Overview
- Pedro Sánchez travels to Mérida to publicly endorse Miguel Ángel Gallardo, opening the PSOE pre-campaign for the December 21 Extremadura election.
- Gallardo was confirmed last week by the regional committee as the party’s candidate for the snap vote called by PP leader María Guardiola.
- He remains pending trial on allegations of prevarication and influence peddling over the 2017 hiring of his brother at the Badajoz provincial council.
- An exclusive El Mundo video from the committee meeting shows Cáceres leader Miguel Ángel Morales urging Gallardo to step aside and denouncing pressure from Madrid.
- Gallardo won the overall PSOE primaries but was rejected twice by militants in Cáceres, a vulnerability observers report Guardiola considered in advancing the election.