The socialist municipal spokesman of Alicante, Francesc Sanguino, has revolted against what he defines as a “parallel municipal group” within the party and has informed Ferraz of what he considers “very serious and harmful conduct” for the PSOE. In a letter sent to the national, regional and provincial executives, Sanguino denounces that “from the first day”, he has had a team of councilors and advisers against him, orchestrated by former senator Ángel Franco, who has always been attributed the management in the shadow of Alicante socialism in the last two decades. The one who was number one in the PSOE for Alicante in the last municipal elections requires the national executive commission to “study the case and take the appropriate measures.”
As Sanguino declared to EL PAÍS, since last November “every morning at 9”, Franco heads a meeting in which “a group of councillors, the general secretary, Miguel Millana, the organization secretary, Pedro Ródenas, participate , and some municipal advisers, among them the press officer hired by the municipal group”. Behind the back of Sanguino, who is “annulled as spokesperson”, these meetings serve to “design municipal policy”, send “daily reactions and press releases on municipal policy to the press headed not by the spokesperson, but by Millana” and decide “initiatives that will be carried out in full, when they should be agreed in any case in the executive or in the municipal group”.
On repeated occasions, especially at the beginning of these meetings, they came to include statements by Sanguino “without his permission or knowledge”, for which he demanded “that they withdraw.” The socialist municipal spokesman also maintains in his notification that he has “demanded the Local Secretary General to desist from carrying out municipal political activity without his consent or participation, not to lead criticism of the local government or proposals supplanting the spokesman, that the communication be unified and that Institutional respect will be kept for the spokesperson”, without this behavior having changed.
The situation has led Sanguino to dismiss three advisers, Ródenas, Ana Candela and Javier Prats, who will be replaced as soon as possible to “face the last year of the legislature” that remains in force, indicates the head of the opposition in the Alicante town hall . He has also requested the dismissal of the councilor Trini Amorós as deputy spokesperson and intends to return to the boards and councils of autonomous and participated organizations that he once ceded to the members of this group, in Mercalicante and in Aguas de Alicante. Finally, Sanguino wants to assign himself the socialist representation on the board of the Teatro Principal, of which he was director before taking the plunge into politics. Both the decision on Amorós and those on the representative positions must be submitted to a vote in the municipal group.
The disagreements of the socialist candidates with Franco are not new in Alicante. Sanguino places these differences since 1996. As recalled by a former member of the provincial executive of the PSOE who prefers to remain anonymous, in the socialist group there are only two alternatives: “Either you throw yourself into the arms of Ángel Franco or you end up blown up.” “It is the curse of the Alicante PSOE”, he continues.
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He equates the current situation of Sanguino with that of other party leaders “such as José Antonio Pina, Roque Moreno or Etelvina Andreu”, all of them from the university sphere, not from socialist structures, “candidacies that ended like the rosary at dawn” . And he warns: “Yes, as it is getting ahead, the PSOE replaces Sanguino with [la exconsejera de Sanidad] Ana Barceló or by [la actual consejera de Innovación] Josefina Bueno”, to lead the municipal lists in the next elections, “will have to prepare to face Franco”.
The president of the Generalitat Valenciana and secretary general of the PSPV-PSOE, Ximo Puig, acknowledged on Monday that there are “tensions” in the PSPV in Alicante that are due to the local sphere and stressed that “no one is essential.” Puig made these statements during his visit to the UJI in Castellón to attend the completion of the works of the Faculty of Health Sciences when asked about the differences. Puig has pointed out in this regard that, “in any case, what any political leader should do in any instance is to always think of the general interest and bearing in mind that none of us is essential”.
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