Overview
- PSOE’s Organization Secretariat formally constituted a regional management commission on December 24 and appointed Government delegate José Luis Quintana as its president.
- The commission’s mandate is to keep party operations running, supervise internal primaries, and convene an extraordinary congress to elect a new regional executive.
- Quintana will front talks with PP leader María Guardiola on forming the Assembly of Extremadura and on the investiture process.
- The body includes eight vocales named by the party: María José Pulido, Gonzalo Romero, Carmen Yáñez, Pablo Iglesias Ordóñez, Ana María Fernández, José María Ramírez and Irene Pozas.
- Multiple outlets interpret the move as Ferraz tightening control to head off a PSOE abstention that could enable a PP-led government, while potential leadership contenders such as Álvaro Sánchez Cotrina, Blanca Martín and Antonio Rodríguez Osuna begin to position.