Santos Cerdán from Pamplona will remain secretary of the party’s organization, Patxi López will continue in this direction and Sánchez will retain the hard core of the party.
Aroa Jilete from Alava and Nora Abete from Biscay are two of the new additions to the new PSOE Executive, which grows to 54 members, with 16 new faces.
In addition to Jilete and Abete, the Basque socialists have the former Lehendakari and spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, in the leadership of the PSOE,
On the other hand, Idoia Mendia, Miguel Ángel Morales, Mikel Durán, Begoña Gil and Maider Etxebarria will be part of the Federal Committee based on a mandate from the Federal Congress, and the Pamplona native Santos Cerdan He remains secretary of the Organization.
The President of the Government of Navarre and General Secretary of the Navarrese Socialist Federation, María Chivite, defended this Sunday that its autonomy is “being strengthened” by Congress, and the General Secretary of the PSE-EE, Eneko Andueza, has expressed his satisfaction on which verifies that the Basque Socialists have increased their presence in the PSOE executive.
The Victorian Aroa Jilete (1992), who will take responsibility for the Minister of Tourism, is a Basque parliamentarian, after leading the Socialist candidacy in the 2023 elections.
She was Director of Tourism and Hospitality in the Basque Government (2023-2024), lawyer at the General Assemblies of Álava (2019-2020) and councilor in the Alava Municipal Council of Elciego (2019-2023).
For his part, Nora Abetethe future Minister of Trade and Consumer Affairs, was born in Bilbao in 1985. Since 2023, she has been the second deputy mayor and councilor for Mobility and Sustainability of the Bilbao City Council. From 2016 to 2019 she held the position of director of Kontsumobide-Basque Consumer Institute.
Follow the hard core
The President of the Spanish Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, has decided to retain the main leaders of his hard core in the new Socialist Executive Commission that he approved on Saturday at the 41st Federal Congress of the PSOE, which gets bigger. the number ex officio amounts to 49 members and includes almost twenty new names.
Sánchez retains María Jesús Montero as Deputy Secretary General and Santos Cerdán as Secretary of the Organization, and a large part of the ministers such as Félix Bolaños, Óscar Puente, Pilar Alegría, Elma Saiz, Jordi Hereu and Isabel Rodríguez. Of the members of the Council of Ministers, the head of Equality, Ana Redondo, and the Minister of Science, Diana Morant, the new general secretary of the PSOE in the Valencian Community, will not continue. Teresa Ribera, who will be appointed the new executive vice-president of the European Commission, is also not in the new leadership.
The Executive chosen by Sánchez has 17 new names. The government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, will become the new Minister of Equality, and the deputy for Alicante, Alejandro Soler Mur, Secretary of Municipal Policy.
Sánchez creates a new secretary of the municipality of Litoral, in which he places Anabel Mateos. The new Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities will be Javier Alfonso Cendón, deputy of León and very close to Cerdán.
Enma López, councilor at the Madrid City Council and member of the organizing committee of the Federal Congress, will become the new Secretary of Economic Policy and Digital Transformation.
Moreover, Ana Mª is the new Minister of Education and Vocational Training. Fernández Rodríguez, from the PSOE of Badajoz, while the Secretary of Democratic Action and Transparency will be Borja Cabezón, also from the PSOE-M. Likewise, Manuela Berges, mayor of Pedrola (Zaragoza), will occupy the field of social policy, seniors and social movements.
Sánchez has also chosen Kilian Sánchez, senator for Tenerife, as the new Minister of Health and Consumption, and César Mogo, senator for Lugo, secretary of the PSOE Exterior. Finally, Eugenia Gómez (Cantabria), the former mayor of Toledo, Milagros Tolón, the mayor of Vall d’Uixó, Tania Baños, the mayor of Cártama (Málaga), Jorge Gallardo and María Soledad Sánchez Jódar join as new members.
On the contrary: Marisol Mateos, Idoia Mendia, Patricia Blanquer, Pedro Casares, Luz Martínez Seijo, María Nieves Ramírez, Amparo Marco Gual, Carolina Darias and Pilar Cancela are leaving the leadership of the PSOE.
Source: EITB
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