It reveals that before the Federal Committee, the President of the Junta de Andalucia already had shown him unequivocally their support. Meets with thousand militants of the Andalusian Socialist Party to hear their proposals. Search for props and ideas for future political programme of primary candidate. The first Vice-President of the Government, Interior Minister and likely socialist candidate to the Executive Presidency in the forthcoming general elections, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, has wanted to make it clear in Seville that he has always felt very loved and appreciated by the PSOE and that, in fact, its general Secretary and Chairman of the Board, Jose Antonio Grinan, already showed him, before the meeting of the Federal Committee, unequivocally their support. Perez Rubalcaba has started in Seville with a meeting with more than a thousand militants of the PSOE its round of contacts with the party cadres in the face to the open process for the election of the candidate for the Presidency of the Government in the forthcoming general elections.
In said encounter, has been behind closed doors, he has been accompanied by Jose Antonio Grinan and members of the Regional Executive of the PSOE. Asked about if it has always had clear support from Jose Antonio Grinan that he chose to succeed Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as candidate, Perez Rubalcaba has expressed strongly has it absolutely clear. Supported by fact Grinan, has revealed that prior to the meeting of the Federal Committee that endorsed him as a candidate in the primaries, spoke with very few people, one of them Jose Antonio Grinan, with whom he discussed this subject thoroughly taking into account their triple status as Secretary general of the PSOE, Chairman of the Board and as a friend. With respect to the fact that the meeting with militants has been behind closed doors, Rubalcaba said in these meetings has no intention to talk, but to listen to activists, which in all likelihood will be expressed with more ease and freedom if they are behind closed doors. For the militants am Rubalcaba and I want to spend to be Alfredo, has sentenced to time which has justified that you have chosen Seville that is MP for a constituency Andalucian, Cadiz, and in that has always felt very loved by all members of the Andalusian PSOE, which is the most important Federation of Spain. I hope the strength of the South after insist that has always felt very well Treaty and wanted by militants of the Andalusian PSOE, indicated that now waiting for them force.
I hope the strength of the South, the most important Federation, which justifies their election results in its history, that move me, who communicated it to me, that pay me, has expressed. Perez Rubalcaba said that these encounters with the party cadres, it intended to soak up what the militants feel, what moves them citizenship and, above all, thank you for the work that always perform to dnder Socialist policies in complicated situations. Also, has estimated that reflection has to be born a political project to recover the confidence of the Spaniards in the forthcoming general elections. In his view, one of the objectives of the Conference policy must be bring solutions to problems such as unemployment. Source of the news: “I’m Rubalcaba and want to become Alfredo for militants”