At almost 82 years old, Miguel Ángel Revilla plans to continue leading the Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) after having actively and passively proclaimed his retirement. And this would not be a surprise – since the first time he said he was leaving politics was 40 years ago – if he had not publicly announced that, this time, his succession at the head of the party that he himself founded more than four decades ago would have place in this legislature, in a context, furthermore, in which he is in the opposition after suffering a resounding electoral setback in 2023 that led him to lose the Cantabrian Government.
However, in a new twist of the script, the former president of Cantabria has now opened the door for the first time to continue as general secretary of the party, according to He stated this Friday in an interview on Cadena SER. “If everyone asks me, how can I say no,” said Revilla in those statements collected by this newspaper. Revilla has assured that before next summer a process will be carried out to choose his successor as a candidate for the next elections – until now it has always been the general secretary. However, he has now raised the possibility of establishing bicephaly, so that he can maintain the reins of the PRC.
In the aforementioned interview on Cadena SER, Revilla insists that he is going to call an extraordinary Congress to elect a candidate and in which his party will have to modify the statutes so that he can continue serving as general secretary, a mandate that is renewed every four years. and that expires at the end of 2026.
“I am going to call an extraordinary Congress so that Cantabria knows who the person we are going to appoint to replace me is, but if they ask me [que siga] unanimously, how can I refuse?” Revilla expressed. “I founded the party, and those who are here are here for me,” recalled the veteran leader of the PRC, questioning again how to reject a hypothetical unanimous request: “How can I refuse if they ask me insistently? ?”
However, Revilla has said he is aware of his advanced age and that this may be a factor to take into account in the decision. And, above all, he wanted to make it clear that his continuity has to be “asked for by everyone.” “If there are doubts, then no, because I am delighted; At 82 years old, I have to be a deputy until this cycle ends and if I live a couple of more years, write a couple more books,” he stated, emphasizing that “the problem is not the years, but the conditions” that are going on. to be “85 years old.” “You wake up one morning and you are no longer who you were the day before,” he acknowledged.
Candidates for succession
Regarding the possible candidates to succeed him, Revilla has assured, as he has done on several occasions, that he would like there to be a single candidacy, but he is aware that it will be difficult for it to happen. “There are several possible candidates because there are people who want to inherit that position,” he stressed, highlighting it as something positive because, according to him, this indicates that they have the conditions to do so. Even so, he has stressed that whoever his successor is will not be able to match him.
“I already tell you that what I have done in this match and for Cantabria, it is wrong for me to say it but it is true, it is very difficult to do, because I have dedicated myself body and soul. My obsession is Cantabria and the party was an instrument, nothing more,” he stated.
Questioned about possible names, Revilla has cited many and many of those who are in the pools, but some have also been left out. Thus, he has mentioned as possible successors the regionalist deputy secretaries and regional deputies, Paula Fernández and Guillermo Blanco; to the mayor of Polanco, Rosa Díez; to the mayor of Torrelavega, Javier López Estrada and to the mayor of Valderredible, Fernando Fernández.
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