Family, friends and daily life, this is how the candidates for the Junta de Andalucía spend the day of reflection | Andalusia Elections

—I know there are elections, but I haven’t been paying attention, because my daughter’s communion has kept me absorbed these weeks. I don’t know who I will vote for; What’s more, I don’t know if I’ll vote.

This is how Manuel responds, before getting into the car to take his daughter, his wife and his in-laws to the church where the little girl is going to celebrate her first communion. The vehicle is parked very close to where, a couple of hours later, the Por Andalucía candidate for the Junta de Andalucía, Antonio Maíllo, went to buy fish in the Sevillian neighborhood of San Julián, where he resides. This Saturday is a day of reflection and between 15% and 25% of the more than six million Andalusians called to vote this Sunday (a priori, to whom this day is intended).

And although it is assumed that the campaign ended this Friday and that the vote cannot be requested this Saturday, what the candidates do on this day, apparently blank, also serves to incite and draw the attention of those who have nothing decided. Family, friends and daily life are the emotional frameworks that the candidates wanted to present to mobilize some doubtful voters. The most natural, if only because he was the only one who called the media, without production behind him, was Antonio Maíllo, number one of Por Andalucía. The IU federal coordinator has decided to do what he would do on any Saturday: shop for the week. He has gone to the local shops in his neighborhood to buy fruit, sea bass, sea bream, tuna and salmon. During his walk he was able to see the affection of his neighbors in the San Julián neighborhood: “Good luck tomorrow, Antonio, you’re going to do well!”, the people in charge of the fishmonger and some neighbors who stopped to greet him before entering his door told him.

Maíllo shares his optimism: “The sensations are very good. We have perceived massive affection, despite the fact that they have wanted to convey to us an idea of ​​resignation.”

The president of the Junta de Andalucía and candidate for reelection for the PP, Juan Manuel Moreno, and the Adelante Andalucía candidate, José Ignacio García, have chosen to enjoy Saturday in the company of their friends. The first in Malaga, where the electoral campaign closed on Friday. “I wanted to recover a tradition that I previously did every two months and now once a year,” said the popular leader in statements released by his party’s communication team. It’s about meeting up for lunch with his “lifelong friends,” some from daycare, “to talk about topics that are not politics.” Although it is difficult to think that the results that will be known tomorrow have not entered into the conversation, given that one of those friends who appear in the photos that the PP has sent – who could very well have starred in a beer advertisement – is the former deputy minister of Tourism and Culture, Víctor Manuel González, who is ninth on the list for Málaga, according to the surveys managed by the PP. To tie them in, he has appealed in the last days of the campaign to the undecided, to those who do not trust politics and, as he did four years ago, to the disenchanted socialist sympathizers.

García has also chosen to spend the morning having breakfast with his friends in Seville, as seen in another batch of photos distributed by Adelante Andalucía – very close, by the way, to where Maíllo sat down to have coffee with his team mid-morning -, before moving to Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), where he is the candidate, to enjoy the Horse Fair, which is being held this week, and which he was unable to set foot on. be in campaign There he will also be with friends, before concentrating on election day to check if the polls, which predict many more deputies than just doubling the two they already have and which have relegated them to the mixed group, come true. demanding, seeking confrontation with the PP and Vox, but always in a positive way, they have sought to attract voters disenchanted with the PSOE and Sumar, but who would never vote for the right.

The Vox candidate, Manuel Gavira, has decided to spend this day with his family. “Family priority, marital priority,” he wrote on his

The general secretary of the PSOE and its candidate for the presidency of the Board, María Jesús Montero, has opted for the company of the former mayor of Seville, Antonio Muñoz, with whom she has gone to the Botica de Lectores bookstore, on Feria street. There he bought The detail, by Jesús Carrasco, and The best ageby Luis García Montero. “Family, friends and books. I can’t think of a better way to spend this day of reflection. Conversations that encourage, affection that comforts and inspiring readings. Tomorrow is going to be a great day for Andalusia,” wrote the former first vice president of the Government in PSOE at the polls in 2022.

Macarena is one of them. He is taking a tapa a little above where Montero was buying books. “I am not at all clear, my head tells me one thing and my heart tells me another, but what makes me angry is that there will be others who do not think so much about how they are going to vote or even who do not do so,” he explains, although he refuses to reveal which party each of his organs points to. “Today is a day of reflection, and I am in it,” he says with a smile.