Nothing about appealing to a comeback, or turning around the polls, recurring messages from all candidates when things are not going well. And although all the polls do not predict a good result for the candidate of the PSOE of Andalusia, María Jesús Montero, she is doing her thing: she does not accept the polls as good and assures that “she is going out to win.” “This is it, let’s go for the victory!”
Montero has started the Andalusian electoral campaign in Granada in the auditorium of a hotel with a full capacity (about 700 people). With the help of the Granada singer Miguel Ríos, who has defined himself as a socialist sympathizer, and with Welcome thundering through the loudspeakers.
Montero has lost the Andalusians who “look out for themselves” when voting. “Let them think about their family, about those two million who are on a waiting list. Healthcare has a solution and hope must be restored to mothers with children with special education. We are going to ask all those who do not have money in the bank to pay for their children’s private university not to be fooled by propaganda and marketing. Andalusia is going to turn that annoyance into a vote.”
The entire electoral argument of the PSOE candidate revolves around the deterioration of public services in Andalusia. He trusts everything to that and hence the emphasis he placed when he asked the Andalusians to “look after themselves.”
However, he has made reference to the PP-Vox pact on immigration in the communities of Extremadura and Aragón. “The human issue is above any other. First they classify people and then they give them a distinction so that each one has a different destiny.”
The candidate has tried to reinterpret the slogan of the PP candidate for re-election, Juan Manuel Moreno, that in these elections it is about choosing between “stability or trouble.” For Montero, the “problem is what families have to wait a year for a family member with cataracts to be operated on; the problem is that of those young people who cannot rent a home; the problem is waiting for help from the agency. That is the problem we are in.” He also translates Moreno’s appeal to stability as “a blank check for the privatization of what allows us to take care of ourselves.”
Although Montero avoids entering into hand-to-hand combat with the candidate for re-election, he has warned against those who do not go head-on: “Society has to beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing. Those who disguise themselves to blend in with the flock and attack any minor that comes along.” Montero has had words of support for the wife of Pedro Sánchez, who has denounced the activist Vito Quiles for an attack. They attack her, according to them, “just because she is the wife of a socialist president.”
The rocker from Granada has put socialist militants on their feet by warning of “the crossroads” in which, according to him, Andalusia finds itself with the right and the extreme right signing “neo-fascist clauses as the spawn of national priority.”
