It is now the turn of former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz to give his explanations about his role in the so-called ‘Operation Kitchen’, a parapolice operation to steal documents about the PP’s slush fund from the party’s former treasurer Luis Bárcenas, who threatened to hand them over to the judge in the Gürtel case.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo has lashed out this May 1st against Pedro Sánchez’s Government, since, in his opinion, economic policy and corruption are discouraging work. “In Spain, it must be worthwhile to work and make an effort again,” states the manifesto published by the PP. Later, through social media, Feijóo himself has reproached the high taxes that workers are having to pay. “Working must serve to live, not just to pay,” he has pointed out.

For almost 40 years Andalusia was considered a socialist stronghold. It seemed like an enormous impregnable fortress. The socialists managed to blend in with the landscape in a remarkable way by identifying their brand with the construction of autonomy and the strengthening of an Andalusian identity in the early 80s. The so-called “captive vote” did the rest: for a long time the PSOE was skillful in attributing to itself the granting of agricultural aid and the implementation of public services. All this gave it an undeniable political stability. Now it is one of the few autonomous communities where the PP governs with an absolute majority, at a time when that achievement is a rarity. Has Andalusia turned to the right?