The president of the Diputación de Barcelona, Lluïsa Moret, will be promoted to Salvador Illa's number two at the congress that the PSC will hold this weekend in Barcelona, according to El Periódico and confirmed by La Vanguardia.
The mayor of Sant Boi de Llobregat will also be elected as deputy first secretary of the Catalan socialists, although as deputy first secretary of Organization and Electoral Action she already acted as Salvador Illa's right-hand woman.
Therefore, the appointment of Moret as Illa's right-hand man in the party apparatus is not a surprise, but a "logical" appointment given the trust that the PSC leader placed in Moret since he assumed the leadership of the party when He relieved Miquel Iceta. But there will be more changes in the leadership of the party that will not be revealed until the 15th ordinary congress of the socialist party begins this Friday, in which Illa will once again be elevated as first secretary.
In this conclave, an executive committee that governs the party since December 2021 will be renewed, which has Miquel Iceta as president, the mayor of L'Hospitalet Núria Marín as vice president, Illa as first secretary and Moret as deputy first organizational secretary, but which also has in its second echelon a group of important leaders, such as the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni; the mayor of Sabadell, Marta Farrés; the speaker in the Parliament, Alicia Romero and the former president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet.
The appointment of Moret as deputy first secretary of the party suggests that Illa will not only make some "tweaks" in the executive, according to organizational sources, but will also change the organizational chart, to bring it closer to that which existed during José Montilla's time as leader of the party. PSC, which had Iceta as deputy first secretary.
Moret has increased his weight in the PSC with Illa at the helm. Last March 28, the mayor of Sant Boi revalidated the absolute majority that she had in her municipality and as a result of those elections she was elected president of the Provincial Council thanks to an agreement with ERC, the commons and two independent deputies assigned to Junts . That controversial movement allowed the socialists to maintain control of the public body that Núria Marín led to date thanks to an agreement with the post-convergents.
Trained in clinical psychology, she began her professional work in her municipality as a volunteer in the first women's care service in Sant Boi, where she served victims of sexist violence, and combined it with a local drug addiction service. She joined the PSC in 2001, began her political career as a councilor six years later, and in 2014 she assumed the mayoralty that she has held since then.
