The PSOE lists for the Madrid City Council begin to see the light.
But not without effort.
Because the last few days have shown a
distance between the two factions
that now make up the capital's party: that of the municipal candidate and Minister of Industry,
Reyes Maroto
, and that of the Government delegate and general secretary of the Socialist Group of Madrid City,
Mercedes González
.
Two factions that have turned the preparation of the lists, already completed in the absence of Ferraz's approval, into a political battle to place their like-minded within what will be the future municipal group after May 28.
"It has not been easy, we are not going to fool ourselves,"
party sources point out.
"There are two women with character at the helm and the negotiation has been tough," says another PSOE official.
And finally the balance has settled on the side of Reyes Maroto, who has managed to place his team and A good part of national profiles on the lists.
There are names like Soledad Murillo, former Secretary of State for Equality, at number 2;
Adriana Moscoso, General Director of Cultural Industries;
Ana Isabel Lima, former Secretary of State for Social Services;
o María Caso, member of the Advisory Council of Spain Entrepreneurial Nation.
"The candidate is Reyes and the logical thing is that she is the one who makes the lists.
With Mercedes we have asked them to be generous because she is the general secretary of the city. But the candidate has control," say PSOE-M sources, who They acknowledge that the negotiation process has been "hard" and that "there have been frictions."
In fact, the leader of the socialists in Madrid himself has acted as a link between Maroto and González so that they meet and thus close the lists.
"We were not going to impose names, it is not up to us to do so, but it has been necessary to mediate", they affirm in the team of the general secretary.
But it has not only been the PSOE-M who has incarnated that function;
Ferraz has also exercised his power of mediation.
In fact, yesterday morning there was a meeting of three at the national headquarters of the PSOE in which Mercedes González, Juan Lobato and the Secretary of Organization of the Socialists, Santos Cerdán, participated.
"There everything has been more or less on track,"
confirm sources from the Socialists
, who ensure that there may still be "some movement of positions" on the list before approval occurs, which must first be done by the Madrid City Association and later by Ferraz.
"Historically in the capital the national has always intervened, but it also did so in the regional ones and in these we have not received any instruction," say sources from the Madrid socialists.
In the list of PSOE candidates for the Madrid City Council
, which almost completely revolutionizes the current municipal group, Mercedes González's quota is also represented with the national deputy Daniel Viondi and with the regional deputy and general deputy secretary of the socialists of the capital Enrique Rico.
And that of the current team of the Consistory headed by Enma López, a councilor since 2019 and close to Moncloa, who will also act as director of the municipal campaign, but which also includes the mayors Pedro Barrero, Ignacio Benito, Emilia Martínez and Álvaro Vidal. .
These last three from tenth place, which would force the training to considerably increase its results.
"It is a very renewed list, with a more winning profile and with the intention of improving our results. Because we cannot ignore that those of 2019 were very bad and we cannot continue like this," they say from the match in the capital, where they trust good part of their options due to the pull of these national profiles and the presence of members of the Government of Spain in the campaign for the proximity of Reyes Maroto to Moncloa, by continuing as minister at least until March 18, the date on which the the Federal Committee of the PSOE where his cessation will be executed.
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