The Executive of PSOE has regretted that the PSOE of Castile and Leónled by Luis Tudanca, “has not had the will” to agree the primary calendar with Ferraz after this Thursday the Autonomous Committee decided to call them before the Federal Congress.
The Autonomous Committee of the PSOE of Castilla y León gave the green light to a calendar congressional with primaries on November 9 – before the Federal Congress of Seville, which will take place between November 29 and December 1 – and an Autonomous Congress already in January 2025. Ferraz sources have confirmed that the party leadership is “analyzing the decision made“to “ensure the guarantees of the militants and the application of the regulations and statutes of the party.”
The federal leadership of the PSOE understands that now is the time “for ideas” for the Federal Congress, and not from the primaries to elect leaders, which in the case of the PSOE-CyL would be held on November 9. From Ferraz they emphasize that it is time for “the proposals” for the congress of Sevillewhere the militancy will approve the framework report (the document on socialist policies for the coming years) and remember that the regional congresses must be held within three months after the federal one, according to the party’s statutes.
“We regret that there has been no willingness to agree on a calendar with the federal leadership, as was proposed to all the federations, to focus now on the great debate of ideas of the PSOE project, facing the Seville Congress,” says Ferraz, who confirms that the Castilian-Leonese federation has so far been the only one to make this decision. Along these lines, they remember that the secretary general, Pedro Sanchez“asked the party to go ahead of the government and lead.” “That is the political orientation given by Ferraz and that proposed by the Secretary General in the last Federal Committee. That was the proposed calendar. It is the time for the debate of ideas,” they clarify.
The PSOE-CyL defends its calendar
The leadership of the PSOE of Castilla y León defends the calendar of primaries on November 9 and of the Autonomous Congress, scheduled for January 25 and 26, 2025, and has denied that this process contravenes what is established in the Statutes of the party, as stated yesterday by the member of the Federal Executive, Javier Izquierdo, and the leader of the PSOE of León, Javier Cendón.
In statements, sources from the autonomous leadership have trusted that the federal leadership will not interfere in this process, since it lacks legal tools to do so, understanding that it is the Autonomous Committee, meeting this Thursday in Valladolidto which It is up to you to convene the Autonomous Congress and settle the calendar.
In the autonomous leadership they propose that legally “it is not possible” for Ferraz to revoke a vote like this Thursday, in which 105 members of the Committee voted in favor of the calendar against 14 votes against and 11 abstentionswhile they understand that democratically it would be “an unprecedented outrage.”
The main argument of the PSOE of Castilla y León to speed up the deadlines of the Autonomous Congress is that they fear that the president of the Board, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (PP), can advance the elections in this Community, where he now governs alone after the break with Voxprecisely to catch the PSOE on the wrong foot and in the middle of the pre-congressional process.
These same sources of the autonomous leadership do not see that there is any obstacle to the candidatures that the militants authorized to do so may present themselves and, in fact, they highlight that the current secretary general, Luis Tudanca, He has not commented on his candidacysince he will wait to make that decision at the moment when they can present themselves.
If there is only one candidate primaries would not take placeso on October 28, the date set for the proclamation of candidacies, he would be elected provisionally. The same sources from the regional leadership emphasize that it would not be until the end of January, with the Congress planned in Palenciawhen that nomination would be made official, after the Federal Congress.
