The more than 300 socialist militants will elect, through a process of primaries, "one militant one vote", who they say will be the next Mayor or Mayor of Lorca as of next May 26.
The Secretary of Organization of the Socialist Group of Lorca, José Luis Ruiz Guillén has announced that, by agreement of the Municipal Executive Committee of the PSOE of Lorca, is approved the primary calendar for the election of the candidate / to the Mayor of the municipality of Lorca for the municipal elections of 2019.
The socialist responsible stresses that again, the Lorca socialist militancy, who will decide with his vote the candidate or socialist mayor of Lorca, and who will be the person who will lead the political project of the PSOE for our municipality;
a project adds- in which the Socialist Party in Lorca as a whole, has been working for the last 3 years.
The militants have the word again, "they and only they", Ruiz Guillén emphasizes-, without impositions of any kind or anyone.
Regarding the calendar, the socialist responsible informs that the deadline for submission of pre-candidacies will be from September 3 to 6, and the collection of endorsements from 7 to 14 thereof, with September 18 being the definitive proclamation of the precandidates.
In this sense, Ruiz Guillen points out that, if the circumstance exists that there was only one candidate who has gathered the necessary guarantees, he / she would be proclaimed a candidate that same day.
In the case add- that there would be 2 or more candidates, a period of Information Campaign will be opened between September 19 and 28 and the Voting Day on September 30, in the first round if there were more than 2 candidates / as or only in case of only 2. If it was finally necessary to make a second round, this would be on October 7, he explains.
So far, says Ruiz Guillén, the Secretary General of the Lorca socialists and spokesman of the socialist municipal group Diego José Mateos, is the only militant who has expressed his intention to present his pre-candidacy, which can choose to remember- any of the most of 300 socialist militants.
To conclude, the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE of Lorca has encouraged Lorca socialist militancy to get involved in this "exciting and necessary" primary process, with which we and the socialists continue to give example of participation and internal democracy, far ahead of the rest of political parties, that although they try it, they do not manage to imitate.
A process that, says Guillen Ruiz, will be elected who, in May 2019, will receive the majority confidence of citizenship so that once again there is a Mayor or Mayor of the PSOE in front of the City of Lorca.
Source: PSOE Lorca