One of the first decisions that the new Assembly of Extremadura will have to adopt, once constituted in mid-January, after the elections of December 21, will be to approve the replacement of former president Guillermo Fernández Vara as autonomously appointed senator. … A position to which, as ABC learned, the former secretary general of the Socialists of Extremadura, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, aspires, for which the federal leadership pushed him to resign 24 hours after the closing of the polls in the last elections.
PSOE sources at the highest level admit that “there has been talk” of appointing Gallardo to this new position. He himself, according to these same sources, would have transferred, as part of the negotiations with Ferraz to make his departure a reality, his desire to occupy the seat left empty by Fernández Vara in the upper house. A possibility which exists since, after his resignation due to the poor results obtained at the polls, the former candidate for regional presidency did not renounce his record as a deputy, an essential condition.
If this scenario comes true, Ferraz does not see with bad eyesand would allow the main loser of the Extremadura elections to substantially improve his monthly income, the lawsuit filed in the Badajoz court against Miguel Ángel Gallardo and David Sánchez, brother of the president of the government, would take a 360-degree turn. Both are awaiting an oral trial which was initially scheduled to be held at the Provincial Court at the beginning of February and which was finally postponed to the end of May, after the judge responded to various requests from the lawyers involved in the case, who highlighted the impossibility of attending the first proposed date due to previous charges to be dealt with.
Now, if Ferraz and Gallardo finally reach an agreement for him to take a seat in the House on Bailén Street, The case would go from the TSJ of Extremadura to the Supreme Courtit is therefore the superior court of last resort which would be responsible for judging or not, following a request addressed to the Senate, the socialist leader and David Sánchez.
For now, as legal sources explain to ABC, this would involve a slowing down the processso that under no circumstances would the oral trial scheduled for this first semester begin on these dates. Something that would not only benefit Gallardo’s political and procedural future, which could continue to raise funds from the public for longer, but which would also make it easier for Sánchez to reach the 2027 elections without a possible conviction of his brother.
At the PSOE of Extremadura, we recognize that “the main obsession” of the party’s general secretary until last week was to “set the judicial tone”. Delay the trial as much as possiblein which he will be asked to be disqualified from any public office, is essential for Miguel Ángel Gallardo. While he manages to postpone the start of the trial, the former mayor of Villanueva de la Serena and former president of the Provincial Delegation of Badajoz, where the crime under investigation was allegedly committed, will be able to continue to collect from the public treasury, a privilege that he will lose if he is found guilty.
The manager agreed with Ferraz
Gallardo and Ferraz negotiated the departure of the former leader of Extremadura early Monday morning last week, before the meeting of the Federal Executive. The objective was that the former secretary general of Extremadura, who suffered a major electoral disaster, “understood that he had to leave” without either Moncloa or Ferraz verbalizing it in public. After a sometimes “tense” negotiation, since Miguel Ángel Gallardo opposed a certain resistance to your walkeven if he did not benefit from the support of either the national or regional management, an agreement was reached for the creation of a manager with profiles similar to the one who resigned. During this meeting, the candidate put on the table his request to be senator.
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