2023-11-16 06:08:20
Barcelona 11/16/2023 at 06:44 CET
Until now they have had two ministers: Miquel Iceta, in charge of Culture; and Raquel Sánchez, in charge of the Ministry of Transportation.
If Pedro Sánchez can continue in the Moncloa it is, to a large extent, because of the result obtained by the PSC in Catalonia. Salvador Illa, who has decided to go to Congress to witness the re-election of the PSOE leader as president with the votes of ERC and Junts, is currently the main baron of the party at the state level. It is because of this numerical contribution that from the Pallars headquarters they work so that it also has a political translation in terms of influence, that the Catalan socialists aspire to maintain their influence in the new Government. Until now they have had two ministers: Miquel Iceta, in charge of Culture; and Raquel Sánchez, in charge of the Ministry of Transportation.
Illa is always cautious and restrained when referring to the composition of the executive and limits himself to defending that it is the president’s prerogative to choose the team with which he will take the helm of the legislature, even more so when the trust between the two, as well as the communion between the PSC and the PSOE roadmap, it’s total. But other members of its leadership admit that the “logical” It would be that their presence in the Council of Ministers was not diminished and that they are working to make that happen. “We’ll try”they maintain.
Presence beyond the Council of Ministers
But they not only refer to ministries, but also point out how important it is to hold responsibilities in other levels of administration of the State. At this time, they have Francesc Valles as Secretary of State for Communication; Victor Francos as Secretary of Sports and Raul Blanco as president of Renfe. Xavier Floreswho is general secretary of Infrastructure, is not a member of the party.
The PSC seeks not only presence, but “influence” on the future Governmentand consider that this involves placing leaders considered blacklegs of the party and who, in addition to management experience, provide political seal in a legislature in which Catalonia and the relationship with the independentists will be key. Without going further, The Comuns’ bet is Ernest Urtasun at the head of Culture, which shows how the Catalan formations will seek to establish a profile in the executive. Illa himself explained this Tuesday that has “shared” with Sánchez the decision to shelve the causes of the ‘procés’ from the “conviction” that it will be an analgesic to resolve the territorial conflict.
The internal name dance has already begun, but conditioned on the premise that, when it comes to Sánchez, everything is “unpredictable”. What is taken for granted is that Illa, who was already Minister of Health during the first year of the pandemic, he is not going to move from Catalonia with his sights set on trying to be president of the Generalitat after the elections that will be held, at the latest, in just over a year. With him at the head of the party, the PSC has managed to win the last three elections, adding in the last general elections more votes -1.2 million- than ERC, Junts and CUP combined.
Granados, in the pool
One of the names that is handled as ministerable is that of Eva Granados, until now spokesperson for the PSOE in the Senate and Iceta’s right-hand man in the Parliament during the period in which he led the PSC, including the high points of the ‘procés’. Also that of the mayor of l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Núria Marín, who He has held this position for 15 years with a large majority and that she is a leader who has the relationship with Junts is well-oiled, a link that Sánchez needs to consolidate to guarantee the continuity of the legislature. Marín presided over the Barcelona Provincial Council until the last municipal elections in a government shared with the post-convergents that was finally not reissued due to the move of Jaume Collboni to snatch away Xavier Trias the mayor of Barcelona.
Some people does not consider Iceta himself retiredwhether looking at the Moncloa or with an eye on the european elections. More difficult is the repetition of Raquel Sánchez as minister after being failed in Congress at the request of the independence movement for the management of Rodalies, whose transfer has been agreed with ERC. And others municipal totems of Catalan socialism also enter the pools, although Illa reserve some names thinking about the possibility of being in the next Government. The doubts will soon be resolved, since it is taken for granted that, after the investiture, the design of the new Government will be announced quickly with the aim of deactivating the protests of the right and the extreme right.
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