MEP Javi López will once again lead the PSC list for the European elections on June 9. This has been ratified by the party’s executive committee meeting this Monday, so that the MEP will repeat for the third consecutive time, since 2014, as head of the list of Salvador Illa’s party.
In this way, the party once again trusts in the seniority of the MEP who already headed the PSC list in the 2014 and 2019 European elections, and it remains to be known where he will be integrated into the PSOE list, since in the elections to the European Parliament, the electoral constituency is unique in Spain and integrates the entire national territory.
The fact that the European elections overlap with the Catalan elections did not favor making too many changes, which are not foreseen in the PSOE list beyond the significant novelty that the third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, will mean. be the headliner of Spanish socialism before the June event.
Along with Javi López, the PSC executive committee has decided to appoint Laura Ballarín, also an MEP of the Catalan party since last year, and Enric López Jurado, president of the Young European Socialists (TES), as number two and three on the list . The appointment of the executive commission is direct, so it will not be necessary to ratify it in a national council of the PSC, which has not yet been established after the ordinary congress in March.
Javi López will be the last time he can run as a candidate in a European election, but in his latest public interventions he has indicated the objective for this last term of office is to stop the winds that blow in favor of the extreme right in Europe and that aim to “poison the project.” European”.
At a press conference after the executive commission, the PSC spokesperson and mayor of Santa Coloma, Núria Parlon, was convinced that López and Ballarian “will have a good place” in the socialist candidacy. “We want them to be well placed on this list that represents the entire socialist proposal to lead a transformation project in Europe,” he indicated after highlighting the “very important and outstanding” work that the two PSC MEPs have carried out this year. legislature.
The PSC candidate (Madrid, 1985) has a degree in Law, has been co-president of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, member of the Council of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), full member of the Commission on the Environment, Public Health and Food Security, of the Security and Defense Subcommittee, and deputy secretary general of the Spanish socialist delegation in the European Parliament.
