The PSIB believes that "it has time" to announce Armengol's replacement: "Politics moves very fast"

PalmaIt was just two weeks ago that Francina Armengol resigned from leading the PSIB in the next regional elections and paved the way for her replacement. Secretary of State Rosario Sánchez is currently the only candidate for the party's primaries, which begin this Tuesday. Once she is ratified as the head of the list, the PSIB will have only 10 months to make her known. However, the party's organization secretary, Cosme Bonet, believes that "there is time": "In politics today, time goes very fast."

Bonet explained that Armengol has not taken a step aside until now "out of respect for this party and its procedures". "We have not strayed from the script and we have not been influenced, we have followed our own criteria," he said. This Tuesday begins the period for submitting candidacies for the candidate for the presidency of the Government, for the councils of Mallorca and Menorca, and for the mayorships of Palma and Calvià. The procedure will take place throughout the month of July and the deadline for submitting candidacies will be open until the 11th. Although the party apparatus has already positioned Sánchez for the parliamentary lists, Amanda Fernández for the Council of Mallorca, and Iago Negueruela for Palma, Bonet emphasized that last-minute surprises are not ruled out. The first round of voting will be on the 18th, and the second will be on the 25th.

Otherwise, the primary processes for Eivissa and Formentera and the councils will take place in September. Bonet defended that the primary process aims to "accelerate the political change" in the Islands in the face of the PP Government's management over the last three years. In this regard, he criticized the situation of the housing market, tourist saturation, and infrastructure collapse, and pointed to the Popular Party for "commodifying the territory".

In relation to the Federal Committee of the PSOE last weekend, in which Sánchez accounted for himself before his own party, Bonet defended that it concluded with a message of "unity" and that the voices critical of the president were already known.