Miguel Ángel Gallardo will be the third Secretary General of the PSOE of Extremadura. President of the Provincial Council of Badajoz for the last two terms and mayor of Villanueva de la Serena (population 25,750), she defeated the other candidate, Lara Garlito, with 56.2% of the vote, compared to a support of 42.8% , which the President of Cáceres received and Vice President of the Autonomous Assembly has received. Gallardo, who has been a council member with an absolute majority since 2003, will be the third leader of the Socialists in the Extremadura Federation, after Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra and Guillermo Fernández Vara.
The winner was voted the most in important cities such as Badajoz (233 votes, compared to 178 for Garlito) and also in his city, where he had 221 yes votes and only 6 no votes. In Mérida or Almendralejo he won with 70% of the vote. Gallardo thanked the support that the Militancy had given him and won by more than 13 points against Garlito. “Until this evening there were two different models, but from today we are all the PSOE of Extremadura,” he explained, stressing that from now on his goal will be to regain the trust of the people of Extremadura and to recapture the Junta of Extremadura . . “From today I have a big backpack, which is to lead the PSOE of Extremadura and for that I will do my best,” affirmed Gallardo, paying tribute to the legacy of Rodríguez Ibarra and Fernández Vara in his speech.
The new general secretary, 49 years old, thanked his opponent for the courage and work he had done during the primaries, stressing that in Extremadura only the PSOE opens up to society as it has done. “From now on it is time for everyone to work together and for everyone to put on the PSOE shirt,” stressed Gallardo. “We want a united and strong party, the most important thing is that the PSOE wins,” noted the candidate from Cáceres, ten years his junior, emphasizing the high turnout recorded in the process.
The Organizing Secretary of the PSOE Extremadura, Marisol Mateos, has stressed that the most important thing in the process is that the PSOE appears united and strong, with the aim of removing María Guardiola from the Extremadura Regional Government. Mateos has reported that the turnout was 77.52%, 10 points more than in the 2017 elections. From the PSOE of Extremadura, “the absolute normality was highlighted throughout the day, exemplary, exceptional and exemplary for the organization as a whole “. .”
The PSOE of Extremadura experienced a historic election day that began at ten in the morning in the various houses of the city. A total of 9,601 socialist militants were called to elect the new socialist leader, whose great challenge will be to regain the Junta of Extremadura, which had lost following the result of the 28-M elections last May: although it was the first strength, The PSOE did not achieve the necessary majority with Unidas Podemos. The pact between the Popular Party and Vox took away the regional executive power that Fernández Vara had regained in 2015. The former president of Extremadura has been secretary general since 2008.
The party's next major event will take place on March 22 and 23, with the celebration of the 14th Extraordinary Regional Congress in Mérida for the election of the members of the new regional executive commission, the ethics commission, the proportional part of the federal committee and the regional parties elected by the autonomous party congress .
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