Once the electoral scrutiny of May 17 confirmed on the night of this Sunday its poor polling forecasts in Andalusia, the PSOE leadership hurried to put forward a flood of positive elements for their interests to try to overcome the fact that María Jesús Montero, with only 28 seats, broke through the historical low of the socialists in what was once their impregnable stronghold.
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 de Andalucía and PP candidate for re-election lost five seats and was two short of the absolute majority, a result he considers “sufficiently decisive” to avoid having to incorporate Vox into the government.
María Jesús Montero, until a few weeks ago vice president of the Government, will resign her seat as a deputy in the Congress and will take her seat in the Andalusian parliament when it is constituted.
In these Andalusian elections held yesterday, everyone defied their expectations. Juanma Moreno’s was to maintain the absolute majority and repeat the mathematical miracle of 2022; Montero’s was to exceed the thirty deputies from four years ago. Neither of the two has been fulfilled.
“I am wearing a kufiya that I have borrowed from the Palestinian people so I don’t burn my head because after chemo I have lost my hair, dear undocumented sir. Kisses.” This is how the former Andalusian parliamentarian and Adelante Andalucía candidate in 2022 for the presidency of the Junta, Teresa Rodríguez, responded to a derogatory tweet, now deleted, during the Andalusian election day.
Singing the song of his own campaign has cost Moreno the absolute majority. If Zeus granted victory to the moderates, as Aeschylus warned, the Great Laurel – an absolute majority and two relative ones – has not managed to make the Andalusians grant him the benefits again of…
The Andalusian path of President Juanma Moreno has also not served for the Popular Party to get rid of its greatest adversary and its only ally, Vox.
ERC finalizes with the Government and the State that Catalonia assumes the majority of the governance of the Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona (CZFB). The proposal from the republicans is that the Generalitat of Catalonia holds 40% of this body and that the Barcelona City Council obtains 15%, leaving 45% in the hands of the State, according to La Vanguardia. This is the third pillar of the extra-budgetary agreement between socialists and Oriol Junqueras’ party, which is supposed to be the landing pad to seal the Generalitat’s budgets, if nothing goes wrong, this Tuesday.
The alternative Andalusian left went to bed last night with a new hegemonic actor. José Ignacio García confirmed at the polls the overtaking that the polls had been anticipating for months since his Adelante Andalucía won eight seats – six more than in 2022 – and clearly surpassed Por Andalucía whose candidacy, led by Antonio Maíllo, stalled at five deputies without managing to capitalize on the return of the IU leader to the front line of politics.