Primary elections on February 25, extraordinary congress on March 23 and 24, after Fallas. PSPV already has a schedule for its internal renewal process. The manager of the Valencian socialists voted first to elect the general secretary instead Ximo Puig It will be the last weekend of February, and the extraordinary congress that approves this and elects the new administration will be held a month later, on March 23 and 24.
As Cadena SER proceeds and as this newspaper confirms, the Valencian socialists will have two months to complete the entire process of internal renewal. The first main course of this will take place on February 25, with the celebration of the first round of primaries (if there is more than one candidate, as everything indicates that this will happen). The second round will be held the following week, on March 3, if no candidate receives more than 50 percent support in the first vote.
The schedule proposed by the regional leadership still needs the approval of the National Committee, which is scheduled to meet this week. Provided that there is more than one candidate for the leadership of the party, the period until the first step of the elections will start with five crazy weeks. For now, the state leaders of Valencia and Alicante, Carlos Fernandez Bielsa And Alejandro Soler and Minister of Science, Diana Morant, They seem almost safe options to compete for this position.
The fact that the primaries were also held on the weekend following the Galician elections, called February 18, is an element that may have affected the socialists’ choice of the first round voting date. The succession of the holiday dates in March also left its mark on the calendar. La Magdalena starts in the first week of March and the following week is Fallas. Also, the weekend of March 30th is Easter. In fact, the closing day of the congress, March 24, is Palm Sunday.