Ferraz approves the lists of Cantabria to the Congress and Senate, headed by Pedro Casares and Secundino Caso

The PSOE Federal Committee held this Saturday in Ferraz has approved the lists with which the Socialists of Cantabria run for Congress and the Senate in the general elections on July 23, headed by Pedro Casares and Secundino Caso, respectively.

Faced with the changes introduced yesterday by the party's List Commission in the candidacies that some communities had sent it, those of Cantabria have not suffered any changes and the National Directorate has ratified the same names that were approved last Thursday by the Regional Committee held in Santander .

The general secretary of the PSOE of Cantabria, Pablo Zuloaga, has valued the celebration of an "important" Federal Committee, where what Spain is at stake is the advancement of the progressive policies that we socialists have been developing and that shape public services essential to continue growing in equality, generating economy and employment at the European vanguard".

This is precisely, according to Zuloaga, what the socialists of Cantabria are going to defend for the general elections on July 23, in which they come out "to win, to excite all of Cantabria with being part of the best future of Spain."

Some elections "for which the PSOE is already putting all its machinery into motion, knowing that we will provide more deputies and more senators to guarantee that sufficient majority for Pedro Sánchez to be the president of Spain," he confided.

The leader of the Socialists has reiterated the importance of "going out to the streets to convince the progressive majority of Cantabria", recalling that in the recent regional and municipal elections on May 28, the PSOE of Cantabria obtained 9,500 more votes than in those of 2019, rising 16.6%, "the highest growth that the socialists have had in all of Spain."

For this reason, he has defended that "this has to be the path, to continue adding support and gaining the confidence of the citizenry to win the elections on July 23."

In this sense, he reiterated that "only the PSOE is capable of assuming the challenges that lie ahead in Cantabria and Spain, because only the PSOE is a guarantee of strengthened and equal public services and because only the PSOE works for the well-being of the social majority of this country so that we all live better".

The list of the PSOE of Cantabria to the Congress is headed by the national deputy and general secretary of the PSOE in Santander, Pedro Casares, who repeats in the position, while Secundino Caso, acting mayor of Peñarrubia, will be the candidate for the Senate after Zuloaga will rule out the position as it is incompatible with that of regional deputy.

At number two on the list for Congress is the PSOE Organization Secretary, Noelia Cobo, also a regional deputy elected after the May 28 elections, a position she would have to resign if elected.

The candidacy is completed, in this order, with the general secretary of the PSOE de Castro Urdiales and acting councilor, Pablo Antuñano; the acting mayor of Limpias, María del Mar Iglesias; and the former mayor of Torrelavega and acting councilor, José Manuel Cruz Viadero.

As substitutes are Silvia Abascal, Luis del Piñal (former coordinator of Podemos in Cantabria and acting councilor of Santa Cruz de Bezana), Irene Lanuza Sergio Araujo and Carmen González Caballero.

In the Senate, after Secundino Caso, also president of the Spanish Rural Development Network, are the acting mayoress of Camargo, Esther Bolado, at number 2; and the Minister of Employment and Social Policies and acting deputy, Eugenia Gómez de Diego, at 3.

As alternates are the acting Minister of Economy, Ana Belén Álvarez; Gustavo García, César Aja, Mercedes Carrera, Rodrigo López and Alba Muro.

Both candidacies were announced on Thursday afternoon in the Executive Commission of the autonomous party, after the votes held by the local committees. The proposal was later approved in the Regional Committee, and today in the Federal Committee.