PSOE Marbella y San Pedro

His appointment had the approval of all party organs, but has now become effective after its ratification by the provincial executive. Jose Bernal is now the Socialist Party's official candidate for mayor of Marbella for the municipal elections of 2011.

- How has received his official appointment?

"It's a tremendous satisfaction. Although already supposed to be a candidate, receiving the unanimous by groups of Marbella and San Pedro Alcántara shows that we are in a common project in which I am so wrapped because everybody sees that I am the person that I have to lead. This initially may seem trivial, it is very important if we consider that in the history of the PSOE in Marbella always had missed or not reached unanimous agreement on who should head the list. We have taken a giant step. Furthermore, with regard to groups of Marbella and San Pedro, who also have a history of controversy between them, we are currently experiencing a sweet moment. Ahead of the elections, and just the opposite of what happened in previous elections, we start in the best possible conditions for almost a year earlier.

"He had the backing of the party, from the federal committee down.

"Yes, but that support has always been. Here are a candidate because you put the grounds or because it puts the party leadership. I do what I have to feel proud of is that the party's grassroots have wanted to be the candidate. For me the important thing is that I look with favor neither the federal nor regional, but the people who composed my party. This time we were the underdogs who have chosen.

"The situation is very different from three years ago.

"Yes, three years ago, seven years ago, when imposed on a candidate who did not want the militants, and eleven years ago, when the group of Marbella did not reach the 80 militants. The situation is very different and we have built together, which awakens us great hope for the future.

- Are there deadlines for drawing up the manifesto?

"We've given some hints of the lines of government for this project, which goes beyond the PSOE. It is a project of citizenship. We will develop a program based on the demands of citizens, because we understand also that he can solve the problem is who suffers. We want the citizens to give us lines that programa.Haremos a major government program to Marbella and San Pedro and individual programs, because the reality is that Marbella Marbella make many realities. We can do the same program to meet the demands of the Plaza de Toros and the urbanization of Puerto Banús, because, although in general issues coincide, in particular issues are completely opposite.

- And the electoral list?

"The we will develop gradually, in the same way that the candidate has gone through a consensus. But negotiating a consensus on which to sit there until someone comes choice. The consensus is acquired when all the world is clear who the most appropriate. We estimate that the list will be made early next year and we're going to find more marbellera list and sampedreña of socialist history and, in turn, with the longer list prepared in academic work and who has never submitted the PSOE the municipality.

- Is it realistic in order to obtain the mayor of Marbella?

"Absolutely. But the aim is not to the council. That was the goal of Ángeles Muñoz. Our goal is to govern for sampedreños marbelleros and the next four years and get the mayor is a way for us to fulfill the ultimate objective is to recover the Marbella we should never lose and the quality of life for marbelleros and sampedreños.

"This has to excite the existing socialist grounds in the city.

"Let's get all the votes are in Marbella socialist and have no confidence in the socialist project in past elections. But the big goal is to enthuse people of Marbella, whatever the ideology they have. I am ambitious and want the vote to all citizens, not only of the socialists. As secretary general of the PSOE represent the socialist mayor of Marbella but I have to be mayor of all, which I have to develop a program that attempts, in so far as possible, to excite all citizens regardless of ideological position they have.

- What feedback has been received by the electorate?

"I find the excitement in the street. Walk around Marbella and feel the warmth of the people. Currently it is very difficult for any team representative can walk PP government with the freedom that I walk through the Marbella of life, of my life. And the first thing that moves people from the street is the clear rejection of a mayor who at the time, when he ran for election, was the most populist of the world and is now the most distant person that exists in the municipality of Marbella .