will be another Sevillian, the mayor of Dos Hermanas, Paco Rodríguez (55 years), who will occupy the Ministry of Organization, socialist sources reported. Montero and the councilor have known each other since ancient times and both agreed on the Youth Council of Andalusia.
The Deputy Secretary General will occupy by María Márquez, a 35 -year -old Huelva, and current spokesman for the deputy and deputy spokesman of the parliamentary group. Montero has chosen as president of the PSOE to which he was the Minister of the Environment and president of the Andalusian Parliament, Fuensanta Coves. During his mandate in the Board the former Andalusian president
The new vice -secretary general was born in San Juan del Puerto (Huelva) in 1990. It has always been considered one of the emerging figures of the party in Andalusia called to star in a generational relief that, initially, it was thought that it would be consummated at the beginning of the Last year when he left the Federal Executive, where he was a training secretary, to enter the executive of Juan Espadas. However, in these months his figure has been diluted, to a large extent, by the indefinition of swords itself when attributing functions in their teams. In the days prior to this Regional Márquez Committee has had a great weight, appearing before the media to inform about its development, and opening, this Saturday, the conclave.
Márquez, who is a psychologist by profession and that the VHS was put with the speeches of Felipe González who kept his parents, has developed his political career from the socialist youth, as who will be the secretary of Organization. Rodríguez assumed the position of mayor of Dos Hermanas in 2021, when his predecessor and mentor, Kiko Toscano, decided to leave his position, after 37 years governing in the Sevillian town. In 2023 he won the elections again with an absolute majority, becoming, the mayor of the most populous town that governs the PSOE in the community.
Although the socialist leader said that she wanted people with full dedication to take care of the party while she served as vice president and minister of Finance, Rodríguez, with her mayor’s position, does not meet those requirements.
Swell in the provinces
Montero began about four in the afternoon the negotiation with the provincial secretaries and other leaders of the composition of the regional executive to which he has been calling the Hotel de Granada where he stays, away from the Armilla Fairgrounds (Granada) in which The 15th Regional Congress is celebrated. What seemed like a quick and easy task has been complicated. As of Monday and next Tuesday, the deadline for presenting the candidates to the provincial secretariats is opened and there are many who, rather than looking at the regional management, seek refuge in their territories because it is a safer shuttle to aspire to go in Some electoral lists.
He has been complicated as the time to close the executive was approaching. While some highlighted the inexperience of the Sevillian leader in the thorny compounds, people of his team remembered that Montero has how praise In very complicated negotiations with its investiture partners, in addition to living to think if it was worth continuing in politics. He knows what an iron chair is.
On the eve of the Congress, many already predicted that the conclave would be “of the ancients”, dominated by the pulls to the many of the night to close until the last vocal. The general secretary has commissioned the conversations with the local leaders with whom she had been maintaining previous contacts for several days. Montero entered the Congress without revealing the name of the members of his trusted team, which are only of his harvest and that necessarily and will also become the hard nucleus that the electoral campaign will prepare. Although the elections are not until June 2016, 15 months remain.
While Montero received the local leaders, the delegates attended the agoras organized by the PSOE to fill the 15th congress in which the former president of the Andalusian Manuel Chaves, the president of the State Council, Carmen Calvo, and the ministers Luis, and the ministers Luis have participated, and the ministers Luis Planas and Isabel Rodríguez.
Although Montero had proposed not to talk about the provincial conclaves until the Congress ended this Sunday, knowledgeable sources of the negotiations assured that the Secretary General has tried to close the regional executive along with the passion that appeased the provincial fire.
The appropriate suitors to the provincial secretariats have taken advantage of the Regional Congress to tie the necessary guarantees in their provinces, and, flying over, were accusations of little ethical pressures to avoid leaks of votes in provinces with more than one candidate. This was the case of Jaén, where the Socialists govern in the Diputación, one of the most powerful tools to strengthen support.
The situation that worries the most in the PSOE is precisely that of this group. This province has never celebrated primary elections because its militants have always gone to one. The current general secretary, Paco Reyes, who has not repeated and sponsored as his substitute for the mayor of Arjona (5,374 inhabitants), Juan Latorre. But to the official candidate, who has been kicking Jaén for months. This, when announcing his candidacy, is out of the regional compounds since Montero needs 100% leaders dedicated to regional policy – he has claimed “full time” – because she does not have it since she must attend her responsibilities as the first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance.
The other conflict that most worries is that of Córdoba in which there are two candidates willing to plant battle to the provincial secretary, Rafi Crespín. “In Córdoba everything runs through groundwater until the pipes have exploded and the entire mud has emerged,” says a local leader of others internal battles. Córdoba is one of the Andalusian provinces where the PP is stronger and the least militants has the PSOE.
Also in Cádiz they venture primary. Its general secretary, Juan Carlos Ruiz-Boix, has the support of the Susanists. The division situation is repeated in Huelva and Almería, while in Malaga, deputy Josele Aguilar made up a sufficient majority to replace Dani Pérez.
But as is usually the case in the PSOE, the agreements approached or moved away at every hour, and what was definitive, after a while it was already broken. It is very likely that when the provincial congresses have just been held on the first weekend of April, the consensus has been imposed in most provinces despite the internal noise of these days.
Only Seville, who also directs the president of the Diputación, Javier Fernández de los Ríos, is saved from the battle. The Sevillian delegation is the one that has come with absolute tranquility to the conclave of the Andalusian socialists because it is the only one in which there will be no alternative candidacies. With the security granted by that calm, the PSOE of Seville had a single slogan for negotiations on the power quota in the executive of the new general secretary: “fleeing the ‘chauvinism’ of the quantitative.” The sources of the dome consulted have been insisting since Friday that they do not care to have many representatives in the regional direction, but these are in relevant positions. “Our debate goes to qualitative,” they stressed.
