The former Minister of Transport and former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, José Luis Ábalos, will be one of the names that integrate in the first positions the list of the Socialists to the Congress of Deputies on July 23. After two years away from the first line of the party, although with his act of deputy, Pedro Sánchez and the PSPV of Ximo Puig use him in a candidacy that is expected to be headed by the Minister of Science, Diana Morant, and in which the Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, will be.

The name of Ábalos will be proposed and endorsed in the assemblies that the Valencian Socialists are holding this Monday and Tuesday and the bulk of this list will be approved by the PSPV this Thursday to be endorsed in the Federal Committee next Saturday. Who was one of the main pillars of Sanchismo returns not only to revalidate his seat but to activate the bases after the territorial debacle in regional and municipal.

The departure of Ábalos from the Government and the leadership of the PSOE occurred surprisingly two years ago. On July 10, Sánchez announced a government reshuffle that left Ábalos, until then Minister of Transport, without portfolio. Two days later, before the blow received, the Valencian politician presented his resignation to the Secretariat of Organization and became a deputy further away from the circle of the president, who now returns to claim it.

"The best possible lists"

Who will not go on that list is Ximo Puig. The leader of the Valencian Socialists already announced last week that he would stay in the Cortes to lead the opposition to the government headed by Carlos Mazón.

As secretary general of the PSPV he will have the responsibility of recovering Valencian socialism, although he wanted to value the results of 28-M, which although they did not give him the Government meant the"best result since 2007". "We will make the best possible lists to strengthen "that "powerful" electoral soil and go to seek the vote of the 220,000 leftist people who stayed at home and the 50,000 voters of Citizens who also did, "Puig warned.

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