Overview

• The Femeval president formally presented his candidacy, pledging a "coral" leadership that maintains Salvador Navarro’s legacy while adapting the employers’ group to new demands.
• Navarro will not seek re-election and will leave the CEOE vice-presidency after the CEV vote in November, while retaining the chair of the CEOE Commission on Relations with the Cortes and the Senate.
• Lafuente says he will widen CEV’s focus to better represent SMEs and work more closely with chambers of commerce and AVE, alongside direct social dialogue with unions.
• Talks continue to assemble consensus provincial tickets, with Alicante identified as a longstanding friction point and conversations reported with Carmelo Martínez, Eva Blasco and César Quintanilla.
• Lafuente cites agreement with Navarro that an internal showdown was not worth the "electoral noise" and notes CEOE president Antonio Garamendi urged putting the institution above individuals.