Pedro Sánchez and Juan Espadas appeal to socialist “pride” and recall that Andalusia has been “the progressive bastion” that the rest of Spain looked at “with envy” to try to prevent the flight of voters to the PP and get their voters out of apathy or resignation
“They call it sanchismo and it is the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party.” With a full mouth and with all the words. This is how Pedro Sánchez sounded at this Sunday’s rally in Almería, when the Andalusian PSOE sees how Juan Manuel Moreno’s PP has taken away each of the flags with which it has dominated the political scene in Andalusia for so many years. Two data from the survey by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) last week have wounded socialist pride. The Andalusians have stopped seeing the PSOE as the party that best defends the interests of his community. A not insignificant percentage of socialist voters approve the management of the Moreno government and even say that they could vote for him. Two pieces of information that seem to have served to touch once and for all the damaged self-esteem of the PSOE with enough precision so that the party turn around and go on the attack.
On the second day of the electoral campaign around June 19 and with that slap that the CIS has given the PSOE in the face, Juan Espadas and Pedro Sánchez went up to Cuevas de Almanzora (Almería) before a massive rally, with some 2,700 people, according to the organization, to appeal to the pride of the PSOE, to defend “the treasure & rdquor; of the socialists, to contrast data and figures to the message of the PP, to proclaim that it is the PSOE “the party that has brought all good things to Andalusia and Spain”. “It’s okay & rdquor ;, they said in the private chats of socialist militants. “The most round meeting of Swords to date & rdquor ;, they added for El Periódico de España.
The PP, which is launched and with everything in its favour, has a clear strategy in Andalusia. At each rally, the candidate Juan Manuel Moreno directly addresses the socialists who are disenchanted or installed in abstention to ask for their support. That’s why they want to conquer his “sufficient majority”. The PSOE to date preferred to avoid this reality by focusing on the fact that voting for the PP meant ultimately putting the extreme right of Vox in the Government. Not anymore. The Socialists made it clear yesterday that the electoral enemy is only one: the Popular Party. It seems obvious but until this Sunday in Almería the messages had not been so clear.
The candidate Juan Espadas focused on the visits of Alberto Núñez Feijoo in Andalusia. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the management of his Executive, with the employment figure as the protagonist, and on paper against the opposition of the PP. “The presidents of the PP do not give one, Pedro. Feijóo comes here to say that the socialists have to Vote for your Juanma. No, no, the socialists do not vote for the right, no socialist votes for the PP, They are wrong & rdquor ;, Swords said. “The party that best defends the interests of Andalusia is the PSOE”, “Andalusia has always been a progressive bastion that we have looked at with envy from the rest of Spain & rdquor ;, proclaimed Sánchez.
The PSOE candidate attacked Moreno, whom he accused of living “taking credit for other people’s merits & rdquor ;, insisting that it is the socialists who defend “social policies, public services and employment & rdquor ;. Recalling that all the leaders of the PP, (Mariano) Rajoy, (Pablo) Casado and (José María) Aznar “screw up every time they talk about Andalusia and disrespect them & rdquor ;. Ensuring that no matter how much the PP talks about “a green revolution & rdquor; the PSOE is the only one that has defended the environment in Andalusia and the protection of its natural parks, calling on women to go out and vote to stop “a stale, archaic, black and white right wing & rdquor ;. “Don’t trust them & rdquor ;, Swords warned. In short, disputing all the flags that Moreno’s PP have been able to take without complexes: Andalusianism, the defense of public services, the environment or equality and feminism, and which were previously banned for the right in Andalusia.
There was a time when the caravans of the Andalusian PSOE were a balm. The presidents slept until siesta. A couple of acts a day and guaranteed victory. It was almost enough for them to sit down and wait for election day to reap an absolute majority. Those were the days when the PP was desperate without finding the spring to win in Andalusia and they stirred using a phrase by Alfonso Guerra, which by the way the former vice president has never admitted as his own: “If the PSOE puts a goat, the goat wins & rdquor;. Those times are long gone. Then there was also always a leader of the national PP who ruined the party’s strategy in Andalusia and gave part of the campaign to the PSOE, the fire friend that hurt the Andalusians and they said that the children studied in barracks, thrown by fire or that this was a subsidized society of “pitas, pitas & rdquor ;. That has already passed into history. Now it is the PP that commands and dominates in Andalusia and the PSOE that does not find the record.
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That is why the socialists are having serious problems go back to being what they were in this community they ruled 37 years without interruption. They cannot just claim their inheritance because the ere case, a corruption fraud of more than 680 million public euros that has condemned the leadership of their governments, including two former presidents, turns against them. It is the first electoral campaign in the history of autonomous Andalusia that from the opposition. They still have to sell the achievements of the Government of Spain but that is not easy either. Surveys such as the one by the Center for Andalusian Studies (Centra) have insisted on making it clear for several installments that the assessment of the Government of Sánchez in Andalusia is dismal despite historical transfers of money to the community and social policies that clearly benefit Andalusians such as the Interprofessional Minimum Wage or ERTE. Everything positive remains to the credit of the PP in the Board and everything negative remains to the PSOE in the Government of the nation, according to the qualitative results of the polls. The pacts with the independentistas of ERC or Bildu outrage the Andalusians, in addition, and it is what the right most jelly. The PSOE has been more involved in its renewal and its internal wars than in dismantling Moreno as president.
The socialists are showing signs that they have understood what they have to combat. Sánchez displayed the historical data on job creation despite the pandemic and the war. He wondered why the PP is happy about those figures in Andalusia, where it governs and takes credit, and says that “they are made up in Spain & rdquor ;. He called not to fall “into the trap & rdquor; to show that the PP Government is “inevitable & rdquor ;, he insisted that “the party that best defends Andalusia is the PSOE & rdquor ;. Only once did he mention that “the votes of the right and the extreme right are interchangeable & rdquor; but he refined with figures, 1,000 million investment in Almería compared to 50 during Rajoy’s stage, and he put heart and “pride” into it. The militants responded. What is not known is whether it is too late for those who have always been socialist voters in Andalusia to respond and now, according to all the polls, they are not or do not know what they are going to choose.