The Insular Committee of the PSOE of Lanzarote has proposed Francisco Manuel Fajardo Palarea as a candidate for the Senate in the general elections scheduled for July 23, together with Cristina Duque, Miguel Merino and Ángela Cañaveras, who will be alternates.
The proposal of the highest body between congresses of the Socialist Party of Lanzarote will become definitive in the Federal Committee to be held next Saturday, June 10, after assessment by the Federal List Commission.
Francisco Manuel Fajardo Palarea has served as senator of Lanzarote from November 2019 until the call for general elections, having held the position of first secretary of the Senate Board.
Likewise, as candidates for the island to the list of the Congress of Deputies for the province of Las Palmas, the Insular Committee of the PSOE has proposed Ariagona González, Alberto Guevara, Robson Vidal and Juan Ramón Pérez.
Unlike the Senate, the proposals to the Congress will now be assessed by the Regional Executive Commission, which will have to reorder the island proposals to prepare the list corresponding to each of the provincial constituencies to be definitively approved by the Federal Committee, after a report from the Federal List Commission.
The candidate to renew was elected senator in 2019 after obtaining 15,352 votes (31.5 percent), a distance of more than 5,500 votes from the candidate of the Popular Party, who occupied the second place, and more than 7,600 votes from the candidate of the Canarian Coalition, who occupied the third place. To the Congress of Deputies, with Ariagona González as representative of Lanzarote, the PSOE was also the most voted force on the island, with 15,211 votes (30.1 percent).
A clear objective: to revalidate as the first force
Prior to the proposals of candidacies, the Insular Committee analyzed and assessed the results of the municipal, insular and autonomous elections held on May 28, in which the Socialist Party has consolidated itself as the first political force on the island, far from the rest of the formations.
In the words of the general secretary, María Dolores Corujo, «We lost the Cabildo by 69 votes, but we won the insular constituency by 720 votes, the regional by 2,979 and the municipal by 4,701 and, for the first time, we won in five of the seven municipalities of the island».
"The results support us and we can only have one objective: to win the next general elections in Lanzarote in a resounding way," Corujo concluded.
