Guillermo Fernández Vara is not leaving politics. If there is a total collapse of Pedro Sánchez, some voices within the PSOE place him as the new Javier Fernández, that is, in the person of consensus in the ranks of the party to temporarily lead the organization until an extraordinary congress is called. The intention is that, from his experience and being a person who does not arouse misgivings in any of the sectors of the PSOE, he tries to sew up the wounds that, if they occur, would arrive between sanchismo and post-sanchismo.
The first step towards this has already been taken. The next legislature will be in Madrid. The Socialist Parliamentary Group has confirmed this Tuesday that it will propose the current secretary general of the Extremadura PSOE and former president of the Board for 12 years as a senator by autonomous designation in plenary session to be held this Thursday in the Assembly of Extremadura.
In this way, the baron from Extremadura will not return to his forensic position as announced the day after the regional elections, when in full mourning he declared the elections lost, considering that the agreement between PP and Vox for governability would be much easier of what then happened until the definitive agreement, weeks later and in the midst of a strong controversy, between María Guardiola and the formation of Santiago Abascal. A telephone call from Pedro Sánchez to Vara himself, after the president of the government brought forward the general elections that same Monday, made him back down.. Days later, when Guardiola even bet – after losing the presidency of the Assembly Table – for a probable electoral repetition, Fernández Vara himself presented his candidacy for the investiture of the Board, although the sum with United We Can did not give him for it .
What was clear to him, even before the elections, is that if he did not repeat his political cycle in his autonomous community as president of Extremadura, it would have ended. He was not going to lead the opposition, as he did, not without internal problems, when he was defeated by José Antonio Monago in 2011 and then reversed the situation and won again in 2015.
Vara, who has announced that he will go to live in Badajoz after leaving the official residence of the Presidency in Mérida on Monday, will also have to manage his succession within his party in Extremadura, which is expected to be a complicated replacement after 15 years to the front of it. With several candidates on the exit ramp, he has already stated that he would not like his successor to be chosen by a primary system, which is why he advocates a single consensus candidacy for a regional congress that is expected to take place next fall.. He even launched the following notice last week: “If someone tries to boss it, it is clear.”
The president of the Badajoz Provincial Council, Miguel Ángel Gallardo; the former Minister of Health, José María Vergeles; the president of the Assembly, Blanca Martín; the mayor of Mérida, Antonio Rodríguez Osuna; or Lara Garlito, deputy secretary general of the PSOE of Extremadura, are the main names that are being considered, to this day, for the succession.
PELAYO GORDILLO, FROM VOX, WILL ALSO BE AN AUTONOMOUS SENATOR
On the other hand, and as they had agreed in the investiture pact between PP and Vox for María Guardiola to become president of Extremadura, this Thursday it will also become official that Ángel Pelayo Gordillo, who was the candidate of Abascal's party in Extremadura, and who is a deputy in the Assembly, is the member of Vox who in turn holds the position of senator by autonomous designation, a position that the PP ceded to Vox so that the investiture agreement could be formalized.