Overview
- Carlos Alberca, a councillor who was once Julio Millán’s close collaborator, declared a precandidacy to contest the PSOE nomination in Jaén this week.
- PSOE-A chief María Jesús Montero publicly endorsed Millán on Thursday and has privately signalled she does not want primaries in the only Andalusian capital the party governs.
- Millán renounced automatic re-appointment and asked the party to hold a ratifying primary, and he says he already has the local endorsements needed to formalize his bid.
- Party rules require challengers to gather roughly 15–20% of local militants’ endorsements by the September 16 deadline, a hurdle Socialist sources say Alberca may fail to clear.
- The outcome will shape Jaén’s candidate list, test provincial factional alignments tied to Juan Latorre and Ángeles Ferriz, and affect PSOE-A’s effort to hold the city ahead of May 2027 municipal elections.