Andalusian Elections
The big parties turn to the campaign for elections that will mark the 2023 electoral cycle, when regional, local and general elections are held
There is one week left for Andalusia to hold elections to which the parties attach enormous importance. What happens on June 19 will have a clear impact on the mood with which they will face the new electoral cycle, the municipal and regional elections in the spring of 2023 and the general elections months later. The implication of the national leaders became evident yesterday.
The popular ones arrive at the halfway point of the campaign with fear that the polls, very favorable, will cause a relaxation in their voters that will frustrate the possibility of a government alone, without Vox.
The Socialists trust in a mobilization that at least leads Juan Espadas to improve the result of his predecessor, Susana Díaz. And Yolanda Díaz hopes for a result that does not tarnish the start of her “listening” process.
Pedro Sanchez (PSOE)
Sánchez accuses the PP of using the crisis with Algeria to attack Spain
Sánchez, together with a sympathizer in Malaga. /
Pedro Sánchez traveled to the south this weekend to show off his national management. He did it in Malaga, bastion of the PP in Andalusia. He not only boasted about the management from Madrid during the last four years, but also about the progress achieved, he assured, for the Andalusians under the different socialist administrations. «We did not do everything, but the best and greatest advances in Andalusia have come from the hand of the PSOE. Others have done nothing neither in the opposition nor now from the Government, “said Sánchez at a rally that he shared with his regional candidate, Juan Espadas, in the town of Malaga.
The head of the Executive came to accuse the Popular Party of treason: “If a third country pressures Spain and the EU supports Spain, they support the third country that pressures us,” he said in reference to the crisis with Algeria.
Sánchez is aware that, at least, he must save the furniture in an autonomy that will be essential for his survival in Moncloa. As an example, in the last general elections, the PSOE obtained 25 deputies for 15 of the PP. With these numbers, Núñez Feijóo would have it more than complicated in his national project. And the same thing will happen to the PSOE candidate without the support of Andalusians.
Alberto Nunez Feijoo (PP)
«The EU has to come to fix the destruction of the PSOE»
Former Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who was received in Córdoba by bagpipers during the atypical heat wave in June, attacked Sánchez for the diplomatic crisis with Algeria. “The European Union had to come to fix our damage, that is telling the truth,” he said. “We are the Spaniards,” he added, “the ones who are going to pay for the effects of Sánchez’s mismanagement of foreign policy.” Absolute national key, more than Andalusian.
The leader of the PP played this Saturday with two decks. On the one hand, that of the ace offered to Juanma Moreno as Chairman of the Board for the second time in a row. And this time also as the most voted candidate, something that did not happen, not even remotely in 2018 against Susana Díaz. On the other hand, the former Galician president savors that a victory in the historic socialist Andalusia will catapult him to Moncloa once Sánchez presses the electoral button at the national level.
It is no coincidence either that the president of the PP gives Moreno free rein at the regional level while he is reinforced as the new leader of the popular. If the Andalusian candidate avoids bringing up the acronym of the PP, Feijóo settled “that if it were pufos, the PSOE would be many years without governing Andalusia and many more without governing Spain.”
Yolanda Diaz (Add)
Díaz starts the way to try to show unity on the left
The project of the great leftist coalition that Vice President Yolanda Díaz is trying to launch took a step forward in Andalusia this Saturday. Her message was clear: “I do not resign myself.” Of course, it is not that it gave more clues.
After the first week of the campaign in which Díaz remained silent in response, number 3 of the Coalition Executive attended an event to support his candidate, Inmaculada Nieto, belonging to the United Left.
Díaz plays his first litmus test with the Por Andalucía coalition, formed in the midst of a thousand personal quarrels and reproaches between the forces of the left, of which irreconcilable leaderships such as those of Íñigo Errejón and Pablo Iglesias form part. The good news for Nieto and Díaz is the renewed spirit of friendship of this left that, yes, is yet to be confirmed. Yesterday’s big event in Andalusia was attended by the leader of Podemos Ione Belarra or the general secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), Enrique Santiago. All of them have tried to give an image of unity in a coalition that has deteriorated year after year since Iglesias became the favorite in the polls back in 2014. Díaz is now trying to convince a broad front to the left of the PSOE is possible .
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