The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has turned to his first vice president and vice -secretary general of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, who, since this weekend, faces the new task of unseating the popular Juan Manuel Moreno of the Junta de Andalucía and , above all, undermine your comfortable absolute majority. “I lose a collaborator, but we will win a socialist at the head of the Junta de Andalucía,” said Sánchez this Sunday at the end of his speech at the closing of the Regional Congress of Andalusian Socialists.
Before he has dedicated a good part of his speech to defend the importance of a strong Europe ”and, as usual, he has urged the PP to release the entire ballast with Vox. This Sunday, he has chosen, precisely, the response of all the political formations of that country before the rise of the Extrem Right Alternative Für Deutschlan (AFD), which they have warned that they will not allow them to govern in the institutions, in contrast to the Pacts between the party of Alberto Núñez-Feijóo with that of Santiago Abascal: “It has been clear that the ultra-right will not enter any governance equation and that It is the big difference between Germany and Spain, that there is a moderate right and here a right guarded by the ultra -right, and it all started here ”
That could well be Andalusia – where, although Vox did not come into the government of the Board, if he led to the arrival of Moreno thanks to his investiture agreement with PP and Citizens, a milestone that Montero has recalled – as Montero – as The rest of the communities and municipalities where both parties have sealed Alliance. “Every time they have added, they have expelled the PSOE from the governments, the Board and the municipalities,” said Sánchez.
The president of the Government has influenced the change of paradigm in international policy caused by the emergence of Donald Trump, president of the United States, – “there are leaders who are changing the script in a copernican manner of the global order,” said Sánchez, said, Sánchez said, ” To defend the importance of democratic and values, which is to which the “technoligarks” see as “a threat.” And, again, he has launched an order to the PP to “cut all the links” with the ultra -right.
About to fly to kyiv, where this afternoon starts from the Granada airport, Sánchez has reinforced the legitimacy of this after Trump’s words calling him dictator and has appealed to the need for neither Ukraine nor the EU to be outside the process of Paz: “rewarding the aggressor is to pay for future aggressions, peace in Ukraine cannot be agreed without Ukrainians or Europeans.”
In his offensive against the reactionary wave, he has also referred to at the Constitution of Conservative Political Action (CPAC), held these days in Washington. “They want us to pay attention to their chainsaw, because it is the show. The important thing is to hear what the bonnet noises hide, which is to privatize the public services of the working middle class. ”
Beyond international politics, Sánchez has dedicated many compliments to his number two In the government. “I have never found a policy or politician like María Jesús Montero. What he says does, ”said the president of the Government. “When María Jesús Montero proposes something, he succeeds, so Moreno …” has warned the president of the Andalusian Board. But, once the foci of the 15th Regional Congress is off the Andalusian PSOE, it will begin to raise its most steep slope to reach the regional elections provided in the first of 2026, although it is not just that the goal. He wants the Andalusian PSOE to add when the final goal located in the general elections in which Andalusia contributes 61 of the 350 seats is reached. With a weak Andalusia (now contributes 21 deputies) the possibilities of repeating in the central government stretch.
The road to the Board
Montero has marked the land in which he wants to play, that of the Andalusian green and the red on the left to face a brunette to which all known surveys predict today an absolute new majority. The general secretary in all her actions insists on two messages: the claim of public services – “With María Jesús, Andalusia will go from the verb to privatize that of Blindar,” said Sánchez – and the defense of self -government with the development of all the Competencies provided for in the Statute of Autonomy. “The PP does not have an idea or a proposal for Andalusia, of self -government development. Moreno does not contribute Na because he has no project but confrontation and fighting, all day complaining without contributing, ”he said.
Another of its missions is to make an Alicaid Andaluz who is possible to win the Andalusian elections. “That the PP is preparing. We are going to get it, the PP fears a united match, awake and that works in victory ,. Both Montero and Sánchez have had words of thanks for the outgoing secretary and socialist spokesman in the Senate, Juan Espadas, for “his generosity” by giving up repeating a new mandate. If there is someone who has received more hugs in this congress than Montero that has been the former mayor of Seville.
