Overview
- Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano resigned on Monday from his posts as delegado del Gobierno in Ceuta and as secretary general of the PSOE in the city, saying he had faced a campaign of harassment and false attacks.
- The PSOE national executive appointed a Comisión Gestora on September 29, led by Sandra María López Cantero with vocales Pablo Núñez Díaz, Mercedes Vega Pérez and Kauzar Laasri Mohamed and represented by Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis.
- Ferraz said the Gestora’s mandate is to guarantee the party’s normal functioning in Ceuta and to organize an extraordinary congress that will choose new leadership and the PSOE candidate for the May 2027 elections.
- Polling pressure drove the intervention: a late‑August Sigma Dos survey for El Mundo projected the PSOE could fall from six seats and about 21% in 2023 to roughly 5.6% and at most one seat, a shift that would hand advantage to the incumbent PP regional president Juan Jesús Vivas.
- The leadership collapse traces back to the chaotic migrant crossings on July 30–31 that brought more than 70,000 people into Ceuta and deepened local divisions, leaving residents and party members uncertain about services, security and who will lead the city’s socialist ticket.