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The convention that Esperanza Aguirre proposed to renew the strategy of the Popular Party is not going to be held at the moment. In principle, the date of the conclave was going to be set during the meeting this Tuesday of the regional Steering Committee, but the abdication of the King disrupted these plans. As El Confidencial Digital has learned through PP sources, the monarch's decision led to the suspension of the regional leadership meeting . This decision in turn has caused the postponement of the convention, since it is the Committee that must decide when it will be held. One of the most important topics to discuss at the convention that Aguirre proposed would be the election of candidates in the Community and City Council . Although the final decision falls on the national leadership, the most prominent figures of the Madrid PP are pushing to accelerate the process. Both the president of the Madrid PP, Esperanza Aguirre, and the president of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio González, have publicly expressed their preference for a quick appointment . They intend to avoid a repetition of the “Arias Cañete case,” whose nomination as a candidate practically ran out of deadlines. The main reason for calling the convention are the results in the elections to the European Parliament , which represent a setback compared to 2009. It is true that they were the most voted force. It is also no less true that they lost support throughout the country.
In Madrid, they went from 1,112,000 votes in 2009 to 661,000. At the national level, the 6,670,000 in 2009 fell to 4,074,000. The results of the popular formation in the European elections have caused concern in its ranks. The mayor of Madrid herself, Ana Phone Number List Botella , admitted in a press conference that her party must reconnect with voters. It is precisely this regenerationist line that prevails among the ruling party in Madrid. The convention , which lacks the power to elect representatives (a power that a congress would have), has the purpose of serving as a framework for debating ideas and setting strategies .Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba has mobilized to stop the internal revolt in the PSOE against the monarchy, a movement that threatens to spread throughout the federations throughout Spain. But he is not alone in this offensive. He has asked former presidents Felipe González and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for help to quell the republican outbreaks that are emerging after the king's abdication. As El Confidencial Digital has learned, from high-level socialist sources, the current leadership of the PSOE is trying, in a hidden but intense manner, to put out any republican fire, which they consider a danger to the political stability of the country, but also to the future. of the party itself.
Calls from González and Rodríguez Zapatero [OBJECT]The sources to which ECD has had access reveal that the two former socialist presidents are telephoning these days to senior regional officials of the party, to some of the ministers of their autonomous governments, and to intermediate officials of the party, to transmit two messages. clear: – With the succession of Don Juan Carlos, “the constitutional pact reached in the transition is being developed, in which the socialists were protagonists . ” – This pact has allowed “a long history of stability and progress in Spain, which now the PSOE cannot break . ” Rubalcaba himself already recognized this Wednesday that the PSOE has “deep republican roots” and defended the right of Spaniards to demonstrate and speak out “about monarchy or republic,” but he insisted that his party is today in the constitutional consensus and will continue being. Zarzuela has the support of Rubalcaba As ECD reported on the day of the king's abdication, one of the decisive data that Don Juan Carlos's entourage has handled to make that decision now has been precisely the complicated situation that the PSOE , one of the two governing parties, is going through. that exists in the country, and more specifically the announcement by Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba that he was resigning from the general secretary and calling an extraordinary congress.