Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, from the Workers’ Unity Collective (CUT) and mayor of Marinaleda (Seville) since 1979, is not going to run within the municipal elections on May 28, based on IU sources. The historic day laborer chief, with some well being issues, is 74 years outdated and has been serving as mayor for 44 years.
In Marinaleda, a municipality in Seville’s Sierra Sur, a bastion of the left, the final municipal elections of 2019 resulted within the victory of the re-election candidacy then headed by Sánchez Gordillo.
Specifically, the candidacy of Adelante Marinaleda by Sánchez Gordillo obtained 48.53 p.c of the electoral assist and 6 councilors, in comparison with the 5 achieved by Avanza, with 46.13 p.c of the assist, with which the veteran chief of the laborer motion as soon as once more retained energy.
Decide the substitute
In addition to his position as mayor, Sánchez Gordillo has been a deputy within the Andalusian Parliament between 1996 and 2000 and between 2008 and 2014.
The meeting of his formation in Marinaleda has but to carry a gathering, to be able to approve the designation of who will succeed him as candidate for mayor by the left-wing federation.