The setting chosen to announce the date of the Andalusian elections was not the Malaga museum consecrated by the Andalusian Government to the legacy of Pablo Picasso, who went so far as to say that his Communist Party card was “the logical consequence” of his life and his work. After the weekly meeting of the Governing Council was held in this art gallery, the president Juanma Moreno an emergency procedure was not taken out of his thoughtful top hat to activate the call for elections for June 12. From now on, the two options between which the holding of the elections will be debated will be those that offer on the 19th and 26th of the month in which summer breaks. And of these two, the one on the last Sunday in June is the most likely, after what Juanma Moreno pointed out with insinuations that practically deactivated that Sunday the 19th in which there will be numerous Corpus Christi celebrations.
When asked if it was the last, penultimate or penultimate Council of Government, the president said that it will not be the last Council of Government, nor the penultimateThis would leave the dates on which to call the polls on Monday, May 2 and Tuesday, May 3, for the last of the most viable dates in June: Sunday 26.
Regarding the possibility that June 19 and 26 are the only possible dates, Moreno pointed out that I wasn’t going to say “neither peep” of none of them. And she amplified the mystery by suggesting that it does not have to be a Sunday -as Isabel Díaz Ayuso already did in the Community of Madrid- because “it can also be a Friday or a Saturday on dates when it is hot”.
In addition, with this and other details Moreno came to make it clear that the Andalusian elections will be in June and he didn’t even mention the possibility of fall. Not even to play cluelessness. His sentences were all in that direction: “I cannot have a budget for 2023, if I do not have a formed government by the end of August or the beginning of September. We have opened a reflection to see what interests you at this end of the legislature because the legislature is coming to an end, it’s obvious,” he said.
In a context of complex economic turmoil and double-digit price rises, Moreno insisted that “having budgets for 2023 is essential and that is the objective that drives us.” “Right now, it is not the last Government Council, there is a legislature left. Everything is in period of reflection and we will decide soonMoreno defended.
From their statements it can be deduced that until the procedure is made official and Parliament is dissolved, Juanma Moreno will inaugurate everything ‘inaugurable’ and no announcement or presentation will be left in the inkwell praise your management. It has also been corroborated with the agenda designed for a tour of Malaga in which Juanma Moreno illuminated the opening of a health center in Marbella the afternoon before the Governing Council. And, for after the long-awaited meeting, she set the start of work on one of her star projects in the capital of Malaga: a macro-hospital with almost a thousand beds. At the moment, his messages prior to the imminent electoral race are being recreated in his health policy, which is precisely one of the workhorses to which the PSOE, Vox and United We Can have entrusted themselves in recent months to erode the Andalusian Government of the change shared by the PP and Ciudadanos.
Since the melon of the possible electoral advance for June was opened, Juanma Moreno has been left alone with his own approach and his intention to call the elections it has been questioned by the rest of the political forces represented in the Autonomous Chamber. Even by its members of Citizens in the Andalusian Executive, to whom the polls predict the loss of practically all of its 21 seats.
Both the vice president of the Board and organic leader of the liberal party in Andalusia, Juan Marín, and the parliamentary spokesperson, Teresa Pardo, have amplified a message aimed at desire to exhaust the legislature and postpone the polls until the fall. However, the councilor for Economic Transformation appointed by Ciudadanos, the independent Rogelio Velasco, immediately aligned himself with the thesis of the finance councilor and economic guru of the new Feijóo PP, Juan Bravo, who insisted to Moreno on the need to reach the last quarter of this year with a Government already formed that allows the 2023 budgets to be shed light.
In the last few hours and given the possibility that the elections will be set for June 12, the Andalusian president’s electoral meditation has also been used as a throwing weapon by the opposition. The general secretary and candidate of the Andalusian PSOE for the presidency of the Junta, Juan Espadas, criticized this Tuesday that “Moreno-Bonilla has been stripping the daisy for a long time and this serves him daily so that we do not talk about the many real problems of Andalusia , which are the fruit of their mismanagement”. “Moreno Bonilla has been talking for weeks, even months, about the electoral advance in Andalusia, and he does it with the purpose of run a smokescreen that embarrasses others“Insisted a former mayor of Seville who is still immersed in an express process aimed at popularizing his figure in the eight Andalusian provinces.
Problems in the Andalusian left
Likewise, the regional coordinator of the United Left, Toni Valero, branded “irresponsible and capricious” the behavior of Juanma Moreno and he lamented that “all Andalusia is aware of what the gentleman has already decided but still does not want to tell”. Valero, like Swords himself, is not particularly happy that the elections are called imminently. His intention to lead the candidacy of a broad left-wing front has not been blessed by Podemos, which is more in favor of placing the civil guard and deputy for Cádiz Juan Antonio Delgado on the star posters. And, in turn, this scuffle is boring Más País and Equo to the point that the electoral alliance that the four formations had signed is not coming together.
In addition, for Teresa Rodríguez the debate on the elections is serving as a perch to reiterate the purely Andalusian signs of identity with which she has designed a new party, after her abrupt break with Podemos and her subsequent refusal to join a united front of the forces located to the left of the PSOE: “While some are doing accounts to see when it is better for them to advance the electionsin Adelante Andalucía we are asking for resources to come to Andalucía”, Rodríguez recently pointed out when demanding that the southernmost community in Spain house the headquarters of the Spanish Space Agency.
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For his part, Vox’s parliamentary spokesman, Manuel Gavira, reiterated that “Juanma Moreno has been showing for months that he only thinks about his electoral interests.” “Only Vox Andalucía wants to put an end to all socialist policies once and for all, Andalusians must be clear that Moreno Bonilla will convene the PP when it suits him best,” Gavira has been insisting.
However, Vox’s attitude reveals a certain change in strategy, after having endlessly requested early elections. In recent days, while the polls triggered the impact on the electorate of over 20 seats, the explicit projection of Macarena Olona as a possible candidate to the Andalusian presidency has receded into the background. The intention of Abascal’s party is not to make his headliner official until Juanma Moreno has set a definitive date for the Andalusian appointment with the polls.