While the leader of the PSOE-A, Juan Espadas, presented his electoral program today in Seville, a short distance away, the president of the national PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and his counterpart in the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, participated in a meeting with members of the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Andalusia. The eternal rival parties strive to get the majority support of the Andalusian electorate so that they can form independent governments after the 19-J elections.
On the one hand, Espadas focuses on social policies, promising to improve public health, reduce unemployment figures by half and promote the quality of public education, thus reinforcing professional training and focusing it on the insertion of young people in the working market. Meanwhile, Moreno turns to economic and fiscal issues, announcing a massive tax cut with which to reactivate the economy, something with which, in his opinion, more employment will be generated, the productive system will be stimulated and the number of taxpayers will increase.
Both leaders see it feasible to put themselves, again, in command of the San Telmo Palace. Moreno, for his part, still does not talk about possible government pacts with Vox, a formation headed by Macarena Olona, however, Espadas has taken sides with the confluence of the left, confirming that he has a "good understanding" with the leader of Por Andalucía, Inmaculada Nieto, since she has insisted that she aspires to govern “in a minority”, as she did when she became mayor of Seville, or resort to “programmatic agreements” with the bloc.
It seems that everyone has chosen a flag with which to go out and mobilize the vote of the citizens. The PSOE-A, in the act of presenting its electoral program, has chosen to promote and improve social policies that cover citizens and that are among the main concerns of Andalusians. Swords champions three causes: health, education and employment, especially focused on reducing unemployment among young people.
The Sevillian has opted to promote quality health care, taking into account the deficits that the pandemic revealed and the lack of personnel in primary care centers and hospitals. On the other hand, he has focused on the need to bet on quality public education, oriented towards professional training in order to promote the incorporation of young people into the labor market and thus reduce the high unemployment rate of this group. . To "build bridges" between training and employment, it has promised an investment of 2,000 million euros.
It has been the acting president of the Board, Juanma Moreno, who, within the framework of a visit to the Andalusian Confederation of Entrepreneurs, has launched his star proposal. Accompanied by the president of Genoa, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the man from Malaga announced that, if he were victorious in the next elections, he would launch a massive tax cut with which he intends to reactivate the regional economy.
The initiative has had the approval of the Galician, who has stressed that the reforms carried out by the regional government in the last three and a half years have marked "the greatest differential fact" of the community. Moreno constitutes “a reliable government”, since he has insisted that he spends what he has, the region with the least debt while its GDP has grown more than the national average, he commented. For Feijóo, Moreno has shown that Andalusia was not “condemned to be on the left”.
The president of the regional executive in office has insisted that, if he returns to his post after the elections, he will carry out a tax cut that will affect "almost all tax figures". “Almost all of them will be linked to our productive system because we want to stimulate it and, at the same time, remove a fiscal burden from the middle classes and workers. We must reactivate the consumption of Andalusian families because that is how the businessmen have transferred it to us”, he said during his speech.
In a brief assessment of this legislature, the popular Andalusian leader commented that with the initiatives adopted by his Government, 280,000 new taxpayers have been registered, which has meant an increase of 1,000 million euros for public coffers. In addition, he has said, with the approval of the Land Law, "the PGOU has been unblocked" in many municipalities, making them attractive for investment. On the other hand, he has highlighted the help lines for companies, employment growth and GDP, the latter having increased by 6.8% according to the data he has handled.
Despite the fact that all the headliners are willing to put 'all the meat on the grill' during the duration of the electoral campaign, according to the polls, the government that leaves 19-J will have to be, inevitably, the result of a coalition.
The polls point to Moreno as the winner of the appointment with the polls, however, he would not obtain an absolute majority, predictably remaining in the hands of the ultra-nationalists. At the moment, he neither affirms nor denies, leaving aside his preferences when it comes to agreeing with one or the other. For his part, the Deputy Minister of the Executive and leader of Cs, continues to bet on revalidating the coalition as the best option for Andalusia.
"These elections, unfortunately, are not about the PP or the PSOE, but about the PP with Vox or the PSOE with the agreement of other leftist political forces," commented Juan Espadas. The former mayor of Seville, who won the baton of command in the Seville capital with a minority government, wants to repeat this formula in San Telmo, opening a path of negotiation with Por Andalucía to “replace” the region “where it should”.
For the moment, and despite not now considering the possibility of forming a team with the newborn left-wing bloc, led by Inmaculada Nieto, and reaching "programmatic agreements" with the broad front, he has assessed his candidate very positively. I am “delighted” because she is a “very balanced” person with “parliamentary experience”. However, she has made the door ugly for Nieto that she left open earlier in the week regarding a possible abstention in the face of a hypothetical investiture of Moreno as president in the event that she leaves Vox out of the Board.
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