Ribera obtains assist as a candidate for the European elections of the PSOE assemblies in Madrid | Spain | EUROtoday

This weekend the PSOE has left one other indication that Teresa Ribera will likely be, within the absence of her formal nomination, the candidate of the primary authorities occasion within the European elections on June 9. The militant assemblies of Madrid, the federation to which she belongs, this Saturday “massively” supported the third vp of the Government and Minister of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, in accordance with sources from the regional management led by Juan Lobato. Ribera, affiliated with Majadahonda, obtained essentially the most votes within the 123 PSOE teams in Madrid, which expressly requested the vote for the quantity 4 of the Executive. “Everyone everywhere has voted for Ribera,” summarizes the management of the Madrid socialists.

The forecast is that Pedro Sánchez will announce this Monday, on the assembly of the federal govt through which the results of the Basque elections will likely be analyzed, that Ribera would be the headliner chosen for the European Parliament elections. The president of the Government and common secretary of the PSOE will wait till the electoral course of has concluded in Euskadi, the place the socialists aspire to develop and be the important thing to the federal government, re-editing the coalition with the PNV that started in 2016.

Ferraz has insisted in latest days that the procedures needed to be revered and await the proposals of the territories, and that’s what makes the assist that the third vp has achieved in Madrid so vital. The diploma of approval that Ribera has obtained reinforces his election on the head of the European lists in a federation that’s all the time related to the secretary common – the president of the Government additionally militates for the PSOE of Madrid – and that, subsequently, is taken without any consideration that must be proposed to the individual main the candidacy.

Another vital issue is the closing of ranks of the management of the Madrid socialists with Ribera. The Secretary of Organization of the federation, Marta Bernardo, despatched an e mail on Thursday at midday to the final secretaries and organizational secretaries of the teams with the third vp's proposal. “Comrade, colleague, this Saturday, April 20, the extraordinary assembly will be held in each of the PSOE-Madrid groups to propose candidates for the European Parliament list,” the letter started. “As a show of support for our colleague, vice president of the Government of Spain, Teresa Ribera Rodríguez, who has always shown great commitment to the PSOE of Madrid, the federation to which she belongs, I propose her inclusion in the vote that will take place in the assembly on April 20 in your group,” he stated in the circular to which EL PAÍS has had access.

Voting for candidates on the lists is not exclusive, that is, a militant can support several candidates, but the gesture of the Madrid federation is symptomatic. Especially when the PSOE federation groups in other communities have generally voted for other candidates to be part of the list. The sources consulted in Ferraz maintain that there will be few changes to the current list of MEPs. The federal committee, the highest body of the PSOE between congresses, will approve it on April 27. The day before, the federal list commission is scheduled to meet to close the candidacy. But all signs point to the fact that this Monday it will be known who will lead the candidacy. And all eyes are fixed on Ribera.

“Once the elections in Euskadi are over, we will concentrate on the Catalan elections and also on the European ones. And, therefore, you will already know who the candidate proposed by the PSOE is going to be,” Sánchez observed after the European Council on Thursday in Brussels. The president put Ribera at the same level as Josep Borrell, high representative of the EU and who was tested to repeat at the head of the lists, and Nadia Calviño, who left the Ministry of Economy in January to preside over the European Investment Bank , as an example of the Spanish contribution in Europe. Sánchez praised Ribera's “feminine management” and praised her as an “accredited, revered and valued lady on the European and multilateral degree” in matters related “to local weather insurance policies, one of many primary challenges going through humanity.” In less than 24 hours, the PSOE is expected to confirm its commitment to Ribera, which the party has taken for granted for days.

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