The current leadership of Podemos in Andalusia will launch a continuing candidacy in the primary process that the party will carry out in November. In doubt is the continuity of Martina Velardethe current regional general secretary and deputy in Congress, in front.
The sources consulted by Public at the Podemos address indicate that the complete candidacy with all their names It will be presented next November 4 predictably.
Yes, the sources assure that it was Velarde herself who put it on the table the need to assess whether to continue or not. The “reflection” is there and Velarde, whether he continues or not, will support this candidacy, according to sources.
Podemos deputies in the Andalusian Parliament, according to sources, will also be either in this candidacy or will support it. You will also receive support from councilors and public officials in the provinces. The state leadership of Podemos, according to sources, views this candidacy well.
Podemos, unlike in the Congress of Deputies, where it travels alone, in the autonomous community it is integrated into the parliamentary group For Andalusia. She shares it with an IU representative, Inma Nieto, who is the spokesperson, and with another from Sumar, Esperanza Gómez, who initially represented Más País.
This coalition got off to a bad start. Podemos was left out of it legally, and its members entered the lists as independents. In the elections, For Andalusia he obtained only five deputieswith whom they were able to form a parliamentary group.
The legislature started with anger among its members and a fight ensued for control of the group. Later, thanks to work and various efforts and As time has passed, the situation has become normal. and today the five deputies, without functioning being a panacea, do work normally.
Among the decisions that the leadership that emerges from the primary process will have to make is deciding whether to present themselves in the next regional elections under the umbrella of Por Andalucía, as the Communist Party wants and UI, or not. At the moment, according to sources, there is nothing written. Opinions in Podemos vary depending on who is asked, but a groundswell is detected with this issue in the party.
Deadlines and alternative candidacy
The deadlines for the renewal of the Andalusian leadership of Podemos are as follows. The party, according to Europa Presswill deploy in November the primary process to elect coordinator: From the 4th to the 7th of November, applications can be pre-registered to the coordination, to the Autonomous Citizen Council and to the Commission of Democratic Guarantees.
On the 8th, individual pre-candidacies will be published, which will have from the 10th to the 13th to present personal and collegiate endorsements. On Saturday the 23rd, the candidatures and final lists will be made public. Voting will be carried out electronically from Monday, November 25 to 29.
The spokesperson for Podemos in the Seville City Council, Susana Hornillowill lead an alternative candidacy to that of the management, as he already stated to Public. Stove posed, in statements to this newspaper“a project that is born from the bottom up and that is born from a collective debate.”
We can just finish one consultation on the General State Budgets in which 6,174 registered in Andalusia have participated16.11% of the participants throughout the State. These figures, according to a party note sent to the media, represent almost 2,000 more people than in the municipal primary process in November 2022.
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