Juanma Moreno harbors few doubts and seems to bet on governing “alone” despite having lost the absolute majority in the Andalusian regional elections. The president of the Junta of Andalusia and PP candidate for re-election lost five seats and fell two short of the absolute majority, a result he considers “sufficiently decisive” to avoid having to incorporate Vox into the government.
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The truth is that Vox also does not seem to be going to make entry into the Junta government a condition to support Moreno’s investiture, but that the nature of the demands will be oriented towards measures on immigration and national priority in public aid.
Moreno, who was received with applause in Génova, the national headquarters of the PP, landed this Monday in Madrid to attend the party’s Board of Directors. Moreno has claimed that the PP has obtained a total of 1,735,000 votes, which translates into 150,000 more votes than the last elections, and fell 21,000 votes short of the absolute majority, 10,000 in Jaén and 11,000 in Granada, as he explained.
In this regard, he also specified that despite the will to form a single-party government, the parliamentary arithmetic will “lead him to seek agreements.” “One must not be naive, in the sense that one thing is to govern alone and another thing is not to reach agreements in the parliamentary way.”
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Moreno insisted that “the result is very good” and gives “room to maneuver to govern alone”: “Beyond the parliamentary dynamics that lead you to try to find formulas for agreement and understanding on certain issues, I think it would make no sense to impose or permanently seek a seat,” Moreno said, referring to Vox.
The demand for priority is central to Vox’s program, a concept that Santiago Abascal’s party has inserted into the political agenda and which translates into giving priority to Spaniards in access to public aid. Moreno has avoided commenting on this issue and has assured that he has “the Andalusian priority.” “Right now, there is no contact or anything with Vox,” he said, since, according to him, there is room until June 11, which is the day the Andalusian Parliament is constituted.
Moreno won 53 of the 109 deputies at stake in the Andalusian Parliament yesterday and garnered 41.5% of the vote. Despite the good results, he has lost five parliamentarians and this will force him this legislature to govern with parliamentary alliances.
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