The Valencian Rebeca Torró, new spokesperson for the PSOE after the resignation of Montse Mínguez

BarcelonaAfter the PSOE spokesperson, Montse Mínguez submitted her resignation this Friday due to the scandal that has been generated in recent days by her partner's real estate dealings, the socialists are already rebuilding their leadership. Mínguez's replacement will be the Valencian Rebeca Torró, who already held a relevant position within the party as organizing secretary and who will now combine it with that of the socialists' spokesperson. The change comes at a delicate time, in the middle of the electoral pre-campaign.

The decision was made by the PSOE's Federal Executive Committee before its Federal Committee meets this Saturday morning to ratify the electoral lists. In the same meeting, the socialists have designated the president of the PSOE, Cristina Narbona, as the new secretary of Studies and Programs and the until now deputy Javier Alfonso Cendón, as the new general secretary of the parliamentary group.

Torró will replace Mínguez after having already replaced Santos Cerdán as the PSOE's organizing secretary, one of the positions with the most organic power within the party. Torró (Ontinyent, 1981) began her political career in the Valencian Country, where she was Minister of Territorial Policy, Public Works and Mobility of the Generalitat. Her leap to Madrid was as Secretary of State for Industry, where she landed after resigning as socialist spokesperson in the Valencian Courts, a position in which she only served for five months.

Joint list for the Senate

Your role as a spokesperson will be important, especially during the election period, an election which has an increasingly defined scenario. Precisely, this Friday night, the PSOE, IU, Sumar, Compromís, Més Madrid, Chunta Aragonesista, and Batzarre have agreed to present unitary lists for the Senate. Added to this is the agreement between the socialists and Més – Esquerra Unida – Moviment Sumar in the four Balearic Islands and that of all progressive forces in La Gomera.

Under the name Senate of Progress, the coalition forces (PSOE and Broad Front) explain that the movement has the objective of preventing progressive votes from being lost in the Spanish upper house due to being divided. In a statement released this Friday night, they state that the agreement "is born from civil society" and they advocate for a "useful" Senate that "brings territories together instead of confronting them" and that dedicates its time to "improving laws and not to persecuting the political adversary".