Montero has accused the president of the Board of lack of ambition and living “of the income left by the socialist governments of Andalusia”, an idea that also expressed the former president of the Board, Manuel Chaves, condemned by the case of The ERE and to which the Constitutional Court has proved him right in his appeal for violation of fundamental rights. The Secretary General has predicted the end of the Moreno stage in Andalusia: “You spend the time to go through the problems of tiptoe, just walk and take pictures. The countdown has started. We are going to peel because we want and if I go out to win, we all go out to win. ”
The new address of the PSOE-A
Before the closure. Montero Regional, approved with a 94.5%support, about seven this morning, when they finished fitting the last fringes. Montero has formed a mastodontic address with 65 members, four less than the outgoing, but whose permanent commission is made up of 13 secretaries or area coordinators. That will be the machine room of the now Mallet PSOE Andalusian that must undertake two urgent missions: the recomposition of the party and the preparation of the autonomous elections of 2026, which are on a stone shot, at 15 months seen.
Montero has placed María Márquez (Huelva, 35 years old) on the party bridge of the party (Huelva, 35 years old) as Deputy Secretariat, thus pointing to a generation of expiration. That complex does not have Montero and has done what they should have made their predecessors in office. In the essential Secretary of Organization will be Paco Rodríguez (55 years old), mayor of Dos Hermanas, the Muñidor of the Conversions and Previous contacts before receiving the seen from the Secretary General. Rodríguez has the profile of the classic organization secretary of the Andalusian PSOE when this party swept the polls: he knows the ins and outs .
Montero has used the Executive’s negotiations to solve provincial polvorines. He has included in positions of relevance (or at least they appear) leaders who aspired to lead or continue leading their provinces. In this way he has avoided primaries in Malaga, including the Secretary General. Dani Pérez, as coordinator of an area; and in Granada, by placing Paco Cuenca at the head of another. He has also deactivated the fights in Huelva and Almería, where they will repeat their respective general secretaries, and where there has not been a stretched of agreed solution will go to primary dog’s face.
The major problem is called Jaén, the only group in which there has never been a fight for the General Secretariat, because they have always been able to agree. On this occasion, no. Two candidates will register their candidacy tomorrow: the spokeswoman for the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Angels Férriz, and the mayor of Arjona, Juan Latorre. If you are at the head of the regional executive, Jaén has gone to the tail. No relevant member of this group appears in the regional direction which involves a global failure that will probably try to solve in a few weeks when you know who wins in this province. That he was from the eve of the closing of the Gaspar Zarrías Congress, the creator of the modern PSOE, was not a good sign, but a symptom of concern.
Nor in Córdoba has been possible a previous pact and Rafi Crespín, the current general secretary will probably battle with who has been her right hand, José Antonio Romero. María Jesús Montero has put mimbres in her executive to avoid the clash in Cádiz. At the moment the swords are high, but it will try to avoid the shock.
Montero has made an effort to integrate the Susanists, who once strongly controlled the most numerous federation and left in inheritance a very divided party by two circumstances: the primary of Susana Díaz and Pedro Sánchez; And then, Díaz’s dispute with Juan Espadas for the control of the Andalusian PSOE. The former president of the Board lost the two internal elections. That caused that during the subsequent electoral processes there were many arms fallen in the campaigns. And that is precisely what María Jesús Montero wants to conjure not only for the Andalusian elections of 2026, but for the municipal ones of 2027 and especially the generals. Susanists, clearly identified as the former vice president of the Board, Manuel Jiménez Barrios, have found accommodation in all regional bodies. During the executive’s negotiations, Susana Díaz could be heard telling several of her own in one of the halls of the 15th Regional Congress: “Water, endure. You have to know who to complain. ”
