Logroño, (EFE) He will collect his act of autonomous deputy.
This has been agreed by the Executive Committee of the PSOE of La Rioja, meeting this Wednesday to approve their lists to the Senate and the Congress of Deputies, which will be headed, in the latter case, by the current acting mayor of Calahorra, Elisa Garrido.
Andreu will not be able to revalidate her position as president of the regional government after the elections on May 28, in which the PP has achieved an absolute majority in the La Rioja Parliament.
Andreu has appeared before the media after the committee meeting and has admitted that she herself has made the proposal for the lists, although after consulting with different general secretaries of local PSOE groups from La Rioja.
Thus, the list for Congress will be headed by the still acting mayor of Calahorra, Elisa Garrido, who will be accompanied by the former spokesman for the Socialist Group in the regional Parliament, Raúl Díaz, as number two; the general director of Equality in functions, Emilia Fernández, as third; and the acting Director General of Sports, Eloy Madorrán, as fourth.
The candidacy for the Senate includes Concha Andreu as number one, the current senator Emilio Montalvo in second place and the socialist candidate for mayor of Lardero, Noelia Pastor, in three.
The acting La Rioja president expressly thanked the work done this legislature by the national deputy Raquel Pedraja and by senator María Victoria de Pablo, who are not on the lists of July 23.
Neither does Juan Cuatrecasas, who until now has been a national deputy, of whom Andreu has highlighted his “committed” work on the abuse of minors within the Catholic Church.
Now he has formed some lists with “a group of people with a great capacity for work and without leading roles of any kind”, with whom “the priority is to give everything by July 23, as we already did for the May 28 elections. ”.
“We are going to go out with all the strength in the world to get the best results in the general elections, which will be good results for La Rioja” because “of course there can be a left-wing government” as of July 24.
To questions from journalists, he stressed that going on the Senate lists is not taken as a “revenge” for the electoral defeat on May 28, “for which I am the most responsible”, “but now what It’s time to work to get the best results on July 23”.
It has not been decided if he will collect the act of regional deputy
Andreu has insisted that “it is not decided” if he will collect his regional deputy act on June 22, when the regional Parliament will be constituted, “because it depends on many factors”, but “as long as I am general secretary of the PSOE of La Rioja I have to have a presence in the community and also in the territorial chamber that is the Senate”.
He has specified that in the next few days he will analyze with “the Socialist Group that remains” if he will collect the minutes “or it is not worth it” or “if I will do it for the entire legislature or until a specific day”, but “we have until the day 22 to see it”.