The PSOE leadership faces the final stretch of the electoral campaign in Andalusia just as it began: calling for a “massive last-minute mobilization” of progressive voters and the “concentration” of the left-wing vote on the ballot headed by María Jesús Montero as the only “useful vote” to be able to remove Juanma Moreno Bonilla from the presidency of the Junta.
All the polls published in recent hours, however, leave the popular candidate on the verge of an absolute majority, surpassing the 40% vote threshold, while the socialist candidate would barely manage, at most, to reach the 30 deputies secured four years ago by Juan Espadas, the worst historical result for a PSOE that, for almost 40 years, was hegemonic in Spain’s most populous community.
“There is no poll that demobilizes or discourages us,” warned the Ferraz spokesperson, Catalan Montse Mínguez, after the federal PSOE executive meeting held this Monday in the absence of Pedro Sánchez.
The socialists’ last card up their sleeve is that this last week of the campaign, ahead of the vote next Sunday, will work a miracle to reverse the electoral trends shown by all the polls. “The second week of the campaign suits the PSOE very well,” they argue in Ferraz. That last week, they assure, was crucial for the socialists to achieve a decent result in the Castilla y León elections last March, despite also losing to the majority of the PP and the far-right Vox.
Mínguez insisted that next Sunday will not only decide at the polls who will be the next president of the Junta of Andalusia, but above all, what the community’s management model will be: “Either the health card or the bank card,” warned the PSOE spokesperson. And she assured that no one will throw in the towel prematurely: “We will keep giving it our all, because another Andalusia is possible.” Regardless of the dark clouds forecast by the polls for María Jesús Montero.
“The polls do not demobilize us; on the contrary, we have the spirit of a comeback,” said Mínguez. And she recalled that neither in the July 2023 general elections did the polls predict that Pedro Sánchez could renew his position as prime minister, as he did despite losing the elections. “The best poll is that of May 17,” she argued.
The Ferraz spokesperson assured that “many people in Andalusia are demoralized by the deterioration of public services and disappointed with Moreno Bonilla’s management.” “And they should not resign themselves,” she pointed out. “They will not discourage us; there is an opportunity on May 17,” Mínguez defended.
Ferraz convenes the PSOE federal committee for June 27, almost a year after the last one, in order to start preparing the May 2027 municipal elections
The Ferraz executive also took advantage of its meeting this Monday to convene the PSOE federal committee for next June 27. The party’s highest decision-making body between congresses had not met for almost a year. Its last meeting, in fact, was on July 5, 2025: a meeting that took place in a state of shock over the arrest of the then party organization secretary, Santos Cerdán, accused of alleged corruption offenses. That same day, the team that would replace Cerdán had to be hastily reorganized because Francisco Salazar, who was to be deputy in organization, was also forced to resign due to anonymous accusations of alleged sexual harassment.
This time, the aim of this federal committee is to start preparing the new electoral cycle, with the municipal and regional elections scheduled for May 2027 and the general elections, if there is no counterorder and Pedro Sánchez manages to complete the legislature, scheduled for July next year.
