The until now spokesperson for the PSC-Units parliamentary group in the Parliament, Alícia Romero, will be number two on Salvador Illa's list for the Catalan elections on May 12. This has been confirmed by La Vanguardia from socialist sources, who will also once again have the general secretary of Units per Avançar, Ramón Espadaler, as number three in the candidacy, followed by the deputy and secretary of education and vocational training Esther Niubó, who will occupy The fourth place.
In this way, Illa once again trusts Romero (Caldes d'Estrac, 1976) to accompany him on the electoral list for Barcelona with which the party will compete in the Catalan elections. A show of confidence on the part of the first secretary of the PSC in the parliamentarian who has carried the weight of the socialist group in the Parliament and who has piloted the negotiations of the formation with the rest of the groups as well as those that have allowed two budget agreements with the Government of Pere Aragonès. Romero climbs positions on the electoral list from the number six position in which he ran in the 14-F 2021 elections, and replaces the current senator Eva Granados.
For his part, Espadaler once again occupies a relevant place on the PSC list for 12-M by virtue of his party's renewed agreement with the formation of Salvador Illa, a political alliance that has extended since 2017, when the former minister Miquel Iceta will serve as the first secretary of the PSC. The signing of the agreement took place this Tuesday after Units per Avaçar ratified it before the Easter break.
The commitment to Niubó, who in the last elections ran as number 10 on the list for Barcelona, is interpreted as Illa's desire to give more importance to education policies, especially after the results of the Pisa report, which left a poor diagnosis in Catalonia. Also as an endorsement of the work of the representative specialized in this matter and that in the current legislature she has been spokesperson in the Paralement Education Commission.
Niubó is followed as number five by the first secretary of the Bureau of the Parliament, Ferran Pedret, who has also stood out as responsible for legal issues of the socialist parliamentary group. Pedret repeats as number five on the PSC list for Barcelona, as in 2021. As number six, the current deputy Rocío García, who in 2021 would run as number 16.
As for the rest of the provincial lists, the Catalan socialists do not present many changes. The heads of the list continue to be the same ones who participated in the last elections: Sílvia Paneque for Girona, Òscar Ordeig for Lleida and Rosa Maria Ibarra for Tarragona. The list of this last province is perhaps the one that presents the most novelties since the until now number two, Rubén Viñuales, current mayor of Tarragona, will give way to Alberto Bondesio, who already replaced Viñuales in the Parliament after the municipal elections of 28- M.
The party renews a total of a third of the names on the electoral lists in which respect for the decisions of the territorial delegations and the "experience" of parliamentarians who have been part of the so-called alternative government of the PSC, the group of parliamentarians, have prevailed. socialists who have supervised the management of the Catalan Executive by area.
Notable absences also stand out on the lists, such as those of parliamentary veterans such as Assumpta Escarp, until now second vice president of the Parliament, Jordi Terrades, and Gemma Lienas, a reference in the party in feminist policies.
