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PSOE Backs Gallardo for Extremadura Vote as Sánchez Plans Mérida Rally, Vox Yet to Name Leader

An early vote over a budget standoff has compressed the race, drawing direct intervention from party chiefs.

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El líder de Vox en Extremadura, Ángel Pelayo Gordillo

Overview

  • Extremadura votes on December 21 after regional president María Guardiola advanced the election citing a budget blockade.
  • The PSOE’s regional bodies have ratified Miguel Ángel Gallardo as candidate, even as he is under judicial processing in a case tied to the hiring of the prime minister’s brother.
  • Internal dissent surfaced at a PSOE Regional Committee meeting, where several voices from Cáceres urged Gallardo to step aside before party officials announced his ratification.
  • Pedro Sánchez is scheduled to appear with Gallardo at a public event in Mérida on November 5 at 19:00 at Hotel Las Lomas.
  • Vox says its lead candidate will be decided by the party’s National Executive, which has not met, while Santiago Abascal opens the party’s pre-campaign with a public event in Cáceres on Monday at 18:30.