Juanma Moreno, president of the Junta de Andalucía thanks to the votes in favor of his 58 deputies, the abstention of the 13 deputies of Vox (a representative of the group was missing) and the 37 'noes' of the leftist parties. The popular did not need to balance the numbers to get the baton given the absolute majority that he holds in the Chamber. It will be on Saturday, July 23, when the leader of the PP-A will swear his position in an act that will take place from 09:00 in front of the main facade of the Palacio de San Telmo, seat of the Presidency.
The lack of support from PSOE (30 deputies), Por Andalucía (5 seats) and Adelante Andalucía (2 representatives) has not been a surprise to the popular party. For his part, Vox has decided to abstain (13 votes) although Macarena Olona assured him that “we will be by his side”.
Moreno already announced that "the legislature will be tough." "They're not even going to give me the 100 days of courtesy," he said. However, the "stability" that he proposes is assured after achieving the absolute majority after 19-J. "We finished the legislature of change and began the legislature of momentum," said Toni Martín, spokesman for the Popular Group in Parliament.
All the parties on the left have opted for the 'no', and have criticized the tax cut announced by the president, as well as denouncing the deficiencies suffered by the public health sector and education. Moreno, for his part, has acknowledged that "there is much to be done" to achieve "the Andalusia of dreams".
Juan Espadas, general secretary of the PSOE, who has claimed some of the "successes" of this legislature in Andalusia to the action of the central government, has accused Moreno of opting for a speech "of an absolute majority in substance and in form" , since he has asked the president to "respect" and "not block" the work of the opposition. “We will not make an absolute opposition”, he has said.
For Swords, the Andalusia that the Andalusian popular leader proposes "does not reflect the real Andalusia", and has questioned the management carried out in the previous legislature and the viability of the proposals made now. "Will we have to return funds from the Next Generation Why hasn't the money been invested?", he asked Moreno. "Doing so little has never had so much electoral profitability," he snapped.
The man from Seville has committed himself to "fighting for a new system of economic financing" together with the PP. "I still believe in his word", Moreno replied, every time he has asked him to "open a path of dialogue" that is "fruitful" for the benefit of Andalusians.
For her part, Teresa Rodríguez, from Adelante Andalucía, justified her decision by considering that the new Government "will not be the government of the social majority", since she pointed out that "the Andalusian economic miracle is only in your head, Mr. Moreno". Meanwhile, For Andalusia, led by Inmaculada Nieto, emphasized the lack of "specification" of the president's proposals. Even so, he has wanted to build bridges with the popular leader, carry out an "honest dissent" to reach "robust agreements."
“We will be by your side”, said the spokeswoman for the extreme right, Macarena Olona, who made her debut today in the Chamber. However, this support has not translated into votes in favor of the candidacy but rather into abstentions. The extreme right, which occupies 14 seats, has cast 13 votes in this regard in the absence of a representative in Parliament.
The woman from Alicante, who has dedicated a good part of her speech to criticizing the policies carried out in Madrid by Pedro Sánchez, has applauded the tax reduction announced by Moreno, and has advocated the total abolition of the community's own taxes, as well as well as by a significant thinning of the "superfluous expense" of the administration. All this, in favor of the construction of "a social shield" that "protects families" from the "dark night that is coming" in economic terms. Olona has spoken of recession, while President Moreno has refused to use this term, "thick words" that generate "alarmism," he said.
The popular leader has joined the attacks on Sánchez, and has emphasized that inflation, accelerated by the war in Ukraine, is the responsibility of the "bad economic policies" of the president of the central executive.
After the votes of the groups in this second session of the investiture debate (yesterday the Chamber welcomed Juanma Moreno's speech and his political proposals), the popular inauguration as president of the Board will take place next Saturday July 23. The event will take place on the esplanade of the Avenida de Roma in Seville, in front of the main facade of the San Telmo Palace (headquarters of the presidency) and will be attended by around 700 guests, including the leader of the national PP, Núñez Feijóo.
