The Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE held this Saturday in Ferraz has approved the lists with which the Socialists of Cantabria run for Congress and the Senate in the general elections on July 23.
Faced with the changes introduced on Friday by the party’s List Commission in the candidacies that some communities had sent it, those of Cantabria have not suffered any changes and the National Directorate has ratified the same names that were approved last Thursday by the Regional Committee held in Santander.
Thus, the national deputy and general secretary of the PSOE in Santander, Pedro Casares, will repeat as head of the list to the Congress of Deputies, which he already led in 2019, while Secundino Caso, acting mayor of Peñarrubia, will be the candidate for the Senate.
At number two on the list for Congress is the PSOE Organization Secretary, Noelia Cobo, also a regional deputy elected after the May 28 elections, a position she would have to resign if elected.
The candidacy is completed, in this order, with the general secretary of the PSOE de Castro Urdiales and acting councilor, Pablo Antuñano; the acting mayor of Limpias, María del Mar Iglesias; and the former mayor of Torrelavega and acting councilor, José Manuel Cruz Viadero.
As substitutes are Silvia Abascal, Luis del Piñal (former coordinator of Podemos in Cantabria and acting councilor of Santa Cruz de Bezana), Irene Lanuza Sergio Araujo and Carmen González Caballero.
In the Senate, after Secundino Caso, also president of the Spanish Rural Development Network, are the acting mayor of Camargo, Esther Bolado, at number 2; and the Minister of Employment and Social Policies and acting deputy, Eugenia Gómez de Diego, at 3.
As alternates are the acting Minister of Economy, Ana Belén Álvarez; Gustavo García, César Aja, Mercedes Carrera, Rodrigo López and Alba Muro.
Both candidacies were announced on Thursday afternoon in the Executive Commission of the autonomous party, after the votes held by the local committees. The proposal was later approved in the Regional Committee, and today in the Federal Committee.
