Patricia Hernández has been re-elected as the General Secretary of the PSOE of Santa Cruz de Tenerife after receiving the support of 99.2% of the membership at the Municipal Assembly held at the La Cascada building in the Maritime Park. During this meeting, the membership also unanimously approved the management of the outgoing Municipal Executive Commission over the past three years.
The new local leadership, once again headed by Hernández, will include Laureano Pérez as president of the group, while Florentino Guzmán Plasencia and Raúl Alonso will take on the roles of Deputy General Secretaries for Political and Institutional Action, and Social Action, respectively. Andrés Martín Casanova will continue as the Organisational Secretary.
During the assembly, which took place under the motto “The Strength of Santa Cruz”, the socialist membership also supported 99.2% the proposal for representation of the PSOE of Santa Cruz in the Island Committee, headed by Amaya Conde. The process of organisational renewal is part of the schedule established by the Socialist Party at the federal level, which began last November with the 41st Congress held in Seville and has continued in the Canary Islands and Tenerife.
In her speech after re-election, Patricia Hernández described the result as “overwhelming” and highlighted “the lesson of unity when proposing to a public tired of an outdated project, lacking enthusiasm or ability to respond to people’s concerns”. “We have decided”, she emphasised, “not to put ourselves first, but to put the people, their proposals and their concerns”.
The Assembly was attended by and featured speeches from Nira Fierro, the Organisational Secretary of PSOE Canarias, and Tamara Raya, the General Secretary of PSOE Tenerife.
Patricia Hernández first assumed the General Secretary of the PSOE of Santa Cruz in 2013, following an assembly where four candidatures ran. Since then, she has managed to consolidate the leadership of socialism in Santa Cruz, which enabled her historic election as mayor of the capital in 2019, thus breaking with four decades of nationalist governments and winning the municipal elections in 2023.
