The provincial leadership of the PSPV-PSOE has unanimously agreed this afternoon that the Socialist candidate to preside over the Valencia Provincial Council is the current vice president of the institution and mayor of Mislata, Carlos Fernández Bielsa.
The provincial executive has met this Thursday and has agreed with the support of all its members that Bielsa, who is also the provincial general secretary, opts to preside over the Valencia Provincial Council on behalf of the PSPV-PSOE, which has achieved 12 representatives in the provincial institution.
During the meeting, a multitude of interventions were made in support of Bielsa’s candidacy by the majority of county secretaries and mayors of the cities where the Socialists have achieved the best results in the municipal and regional elections last Sunday, as well as other prominent members of management.
It has also been highlighted that the mayor of Mislata has been the most voted in the socialist ranks of all Spanish cities with more than 40,000 inhabitants.
All the interventions have reaffirmed the unanimous position of the executive for Bielsa to become the province’s formal candidate for president of the Provincial Council.
Bielsa has thanked the proposal of the county secretaries, mayors and other members of the executive to head the Provincial Council, and has asked for prudence while waiting for the results to be confirmed and the distribution of deputies for the next legislature to be officially determined. that will determine the political majority of the new corporation.
The executive and the provincial committee have also been officially convened for June 7 to approve the lists of deputies to Congress, the Senate and the Provincial Council.
The provincial secretary general has referred to the result of the elections last Sunday and the new context that opens with the call for general elections for July 23.
The provincial leader has highlighted the fact that the party is strong and united, and has obtained more than a thousand councilors in the province, highlighting the importance that municipalism will have in the near future.
