The campaign of the main candidates for the Junta de Andalucía is beginning to gain momentum while waiting for the first debate next Monday that will force them to define the strategies for the following weeks until May 17. The candidates, this Saturday, have been fine-tuning their electoral tune. The regional president and candidate for reelection for the PP, Juan Manuel Moreno, has chosen to exploit the asset of citizen sympathy, with visits to popular festivals in the province of Córdoba and; The general secretary of the PSOE of Andalusia has claimed the defense of her party’s feminism; Manuel Gavira, from Vox, has not moved one iota from the “national priority”; The candidate from Por Andalucía, Antonio Maíllo, has influenced the reinforcement of public services and José Ignacio García, from Adelante Andalucía, has incorporated the defense of quality in school canteens into the debate,
All the candidates have agreed in choosing provinces of western Andalusia. Moreno and García have been in Córdoba capital; Gavira and Maíllo in the province of Cádiz, Jerez the first and Algeciras, the second, while Montero held his rally in Mairena del Aljarafe (Seville). The earliest riser has been the president of the Board who, since early in the morning, has been walking through the green corridor of the capital of Cordoba, a 20-kilometer environmental space that surrounds the city, financed by the autonomous Government. At the end of the route, the popular leader announced a plan against children’s sedentary lifestyle and another to respond to the risks of climate change.
On the day against bullying, the Andalusian president has also announced a campaign in which personalities from different fields “relevant to the youngest” will participate to make minor bullies understand the consequences of their actions. Moreno made this announcement before participating in a rally against the bullying together with the mother last October for alleged bullying by some classmates at her school, who did not activate the corresponding protocols, despite the complaints of her mother, and which is being investigated by the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office.
The second official day of the popular baron’s campaign is focused, however, on the popular festivals of Córdoba and the province. After the rally, he visited some of the , in which residents fill their squares and streets to enjoy the floral decorations and mingle with the thousands of visitors that this event attracts every year. In the afternoon you will travel to Lucena to participate in the flower offering to María Santísima de Araceli, the patron saint of the municipality, the central act of its Aracelina Festivities. These two visits will help your team test the closeness and sympathies that your candidate arouses. “The affection of the people is the best electoral thermometer, more than the polls,” they repeat and, (Jaén), the results could not be better.
The candidate of the PSOE of Andalusia has focused her second day of the campaign on defending the feminist policies implemented by the central Government, of which she has been a part until the regional elections were called. in 2023 and, He has appealed to him at the start of his electoral career. The socialist leader has asked for “a little feminist training for jurists”, at an event on equality held in Mairena del Aljarafe. Montero has regretted that measures implemented by the nation’s Executive to complement “the misery pensions” of women who have not contributed enough for different reasons “are overturned” by the courts of justice. “The courts come and tell us that they are discriminatory. Yes, it is positive discrimination, to compensate for negative discrimination. The law did allow that. We must fight it,” he said.
The socialist has defended whose parliamentary processing PP and Vox have opposed. According to Montero, constitutional recognition would prevent “when a woman goes for the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, she does not have a stand at the door of the clinic trying to criminalize her.” He has also stood up for those who support regulation.
In the thank you chapter, the socialist leader has highlighted the presence at the previous event – a dialogue between the federal secretary of Equality and delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, and the Andalusian person in charge of that area, Olga Manzano, moderated by the number three from the list for Seville, Marta Alonso Lappi – of the former general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE, Juan Espadas, convalescing from retinal surgery.
Immigration, health and local food
Vox has continued to influence this morning the “national priority” assumed by the PP in the pacts in Extremadura and Aragón. Its candidate Manuel Gavira, from Jerez de la Frontera, has insisted at the same time that he has demanded greater defense of the primary sector – “our countryside, our agriculture, our livestock and our fishing” -, ignoring that the majority of the labor force that generates wealth in that sector is foreign.
One hour from Jerez, in Algeciras, the federal coordinator of IU and Por Andalucía candidate for the Junta, Antonio Maíllo, has emphasized the driving idea of his campaign: caused by Moreno’s management. “The PP model is to promise in the campaign and not deliver later, while public services are dismantled,” stated the communist leader, during an event organized next to a municipal building where the conservative party announced in February 2023 the location of a new health center. “Three years have passed and there is absolutely nothing here,” said Maíllo, who has accused the Andalusian Government of “directing public resources towards private healthcare instead of strengthening public healthcare.”
And while Moreno visited the May Crosses of Córdoba, in the Plaza de la Corredera in the capital of Córdoba, the Adelante Andalucía candidate, José Ignacio García, distributed homemade and local food to demand the recovery of school canteens, one of the demands on which, in line with Andalusian families, the Andalusian coalition has placed the most emphasis, which it includes in its program. García has drawn attention to how the management of 72% of the community’s school cafeterias is in the hands of six multinational companies. “We are selling our children’s school cafeterias to these people so that they can provide them with cold-line catering trays that are then reheated and given to the children. It seems truly outrageous to us,” he denounced.
