• Politics The Andalusian Government sets a date for the regional elections to rule out the electoral advance: November 27, 2022

The Andalusian PSOE, the most powerful federation of the party in

Spain

with almost 46,000 members, has opted for change and has elected the mayor of

Seville

, Juan Espadas, as a socialist candidate for the next Andalusian elections.

With 93% scrutinized, he has achieved 55.19% of the votes.

Susana Díaz, general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE since 2013 and former president of the

Junta de Andalucía

, has suffered a severe defeat, being supported only by 38.43% of the votes.

Closer results were expected among the candidates, in which a second round was even necessary, if none of the candidates reached 50%, but ultimately it will not be necessary, since Espadas has clearly imposed itself.

It is the first time that the militants of the PSOE in Andalusia elect in a primaries the socialist candidate who will stand in the Andalusian regional elections, which must be held on November 27, 2022, if the president of the Board, Juanma Moreno (PP) , decides to exhaust the legislature and not advance them.

When the socialist candidate who chooses to stand for election again is governing, he should not submit to a primaries before the militancy.

The PSOE has governed Andalusia uninterruptedly for 40 years.

The first Andalusian socialist president was Rafael Escuredo, who held the position between 1979 and 1985, and the last, Susana Díaz, Andalusian president between September 2013 and January 2019.

In the campaign, Susana Díaz has claimed her right to run again in the Andalusian elections because the most voted list in December 2018 was hers.

However, on the way he left around 400,000 votes and lost the Presidency of the Board.

Susana Díaz votes in the Triana-Los Remedios Socialist Group.Fermín CabanillasEFE

Faced with the militancy, Díaz has presented himself as the victim of an operation to remove her from the middle "because she is a woman" and as the only one who guarantees the Andalusian PSOE a "own voice", far from Ferraz's tutelage. he supposes his adversary.

Juan Espadas defends that he is the candidate who will best know how to reunify the party and overcome the wounds and confrontations of the past.

At the same time, it is claimed as an alternative "of change" to regain the Presidency of the Board.

"We are in a different time and if we do the same we will get the same result," he told Susana Díaz during the debate held at the headquarters of the PSOE-A on June 8.

The third candidate, Luis Ángel Hierro, is a professor of Economics at the University of Seville, was a deputy in the Congress of Deputies between 2004 and 2007 and an Andalusian parliamentarian between 2000 and 2004.

Linked to sanchismo, Hierro also attended the PSOE primaries in 2011 at the national level, when Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba was elected secretary general.

45,374 Socialist militants were called to the PSOE-A primaries, who had to vote at one of the 643 tables distributed by the 807 houses of the town, as the party headquarters are traditionally known.

1,940 auditors and attorneys-in-fact participated in the event.

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  • PSOE

  • Andalusia

  • Susana diaz

  • Juan Espadas

  • Pedro Sanchez

  • Seville

  • Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

  • Fernando iron

  • Congress of Deputies

  • PP

  • Andalusia Elections

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