“Let Moreno Bonilla tremble this Sunday!”, warned the socialist José Antonio Carranza, mayor of the town of Pulianas in Granada, where the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, held his penultimate rally of the Andalusian electoral campaign this Wednesday to support María Jesús Montero, before concluding his electoral tour for the 17-M next Friday in Seville.
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The candidate for re-election as president of the Junta, Juanma Moreno Bonilla, has suggested that an electoral debacle for the socialist María Jesús Montero next Sunday in Andalusia could deliver the final blow to Pedro Sánchez’s eight years in office in Spain, precipitating an early general election. But the head of the Executive, this afternoon in Pulianas, came to respond to Moreno: if Montero manages to reconquer San Telmo for the PSOE this 17-M, he pointed out that his mandate in the Moncloa could even be extended beyond 2027, when he plans to call the next general elections. This was one of the arguments Sánchez used to call for votes for Montero.
“It is not normal to have a progressive coalition government in the world today, unfortunately it is not,” Sánchez warned. The norm, he lamented, is for right-wing or far-right leaders, or both together, to govern, referring to the American Donald Trump or the Argentine Javier Milei. “What happens in Spain is not normal; it is quite unique that we have a progressive coalition government,” he insisted. “We have to take care of it and protect it,” he demanded. “And it has to survive beyond the year 2027,” he defended. “I am halfway through the task, and I have been here for eight years,” he justified.
And the best way to take care of and protect Spain’s progressive government, he pointed out, is for the most populous autonomous community in the country, Andalusia, to become an ally with a similarly progressive executive. “What the progressive coalition government needs, to get there sooner and further in all the policies we have ahead, are institutional allies, also progressive governments,” he assured.
Sánchez added another “motivating” element to double down against Moreno Bonilla at the polls next Sunday: “Let’s give ourselves the pleasure of beating the right!”. Or the rights: “We are going to beat the PP and Vox, both, with only one ballot, that of the PSOE,” he assured. Although Montero avoids referring to the PP and Vox regional alliances in her electoral campaign, so that the useful vote does not lean towards Moreno Bonilla, the President of the Government has continued denouncing the investiture pacts of the right and far-right, so far in Extremadura and Aragon, as a warning message in Andalusia.
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“No country becomes great through cuts, but through rights,” argued the head of the Executive, facing a “reactionary wave” worldwide and also in Spain, about which he warned. And with a singular defense of public healthcare as a banner, which is what Montero has been waving throughout her electoral campaign towards the 17-M.
Montero, for her part, does not falter despite having all the polls against her. “Faced with the polls, proposals,” she argued. Her first proposal is to “eliminate waiting lists” in public healthcare. The PSOE candidate encouraged giving the “best effort” in the regional elections next Sunday, just as Andalusia did in the autonomy referendum on February 28, 1980. “Now we face a new referendum for public healthcare,” she defended.
But Montero called to fight abstention. “We still have to win over undecided people,” she warned. Also former PSOE voters who now do not feel motivated, or who prefer to prevent Moreno Bonilla from depending on Vox to govern: “If you voted for us before, vote for us again, we will not let you down,” she demanded. Likewise, she appealed to the concentrated vote of the left: “Let no one be confused, the only real alternative is the PSOE.” “The only alternative,” she insisted, to prevent Moreno Bonilla’s re-election. And for all this, she called for a “final push” in the few campaign days remaining.
