Julio Cruz will be the right hand, as Secretary of Organization, of the new Secretary General of the Canarian Socialist Party-PSOE, in a regional Executive that will be chaired by the former mayor of Puerto de la Cruz, Dolores Padrón, who supported Manuel Marcos Pérez in his fight to succeed Juan Fernando López Aguilar.
The 'post López Aguilar' Executive has received the support of 63'6 percent of the votes cast and 35'9 percent of abstentions and no votes against by the 228 delegates who exercised their right to vote in the extraordinary Congress that closes this Sunday in the Auditorium of Tenerife.
The leadership of the PSC, therefore, has been supported by 9 percent more of the delegates who raised the president of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria to the leadership of the Canarian socialists.
None of the men and women of López Aguilar, such as Santiago Pérez, Gloria Gutiérrez, Sandra Rodríguez or Arcadio Díaz Tejera, have disappeared from the new regional leadership.
The new strong men of the PSC are clearly contrary to the line established by López Aguilar from 2007, and there is even a victim of this, Francisco Hernández Spínola, who resigned "for dignity" as spokesman for the Parliamentary Group in September 2008 and now rises with the coordination of the area of Political and Economic Relations.
Next to him, Sebastián Franquis (Relations with Public Administrations), the Tenerife senator and former mayor of Buenavista Aurelio Abreu (Social Policies), the former president of the Cabildo Lanzarote, Manuela Armas (Sustainable Development and Territorial Policy) and the former Secretary of State for Justice, Julio Pérez (Program and PSC Foundation) appear.
Only 3 (Rita Gómez Castro, José Adrián Hernández and Inés Sánchez) of the 36 members of the new leadership are palmeros, the island that most strongly bet on Manuel Marcos Pérez.
It is also worth highlighting the rise of Javier Abreu, Santiago Pérez's authentic 'bete noire' in the Socialist Group of La Laguna, to the area of Electoral Action and the return to the regional leadership of José Alcaraz as Secretary of Institutional Relations.
Territorially, Gran Canaria has 'placed' 10 members in the regional Executive, the same as Tenerife, while Fuerteventura has 4 representatives, La Gomera, Lanzarote and La Palma have 3 representatives and El Hierro, one representative.
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