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Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba made the decision on Sunday night to no longer lead the PSOE, announced yesterday. He lacked, however, the formula to control the game until he left. The Andalusian president, Susana Díaz, proposed the solution: hold an extraordinary congress before the primaries to place Eduardo Madina in the general secretary and leave Carme Chacón with hardly any options. As national leaders of the PSOE and members of Susana Díaz's team explain to El Confidencial Digital , the secretary general's announcement yesterday, in Ferraz, is the result of a negotiation between the two major apparatuses of the party: the federal executive and the Andalusian federation , the more important. Javier Fernández: you have to leave The sources consulted by ECD explain that, after learning the results of the European elections at 11 pm on Sunday, Rubalcaba had decided that he was no longer continuing, and “he started making phone calls . ” Two of the federations he contacted were Andalusia and Asturias, the only ones that, together with Extremadura, surpassed the PP in the elections. The president of the Principality, Javier Fernández, told Rubalcaba that the best thing he could do “was leave.” Susana Díaz , for her part, proposed to the Secretary General the calling of an extraordinary congress to create a new leadership to address the assault on La Moncloa in the 2015 general elections.
Senior officials of the Andalusian PSOE explain to this newspaper that the conversations between Ferraz and Seville continued yesterday morning , before and after Rubalcaba summoned the executive In those calls, Díaz and the general secretary agreed to Phone Number List hold the extraordinary congress on July 19 and 20 . Rubalcaba, who was initially more in favor of advancing primaries, changed his mind after listening to the Andalusian leader, who promised him a series of strategic alliances to leave Carme Chacón practically “out of the game.” Susana president of the PSOE, Madina general secretary Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba and Susana Díaz have designed a scenario that involves the current party leadership piloting the organization of the Congress and supporting, internally, a candidate: Eduardo Madina , which is the current bet of the Andalusian leader. The operation would bring with it his election as general secretary, as well as the formation of a new federal executive in which the president of the Junta de Andalucía will also become, as José Antonio Griñán already achieved in 2012, president of the PSOE. Once the new leadership is formed, Madina and Díaz, who have the support of the old guard led by Felipe González , would get to work to create a team and an electoral program aimed at victory in the November general elections. of 2015. Patxi López , who was once considered Rubalcaba's candidate for the primaries, would support Madina .
The sources consulted by ECD explain that the former lehendakari “was, in principle, the one chosen by the apparatus.” However, the strong electoral setback by the Europeans has caused "now we look in the direction of Madina, which seems the only one capable of mobilizing the left-wing electorate." The primaries, if held, would be “Andalusian style” With this panorama, sources close to the Andalusian president explain, " the party would not have the need to hold primaries ," since starting in July there will be a general secretary with the support of an extraordinary congress, and with a political project aimed at leading the PSOE electoral list. In the current national leadership, with Rubalcaba at the helm, and in the Andalusian federation of Susana Díaz, they are aware that elections open to citizens are “a promise to our voters and something approved in a Federal Committee”, so in Ferraz does not rule out that these could be held. However, the leaders consulted warn that these primaries, which were once called “French-style” because they were open to militancy and sympathizers, will now become “Andalusian-style” elections, with a single candidate , who I would be the general secretary. That formula, remember, was already used just a few months ago by Susana Díaz to be named, in November, candidate for the Board and general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE. Furthermore, Zapatero, in 2011, named Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba as the only candidate to head the list for the general elections, which forced Carme Chacón to take a step back.