The PSOE won the Popular Party in the last municipal elections, in May 2019, by more than one and a half million votes throughout Spain. Although he only managed to retain, among the six large capitals with more than 500,000 inhabitants, the mayor's office of Seville. Before the next appointment with the local polls on May 28, in Ferraz they assume that "it is very difficult to overthrow a mayor", unless he accumulates great wear and tear or has made serious management errors. But in Pedro Sánchez's headquarters they claim to have all these large cities in their electoral target, in some cases with "real options" to recover their mayoralties, and in others, at least, to strengthen themselves and soar.
With Barcelona, they insist, first of all. Despite admitting that the Catalan capital was always "very even", even in the days of Pasqual Maragall after the successful 1992 Olympics, Sánchez now trusts in the possibilities of Jaume Collboni to recover the first position for the PSC, as Salvador Illa already achieved in the regional elections in February 2021. Collboni, like the mayoress of Sant Boi de Llobregat, Llüisa Moret, will be two of the PSC candidates who will be given prominence by the municipal conference that the PSOE will hold in Valencia this weekend.
Precisely Valencia is another of the great capitals that Sánchez seeks to recover, with the candidacy of Sandra Gómez; as well as Zaragoza, with Lola Ranera, and even Malaga, with Dani Pérez. In the leadership of the PSOE they also take it for granted that Antonio Muñoz will retain the mayor's office of Seville, the jewel in the socialist municipal crown. The municipal policy secretary of Ferraz, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis, assured yesterday that precisely the local elections in Andalusia will represent a "resounding turning point" for the recovery of the PSOE in this community, which will also begin to mark "the decline" of the regional president, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, now with the controversy over Doñana that joins the protests against the "dismantling" of public health.
In the PSOE they also assure to face the 28-M as a turning point to close the way to the PP, who warn that it will only be able to gain local power thanks to the extreme right of Vox, and the change of political cycle in all of Spain promoted by Alberto Núñez Feijóo . Vitoria and Pamplona are other capitals in the electoral sights of the Socialists.
Even Madrid, where the former minister Reyes Maroto will seek to revive the PSOE against a mayor of the PP, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who warn that he is "very rundown."
