Juanma Moreno, the president of the junta and PP candidate, started the electoral campaign tonight in the Murillo gardens in Seville in a quasi-family event. Not many people, all of them loyal devotees of the president waving Andalusian and Spanish flags.
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Moreno, who will most likely win these elections, faithful to the self-imposed discipline of running a campaign tailored to himself and his own, warned that on May 17 “we cannot get into trouble, when things are going reasonably well, we cannot depend on those who want to put sticks in the wheels, those who want to blackmail us or those who want to go back, back to the darkest past we have had in Andalusia.”
The PP starts the campaign with a new slogan, which it already used a few days ago for the first time in Antequera where it presented its electoral program, “With the strength of Andalusia.” Moreno presents a balance of his management in these eight years in which unemployment has decreased – despite still being a structural problem in the community – and the weight of industrial activity has grown above the Spanish average.
That strength is what he wants to highlight in this campaign in which Moreno hopes to renew the absolute majority of the last term, in which he has not depended on partners like Vox.
Montero, in defense of the middle classes
The socialist candidate for the presidency of the Junta has started her campaign in a hotel in Granada where she encouraged Andalusians to vote in defense of their own interests and against the “wolves in sheep’s clothing” as she defined the current president of the Junta, Manuel Moreno.
Montero will focus her speech in these elections on the corrosion of public services and how their deterioration will affect the middle classes who are such precisely because there is a public network that supports services that, if they had to pay for them, would bring them closer to precariousness.
Montero, before about 700 people, according to PSOE sources, appealed to “the activation of progressive voting” that may think that “these elections are not important and that this about health and education does not depend on the Junta.”
Maíllo sees the rebirth of the left
The candidate of Por Andalucía, Antonio Maíllo considers a victory of the left possible because “There has been a change in slope, in the mood of Andalusia, of the left-wing and progressive people.”
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Maillo, who this morning will participate alongside Yolanda Díaz in the May 1 demonstration in Málaga, has defended the unity project represented by Por Andalucía, within which Podemos runs.
The leader of Por Andalucía started his campaign in the Alameda de Hércules, where he emphasized that the project he leads has been built “without prejudice” and that it “remains open to anyone who wants to join the common good.”
Por Andalucía is, in fact, the first electoral experience of the groups in the Sumar orbit after the reflection on the future of this progressive conglomerate was opened.
Gavira, the national priority
The Vox candidate for the presidency of the Junta of Andalusia, Manuel Gavira, starts the electoral campaign in Cádiz. Gavira, who in the event that the PP does not reach an absolute majority would almost certainly be the vice president of the future government, said that “we are playing to recover security and prosperity in our neighborhoods and to end this open-door policy that collapses public services and generates fear, unease and insecurity in our neighborhoods and towns.”
“Other parties are afraid of the two words: national priority,” said the Vox candidate, who assured that this formation will defend that Andalusians are “always” first in access to public services.
Adelante Andalucía, a campaign of feelings
The spokesperson and candidate for the Presidency of the Junta for Adelante Andalucía, José Ignacio García, started the campaign with an event on the bridge of the Contemporary Art Center in Málaga.
García said that “We are going to talk about feelings and we are going to travel through every region, every town, every province, saying that this is the most important campaign of our lives and that the Andalusian people are playing for the future.”
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