The PSOE has announced that it has challenged the election process of the governing bodies of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and that it will study the appropriate legal measures upon detecting that Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party had breached the organization’s statutes in the candidacies presented.
According to a note released by the PSOE, the PP would have violated up to two of the articles referring to the candidacies for the Governing Board and the Territorial Council of the FEMP, which held the plenary session this Saturday in which these positions were renewed. These articles clearly indicate that no person “may appear in more than one candidacy.”
Specifically, the PP would have violated article 31 on the composition and election of the Members of the Government Board (Chapter III) in its section 3.a, which develops the electoral system in the following way: “Closed candidacies will be presented that will include a maximum of twenty-two people, none of them may present themselves in more than one candidacy.” Also article 26 on the composition and election of the members of the Territorial Council (Chapter II) in its article 26.b.1, which is pronounced in the same sense, the prohibition of a person being able to present more than one candidacy .
These statutes have been in force since their approval at the XII Plenary Session of the FEMP, held in Madrid on September 21, 2019. Four years later, the municipal entity has held its XIII plenary session, in which the governing bodies have been renewed after the municipal elections of 28-M.
The PP, as the party with the most votes in those elections, has taken over the presidency of the FEMP, which has fallen to the mayor of Jerez, María José García-Pelayo, who will replace Abel Caballero (PSOE), mayor of Vigo.
At the XIII Plenary Session of the federation, the mayor of Santander, Gema Igual, was appointed as vice president, and the mayors of Valencia, María José Catalá, and of Zaragoza, Natalia Chueca, were appointed as spokespersons, all of them from the PP and whose names had appeared. among the possible candidates to preside over the entity.
The plenary session had to choose its governing bodies from candidates from different political parties and thus adapt its structures to the results of the 28-M elections, with the election of new positions, in addition to approving the lines of action for the 2023 mandate. 2027.
