The PSC will attend the next municipal elections on May 28 with 615 candidacies, with 89 more compared to those registered in the last elections, in 2019 (526). This represents an increase of 17% that party sources attribute to the new phase of political “normalization” that Catalonia has entered after the years of the process. This is recognized by the Deputy First Secretary for Organization, Lluïsa Moret, who has celebrated that these figures are “a good sign” for the party’s electoral expectations, reinforced by “the good moment of the PSC brand” and the figure of the first secretary, Salvador Illa.
“Within the three big parties, we are the party that is growing the most”, Moret has valued. The PSC is the third formation that presents the most electoral lists in these elections, behind ERC and JxCat. Gone is the pothole that the party experienced in the years of the process, when of the 733 lists with which it attended in 2011 it went to 535 in 2015 and in 2019 to only 526.
With the 615 that they present for the 28-M, in the party they value the fact of having candidates in all the regional capitals and that they have increased their electoral offer, especially in traditional pro-independence strongholds, such as the Girona demarcation, where they present 15 candidacies more than in 2019. In the demarcation of Barcelona is where the offer increased the most (46 more lists), followed by that of Tarragona (25 more) and that of Lleida (three more).
Among the main municipalities where the PSC presents a new list compared to the previous elections are Torroella de Montgrà (Baix Empordà ), Sallent (Bages), Roda de Ter (Osona), Sant Antoni Vilamajor (Vallés Oriental), Arbúcies (Selva), Artés (Bages) and Agramunt (Urgell).
Added to the “symbol of normalization in the country” represented by these figures is the fact that “the PSC brand is in a very good moment, one of the best in its history”, they say in the match, thanks to the image projected by the first secretary of the party, Salvador Illa. In fact, these good prospects are confirmed in the surveys, according to the same sources.
This concurrence makes them present their electoral offer in 75% of the Catalan municipalities and before 95% of the population, they calculate, also increasing the female presence on the lists. The PSC is close to parity by having 3,529 women (47%) -3,968 men, 53%- on this year’s lists. In the case of the heads of the list, there has also been an increase of 2.13% in the presence of women, although they only represent 31.2% compared to 68.7% of men. In 2019 there were only 153 female list heads, but this year there will be 192.
As a curiosity, the PSC presents a list made up entirely of women, in Botarell (Baix Camp), a possibility that can only be contemplated, according to the law, in municipalities with less than 3,000 inhabitants, as is the case of this municipality.
Other curiosities also inhabit the electoral lists of the PSC, such as that of the oldest member of a candidacy who is José Fernández Soto, 96, and integrates the list of La Pobla de Segur (Lleida). The youngest is Adam Kharaz, who just turned 18 this month and is on the Socialist list in Vilaseca (Tarragona).
