Madrid (EFE).- The Federal Committee of the PSOE has ratified this Saturday “by show of hands and unanimously” the electoral lists of 23J, despite the anger shown in the previous hours due to changes introduced by the federal leadership of the PSOE in Castilla -La Mancha, Castilla y León and the Valencian Community, as well as in Aragón, where there has been a block resignation of the candidates.
This has been confirmed by sources from Ferraz at the end of the meeting held at the party’s federal headquarters, in which the lists for Congress and the Senate have been ratified, except in Catalonia, where tomorrow the PSC National Council will approve the of that autonomy, which will be headed by Barcelona by the president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet.
Iceta and Raquel Sánchez, in Catalonia
In addition, the Minister of Culture, Miquel Iceta, and the head of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, will go to number two and three, respectively, on this list, as confirmed to EFE by socialist sources.
These lists, in which almost all the socialist government ministers are candidates for 23J, also include losers from the regional and municipal elections, such as Francina Armengol (Balearic Islands) and Concha Andreu (La Rioja), as well as old-fashioned socialists guard as Carmen Calvo and José Luis Ábalos
In addition to receiving the approval of the Federal Committee today, yesterday the Federal List Commission of the PSOE (in which all the federations are represented) approved the candidacies with only one vote against, out of around thirty issued by this body.
Federal List Commission
It will be precisely the Federal Commission of Lists, once the resignations arrive, that designates the candidates that will replace the fifteen from Aragon who have shown their resignation en bloc, after Ferraz has modified the proposals of the provincial committees.
The new candidates will have to receive the support of the Federal Executive.
Important changes have been introduced in the Aragonese list, among which is the inclusion of the deputy in this legislature Susana Sumelzo, related to Pedro Sánchez, as number two for Zaragoza, behind the Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría.
Several of the candidates for Ávila, who are expected to make their decision in the next few hours, could also resign from running in the elections.
The anger in the Castilian-Leonese PSOE has been caused by the changes in the lists it had sent, with Javier Izquierdo heading the Senate for Valladolid and Manuel Arribas, one of the well-known participants in dinners with ‘Tito Berni’, to lead the list at Congress for Avila.
These changes move Sara Galván, who goes to number two in the Senate for Valladolid, and Yolanda Vázquez, to number two for the Congress for Ávila.
Among the Castilian-Manchego socialists, the malaise occurred after the Federal Committee’s proposal to replace the number one on the lists by the province of Toledo in Congress, the regional secretary of Organization, Sergio Gutiérrez, by the acting mayoress of Toledo, Milagros Tolón.
However, the change did not finally materialize and Tolón is number two, while Sergio Gutiérrez heads the candidacy.
In the Valencian Community, the PSPV lists underwent a new change after passing through the Federal Commission of Lists, which accepted several of the proposals put forward by the provincial directorates of Valencia and Alicante.
The Commission modified the proposals approved by the National Executive Commission of the PSPV-PSOE, whose meeting was chaired by the leader of the Valencian socialists, Ximo Puig, in which some of the names proposed by the provincial leaderships have already been changed.
Thus, the lists once again include the mayor of Paterna, Juan Antonio Sagredo, as number one in the Senate for Valencia instead of the regional secretary for Institutional Promotion, Alfred Boix.
In Alicante, the Commission of Lists has varied the proposal of the national committee of the PSPV to leave those proposed by the provincial committee with Alejandro Soler of number 1, Patricia Blanquer of 2 and Lázaro Azorín of 3 in its first three positions in Congress.