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Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba and his entire team have thrown in the towel: the PSOE will hold an extraordinary congress on July 19 and 20. This Sunday's electoral failure in the European elections has changed the internal calendar that included primaries in November and the federal Executive has decided to begin the renewal immediately and without the participation of Rubalcaba. The defeat has exceeded the most negative expectations and has meant the greatest loss of votes in the history of the PSOE , with a drop of nine MEPs and 15.4 points compared to the European elections of 2009. It only obtained 23% of the votes. 25-M. From that extraordinary congress in July, a leadership will emerge in which Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba will no longer be present, who has confirmed that he will not appear in the primaries that will later elect the new leader of the party. Some plans that he already communicated some time ago to former president Felipe González, Elena Valenciano and Óscar López . Decided last night to call the Extraordinary Congress However, socialist sources have confirmed to El Confidencial Digital that the decision to call an extraordinary congress for the month of July was made last night by Rubalcaba after the poor results achieved in the European elections. The general secretary, they explain, did not want to present his resignation as a resignation.
His objective was “not to leave the party upside down” just before the elections and he preferred to remain at the helm until a new leader of the PSOE was elected. He has described the results as “unmitigatedly bad” The Federal Committee of Phone Number List the PSOE debated this morning how to deal with the worst result in the history of the party. Rubalcaba has accepted the defeat as “a very bad result” , just as the candidate and deputy secretary general, Elena Valenciano, did last night. The socialist leader, during his press conference after the meeting of the Federal Executive Commission in Ferraz, described the electoral results as “unmitigatedly bad” , despite the rise of the left-wing vote in Spain. The new leadership will decide the date of the primaries The doubt is the primaries . If they are held after the conclave or if they are already ruled out given the limited time left for the next electoral call, the regional and municipal elections in May of next year. In any case, Rubalcaba has assured that it will be the new leadership that will decide the calendar for the internal elections that will elect the PSOE candidate for the Presidency of the Government. He has also declared that he will continue in his position and that while he is general secretary he will continue to serve as such " until the party decides who replaces me ." About my personal future, time will have to talk about it.”Elena Valenciano and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba arrived in Ferraz before eight in the afternoon.
The first results collected by Óscar López predicted a less negative result for the PSOE. After the defeat was confirmed, the candidate appeared, privately, devastated by the electoral debacle. The general secretary of the PSOE was one of the first to arrive in Ferraz, although he was not seen all night. Before 8:00 p.m. he entered the Elena Valenciano party headquarters. They both waited, in the office on the fourth floor, for the final results to be known. They were accompanied by the Secretary of Organization and coordinator of the campaign, Óscar López , the Secretary of Institutional Relations, Antonio Hernando , the Secretary for the EU , Juan Moscoso , and the Secretary of Social Policy, Trinidad Jiménez . They did not expect such a resounding defeat. All of them were attentive to the data they were receiving. In addition to the information sent by the Interior, Óscar López was already receiving reports from polling stations throughout Spain . The number three of the party was, in a huddle with journalists, optimistic: “Things are going well, we're holding on.” Elena Valenciano ended up very touched Although everything indicated that the PSOE would lose narrowly , the final results, which gave the socialists 14 seats, 9 less than in 2009, were a huge blow for the federal executive. Party leaders, who were present yesterday on the fourth floor of Ferraz, privately assured that "Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba was one of the most complete ." The general secretary, "due to his experience and career," maintained his style and preferred not to give big messages to your team. The one who did end up “sunk” was Elena Valenciano .