Alberto Núñez Feijóo has used in Seville the example of his colleague and “friend” Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla to highlight that “you can be moderate and have determination”, and “firm without falling into fanaticism”. The leader of the PP claimed the moderate and non-strident way of the president of Andalusia, but he immediately raised . Feijóo has defended that the Government of Pedro Sánchez “is an international shame” and what has happened this week, with the trial, the break between Junts and the Executive or the investigation by the National Court into cash payments in the PSOE, is not typical “or of a third world country” and should have brought down the President of the Government. “Any prime minister,” he has complained, “would have fallen in the middle of the week.”
“Dear colleagues, let’s not trust ourselves,” Feijóo warned the hundreds of delegates of the Andalusian congress who were listening to him at the Fibes Conference and Exhibition Center in Seville. “In front of us there is no logic or common sense. In front of us is the Government of corruption and lies.” The leader of the PP has presented the PSOE as “sunk” and has described it as “capable of absolutely anything.” “Of lying, manipulating, defaming, stressing everything…,” he complained. “This PSOE has no limits. It has no legal limit. Every day there is a new crime investigated. It has no moral limit or modesty.”
“The ethical bar of the PSOE is in the basement,” the leader of the PP has hammered, referring to the trial of the attorney general or . “Whoever has to prosecute the crimes, which is the attorney general, is sitting on the bench,” he stressed. “And a minister doesn’t come out as prostitutes, only bitches come out. We’ll have to give him the socialist of the year award!”
Despite the situation he describes around the Government, Feijóo has asked his people “not to get complacent”, because the PP “was already at the doors” of La Moncloa in 2023, even though he also thought that the PSOE would lose power. “No nonsense, there is only one way, which is change, there is only one way for the PP to govern. And the way for the PP to govern is to vote for the PP. Let’s not get lost,” he urged, in a veiled reference that could be understood as directed at Vox and its voters. At another point in his speech, Feijóo has also asked right-wing voters that, although they need “a relief”, in another implicit allusion to voting for Vox, they are aware that “a five-minute relief is of no use, it is useful to them.” [al PSOE] to stay.”
At the same time that Feijóo and Juan Manuel Moreno were speaking at the closing of the 17th Regional Congress of the PP, a few kilometers away thousands of people were demonstrating in the center of Seville in defense of public health. The left-wing opposition (PSOE, Por Andalucía y Andalucía) relies everything on denouncing the deterioration of this public service so that Moreno loses the absolute majority in the regional elections scheduled for June 2026. There is no plan b in the electoral argument of the PSOE, which wants to turn the elections into a referendum on healthcare, according to its leaders.
Moreno is aware that this is the only message from the opposition. But the situation in breast cancer screening. There are two hundred complaints from affected women filed in court and prosecutors have also opened investigations.
The Andalusian president has gone on the offensive to dismiss the left’s argument that his government is privatizing public services in Andalusia. For him, this criticism is a kind of old thing, “a story” that he has been hearing “since he was wearing shorts” to “scare” society. “That is flatly false. The supposed privatization is the big lie of the PSOE,” he said.
Moreno bases this statement on the growth of the budget of the Junta de Andalucía since he presided over it in January 2019, especially in the areas of health, education and dependency. “Andalusia was last in health spending per inhabitant and now it is above average. Is that privatizing? No, that is moving forward.”
In a congress where the news is that there is no news, Moreno has provided his supporters with arguments to defend themselves against the criticism of their adversaries. The day before he maintained that “the PP is the party that has done the most for public services in the history of Andalusia.” And today he urged them to “feel proud” of what was done “and of the public service workers.” “We are not going to allow them to tarnish the good reputation of our educational, health and dependency system,” he stressed.
The other banner of Moreno’s campaign is to defend political stability in Andalusia, that is, the need to revalidate a new absolute majority and not depend on Vox, the only party that is growing strongly, according to the polls. “It is important to have stability because where it does not exist there is regression and insecurity. That will be at stake. There is a confluence of populist interests that wants to turn Andalusia into mud and polarization. A temporary electoral union of all opposition groups to cut off the change in Andalusia.” In this kind of UTE, the Andalusian president includes the left and Vox, although sometimes the criticism of the extreme right is much harsher than that of the left-wing parties. “All opposition groups, side a and side b, seek the same thing: to break the majority of stability”
