Pedro Sánchez sweeps Catalonia

Pedro Sánchez wipes number of guarantees in Catalonia

The former leader of the PSOE won supports from 6,058 to 14,322 which could suck the three candidates

El Periódico de Catalonia. see original

In previous primaries won only guarantees 1300, by 1971 it obtained Eduardo Madina

Roger PascualROGER PASCUAL

THURSDAY, May 4, 2017 - 14:25 EST

6058 Pedro Sánchez has collected endorsements in Catalonia for the primary to the general secretariat of the PSOE, according to data provided by his team. The number of supports obtained by the former leader socialist implies that collected nearly half of the guarantees it could gather and the other two candidates are clearly behind him, since in these internal elections can participate 14,322 members of the PSC. The team of Catalonia Susana Diaz has chosen not to provide information that is not closed and validated scrutiny. Patxi López has 500 signatures.

Sanchez received by Catalan media have been key to the socialist former leader has remained only 6113 supports Diaz in the whole of Spain. Neither was a surprise. Everyone had assumed that the PSC is Catalonia 'territory sanchista', a fact that has been demonstrated in various interventions that the former Secretary-General has done in different Catalan towns in recent weeks, where he met many more faithful than the other two candidates . In Barcelona, ​​for example, more than 3,000 people they support the Fabra i Coats, at a rally in which he defended the idea of ​​"nation" within a Catalan Spain understood as a "nation of nations."

Nothing to do with the other. In previous primaries, 2014, Sanchez could only gather endorsements 1305, by 1971 he then received his main rival, Eduardo Madina (the other contender, Jose Antonio Perez Tapias, stayed in 799). In those internal elections, although Sanchez was imposed in the whole of Spain and in the province of Barcelona, ​​Madina was the most voted in Catalonia overall.