The PSOE has included the general secretary of UGT AndalucÃa, Carmen Castilla, as ‘number three’ of its candidacy for the Congress of Deputies for the province of Seville for the general elections on July 23, which will be led by the Minister of Treasury and Public Function and Deputy Secretary General of the PSOE, MarÃa Jesús Montero.
The Executive of the PSOE of Seville and the Provincial Committee of the party have approved this Wednesday the proposal of candidacies to the Cortes Generales, which will be elevated to the Executive of the PSOE of Andalusia and definitively approved by the Socialist Federal Committee next Saturday, 10 June, as reported by the party in a note.
The leader of the UGT-A union is also the PSOE’s number three candidate for Congress for the Seville constituency, behind the aforementioned MarÃa Jesús Montero and the first vice president of the Congress of Deputies and secretary of Municipal Policy of the Federal Executive of the PSOE, Alfonso RodrÃguez Gómez de Celis, who repeats as number two, the position from which he concurred in the previous general elections of November 2019.
Antonio Muñoz, at number three, occupies a starting position for the Senate, and everything indicates that he will make the position compatible with the task of opposition councilor in the Seville City Council, after the electoral defeat of the 28M against the PP, one of the losses “most painful” of the party and the most important consistory of the socialists at the national level.
Carmen Castilla renewed as general secretary of UGT-A at the XII Ordinary Congress that the union held in May 2021, thus beginning her third consecutive term at the head of said organization since she was elected general secretary for the first time in January 2014, although it was then appointed by a committee after the election of a manager constituted as a result of the resignation, in November 2013, of the then general secretary, Francisco Fernández Sevilla.
Castilla’s career in the exercise of managerial responsibilities in the union began in May 2013 with his incorporation into the Executive Commission of UGT AndalucÃa, a body where he assumed the Secretariat of Social Policies and Equality.
Eight months later, in January 2014, Castilla became general secretary of UGT-A for the first time, a mandate that she revalidated two years later, in April 2016, within the framework of the regional congress that the union held then.
Carmen Castilla was born in Écija (Seville) and has a university degree in Nursing and a degree in Psychology and Law. For 20 years she worked as a nurse at the San Lázaro Hospital in Seville.
