Valencian Rebeca Torró, Secretary of State for Industry, will replace Cerdán as head of the PSOE's Organization Secretariat.

This Saturday, the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) will appoint Valencian Rebeca Torró Soler as the party's Organization Secretary, replacing Santos Cerdán, who resigned after the audio recordings that led to his indictment in the judicial case investigating kickbacks in the awarding of public works contracts were revealed.

Torró is the Secretary of State for Industry in the ministry headed by Jordi Hereu. The party will also appoint Anabel Mateos Sánchez as Deputy for Organization and Secretary of Territorial Coordination; Francisco J. Salazar Rodríguez as Deputy for Organization and Secretary of Analysis and Electoral Action; and Borja Cabezón as Deputy for Organization and Secretary of Transparency and Democratic Action and Transparency.

This is how the new structure of the party's Organization Secretariat will be, pending any changes that PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez will make to the Federal Executive Committee, some of which are motivated by "incompatibilities" with the position, according to party sources explained yesterday.

According to sources consulted by Servimedia, it is Vice President María Jesús Montero, not Sánchez, who is calling several members of the Executive Committee "one by one" to inform them that, following the Federal Committee meeting the party will hold this Saturday, they will no longer be members of this body.

Government sources confirm to Servimedia that the reason "is none other" than the incompatibility outlined in Article 3, Section 10, of the party's statutes, which states that "a member may only hold one executive organic position, unless it is inherent or derived from the main position or function, or one of them is serving on the Municipal, Local, or District Executive Committee." These sources insist that it "has nothing to do" with these individuals being "tainted with Cerdán," they assured this outlet in response to questions.

The statutes also state, as an exception, that, in all cases, holding a position on provincial, island, regional, national, or autonomous executive committees will be incompatible with being a member of the Federal Executive Committee. However, at the proposal of the General Secretariat, exceptions may be made, subject to a maximum of 10% of the members.

Thus, the party has not disclosed names but indicates that the number of those affected could be "between five and eight," as there could also be incompatibilities with private enterprise in some cases. Socialist sources explain that the Federal Congress held in December in Seville elected an Executive Committee, and months later, some of its members were ratified or appointed for the first time as general secretaries of their communities or provinces, meaning they could easily choose to remain in their territories, as could be the case with party spokesperson Esther Peña, who is general secretary of Burgos, or the new Secretary of Organization in Aragon, Manuela Berges.

However, based on the statutes, these same sources also point out that 10% of the members could combine both positions, which is why Vice President Montero herself, along with Ministers Pilar Alegría, the party's general secretary in Aragon, and Óscar Puente, the provincial leader in Valladolid, could remain on this body.

Montero also asked a group of female PSOE leaders if they could attend a meeting with Sánchez this Friday at 4:30 p.m. at Ferraz to discuss the measures the party will take in response to the devastating impact of the publication of recordings in which former minister José Luis Ábalos and his former advisor Koldo García discuss prostitutes.