The Secretary General of the Cartagena Socialists will present his candidacy for the party’s primaries
The general secretary of the PSRM-PSOE in Cartagena, Manolo Torres García, announced this Monday to the leaders of the six local groups of his party that he will lead a candidacy for the primaries called to elect the candidate for mayor of the municipality in the elections of the day May 28, 2023. Previously, it was communicated to the Secretary General of the Socialists in the Region and Government delegate, José Vélez.
The Socialist Party opens this Monday the primary processes for the election of candidates for next year’s municipal elections. If more than one list attends, the internal elections will be held on October 9. If not, that of Torres will be proclaimed next weekend, provided that it obtains the endorsements of at least 12% of the Cartagena socialist militancy. The socialist groups of Cartagena add eight hundred affiliates.
Torres is 36 years old, studied Physical Activity and Sports Sciences and is a self-employed entrepreneur dedicated to the hospitality industry in his neighborhood, Santa Lucía. He has been secretary general of the PSOE in Cartagena since February 2020, after prevailing in another primary process against former councilor and former regional deputy Ángel Rafael Martínez Lorente. Since then, he has been in charge of rebuilding the Socialist Party in the municipality after the internal earthquake that led to the expulsion in 2019 of its former leader Ana Belén Castejón, for agreeing with the PP and Ciudadanos on a tripartite municipal government without the consent of the militants and the leading bodies of the party.
«Now we begin a primary process in which I am going to request the support and backing of the militants of Cartagena with a very clear message: we are going to return the values of the more social left, more Cartagena. I want to excite all those who have been disappointed because they do not feel represented by the current right-wing municipal government, which has forgotten the people and the problems they suffer every day because it is only busy with their photos and events, “he said. to the true.
Torres’s candidacy will integrate the secretary of Municipal Policy and spokesman for the socialist executive commission, Pedro Contreras, who in socialist circles was also given the chance to lead the official candidacy. It also clears up the unknown about the political future of the regional deputy Carmina Fernández, who will finally appear on the regional list of José Vélez.
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