Reuters, 04/04 10:56 CET
The secretary general of the Socialist Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara (i) and the first secretary of the PSC, Miquel Iceta, during the Madrid meeting of the Federal Committee of the PSOE, last March 28. EFE
Madrid, April 4 ( EFE ) .- The PSOE will go to the regional and municipal elections from May 24 to applications which have been renewed by 83 percent compared to previous elections in 2011, when the Socialists suffered a major setback at the polls.
The training leads Pedro Sanchez will attend with about 7,200 lists, comprising around 62,000 candidates, allowing you to appear in 95 percent of the 8,117 municipalities that exist in Spain.
The renewal of the lists approved by the Committee Federal celebrated last Saturday, is reflected in the headliners in the autonomous communities and provincial capitals, where three out of four are new, with a mean age of 41 years.
the territorial dispute, only repeat the Asturian President, Javier Fernández; Guillermo Fernández Vara, in Extremadura; and José Antonio Carracao in Melilla.
Also going to be repeated in Madrid Tomás Gómez, but was dismissed in February and relieved by the former Minister of Education Ángel Gabilondo.
Emiliano Premieres García-Page in Castilla-La Mancha, after eight years as mayor of Toledo.
It also highlights the increased presence of women vying to rule in their territories, since there will be six candidates (Canary Islands, Cantabria , Balearic Islands, Navarra and La Rioja, plus Melilla), all new, when in 2011 there were three.
Among the candidates for mayor, one in four women (25%), a percentage slightly higher than 2011 (23.1%).
repeat over 2011 twelve heads of provincial capitals list -Seville, Granada, Malaga, Huesca, Salamanca, Soria, Valladolid, Cuenca, Lleida, Tarragona , Valencia and Lugo -.
PSOE also made with the government of the municipalities of Zaragoza, Toledo, Segovia and Ourense, but they are renewed candidates.
As for the previous elections, the novelty is that the PSOE concurs with “zipper” lists, in which men and women on alternate or vice versa, versus parity criterion was applied in 2011, which set a range of between 40 and 60 percent of the presence of both sexes.
In the autonomic applications, 50.5 % men and 49.4% women, almost identical percentages with respect to municipal (50.7 and 49.2%, respectively).
In the electoral boards of PSOE also highlights the rise of independent, reaching 21.8% in municipalities and 9.6%, in the autonomous regions, among which cases like Ángel Gabilondo in Madrid or the journalist Fernando Delgado in Valencia.
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