PSOE Organizing Secretary and party number three Santos Cerdán, ruled out the possibility that poet Luis Garcia Montero’s photo. be a PSOE candidate for Madrid City Council publicly rejecting such “formations”.
“Man, please. events none“On his arrival at the Federal Political Council, speaking to the press, he asked about the pools that had placed Luis García Montero as a possible PSOE candidate for the Madrid City Council.
An option that, despite other socialist sources, the PSOE Organizing Secretary definitively ruled out in his reply. neither confirm nor reject They insist on this possibility and that the candidate they bet on must be an ambitious person who has social prestige, has won the love of the people and the party. The same sources also do not exclude the option of becoming a minister in the Pedro Sánchez Government, but they state that: candidate has already been selectedbut they will take time to convey it.
For his part, PSOE-M general secretary Juan Lobato said on Friday. profile “known and recognizable” The fact that the vast majority of Madrid society is a candidate for the Madrid City Council and is open to not having to “be a politician by profession”.
PSOE decided delaying the start of the primary process Especially in the Madrid capital by November, in order to have more room to choose a strong candidate to stand up to the PP’s current mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, in the 2023 municipal elections.
General deadline set for submitting applications Between 19 and 20 September, with the idea of a first vote by the militant on October 9, but the PSOE gave the option to delay the dates by requesting it from the Federal Executive before September 10. With the requested delay, the presentation of the names of PSOE candidates running for Madrid City Council was delayed from September 19 and 20 to November 21 and 22, two months later than originally planned. This also means a two-month delay in the first round of voting among applicants who have gathered enough approvals, specifically from 9 October to 11 December.
while in the capital silence and doubts The general trend is that, in the case of the Community of Madrid, the PSOE candidate in the regional elections will be firmly accepted as the leader of the Madrid Socialists, Juan Lobato.