Overview
- Ferraz announced on December 24 that José Luis Quintana, the Spanish government's delegate in Extremadura, will preside over the regional party's Comisión Gestora.
- The commission assumes day-to-day organizational control and will convene and supervise internal procedures ahead of the extraordinary regional congress.
- PSOE named members to the body including María José Pulido Pérez, Gonzalo Romero Barba, Carmen Yáñez Quirós, Pablo Iglesias Ordóñez, Ana María Fernández Rodríguez, José María Ramírez Morán and Irene Pozas García.
- ABC reports the move is intended to avoid any abstention that could enable PP leader María Guardiola to form a government, framing the appointment as a tactical intervention by Ferraz.
- Quintana is a veteran regional figure who served as agriculture and public works counselor under Ibarra and Vara and was mayor of Don Benito, where his push for a merger with Villanueva de la Serena preceded his loss of the mayoralty in 2023.