The leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, was elected this afternoon by acclamation as first secretary and candidate for the 12-M elections in a placid congress held in Barcelona.
1,200 delegates voted by show of hands for Illa's appointment, who did not receive a single vote against.
Received with cries of
president, president,
the socialist has committed to opening a new stage “full of hope” in this post-process stage and has assured citizens that his goal will be to rescue the excellence of public services.
Illa is finalizing his executive that he will reinforce with the appointment of Núria Parlón, mayor of Santa Coloma, as spokesperson for the party to begin a mandate in which the socialists hope to be able to access the Government of the Generalitat.
With the crowd on its feet and supported by the leadership and the historic leaders of the party, Illa wanted to give solemnity to his appointment with a brief speech in which he stressed that this March 16 begins “a new future and a new political reality.” to improve the lives of all citizens.”
Without mentioning the fall of the budgets, the socialist has expressed his desire for the PSC to continue being the “calm, serene, respectful and plural force” and far from the “complaining and victimizing” Catalonia that “divides and "he wants to lift borders."
“Wherever you live, wherever you come from, whatever you think, whether you are right-wing, left-wing or center-based, federalist or independentist, whatever language you speak, whatever you feel, the first thing is going to be public services,” he stated.
Salvador Illa greets after being elected first secretary of the PSC, this Saturday during the second day of the XV Congress of the PSC.Quique García (EFE)
After the approval of the amnesty law, Illa gave clues in his speech about the main lines on which his campaign will be based just at a time when in Catalonia public services are upside down with pending works due to the drought. , prison officials upset over the murder of a worker, with the dismal results of the Pisa report and being at the bottom of renewable energy in Spain.
“We want to recover excellence in public services, in education, health, energy, infrastructure and mobility.
We want a Catalonia that makes itself heard not because it shouts louder,” he said, “but because it will be an example to follow for the excellence of public services.”
This Sunday, the delegates will approve the political presentation in which the emphasis is placed on deploying the Statute when considering the socialists who still have a long way to go and on a fairer financing system for Catalonia and solidarity with all of Spain.
Before the closing speech that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will give, the militancy will vote for the new executive that Illa wants to strengthen with a view to the possibility of strengthening the party if they end up governing the Generalitat.
Illa has proposed a body of a continuing nature in which María Lluïsa Moret, current president of the Barcelona Provincial Council, gains weight as number two and in which she grants a very relevant role to Parlón, who has absolute majorities in her municipality that has become impregnable.
The mayor was out of the front row of the party since she surprisingly resigned in 2016 to run for first secretary and after leaving the federal committee of the PSOE for rejecting 155. Parlón, who widely defeated the Republican Gabriel Rufián in the elections of May, until now assumed in the executive the security area that the socialists consider one of the priority legs to stop potential left-wing voters from leaning to the right.
Miquel Iceta, permanent delegate ambassador of UNESCO in Paris, has accepted Illa's proposal to repeat as president of the party while Meritxell Batet, former president of the Congress, will be named president of the National Council of the PSC.
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