The president of the Junta de Andalucía and PP candidate for re-election, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, has decided to focus his campaign on appealing to and not having to depend on Vox, and for this reason he is reluctant to say whether he would sign with the ultras. “I am not considering anything because we are in a position to achieve a sufficient majority,” he said this Thursday during a breakfast organized by the Nueva Economía Forum in the Andalusian capital.
In any case, the popular leader has made an effort to reduce the scope of one of the most controversial and uncomfortable elements for him of these government pacts: . “It is a hollow slogan that they believe works for them,” he assured, without citing Vox. “Some proposals are unrealistic, and will never be made, and others are illegal,” he stressed. Moreno has warned that, above the government agreements, there are the Constitution, the Statutes of autonomy and the organic laws. “There is the immigration law and we will never do anything that violates that law,” the Andalusian president has warned. “That Vox means something else, it is a slogan.”
The PP candidate defended the importance and necessity of immigration in the morning before those attending the breakfast – many belonging to the business and business world – and in the afternoon at an event with representatives of the strawberry sector in Palos de la Frontera (Huelva). “We depend on foreign labor,” Moreno acknowledged, to warn against the xenophobic discourse and in favor of the expulsion of migrants from Vox, whom, again, he has not cited: “Be careful with some messages and speeches because we can get into trouble. We need migrant labor for agriculture.” What has not been referred to in the talk is the migrants who live in shacks a few meters from where the president’s talk with the farmers of Palos took place,
At breakfast he also warned that Andalusia’s reception capacity is at its limit, especially in the case of unaccompanied minors, which has served him to accuse the Government of Pedro Sánchez for excluding the Basque Country and Catalonia from the distribution of these young people. He has also questioned the “lack of immigration policy” of the PSOE, to defend “orderly immigration.”
Moreno has stressed the importance of reissuing the “stability” majority. “If I am missing one seat and no one abstains, I will not be able to call the planned oppositions, the aid to alleviate the rise in hydrocarbons… The Administration will be paralyzed because we will be in office and in office only exceptional things can be done,” he warned, reiterating the speech that he has repeated over and over again during these first days of the campaign.
Water to capture the agricultural vote of Huelva
After breakfast in Seville, the popular candidate moved to the province of Huelva, another constituency where the sixth deputy of the total of 11 is not completely assured. At mid-morning he held a meeting with 120 young entrepreneurs in the capital, where he announced measures aimed at the self-employed, such as a new line of incentives for those who complete the first year of the zero quota or a new employment and training plan aimed at the productive sectors, with special attention to generational change.
In the afternoon he repeated the format with representatives of the strawberry sector – the leader in production in Europe – at the Fresón de Palos cooperative in Palos de la Frontera. In 2022, the PP achieved a historic turnaround in that province thanks to the agricultural vote – fundamental in that territory – thanks, fundamentally, to the l precisely because of the electoral call. Four years later, that law – questioned by the European Commission and scientific entities – was buried due to the agreement signed between the central government and the Board that is in the process of being implemented.
is essential for the PP and that is why Moreno has chosen Huelva to defend his policies on water and agriculture. In addition to expressing his concern about the lack of labor, he has stressed his concern about the threat of drought. Moreno recalled that he has on several occasions demanded that the central government transfer powers to complete the Alcolea dam, which was paralyzed when Sánchez came to power. Given the lack of response, the popular leader has announced that the only avenue left is judicial. “I am not in favor of litigating and I hope for an agreement and, if not, sooner or later this Government will fall and we will be able to make the dam,” Moreno stressed.
The PP candidate has also insisted that Huelva must have desalination plants and has again accused the Government of not carrying out hydraulic works due to its “environmental ideology.” Each promise that Moreno has made on the issue of water has elicited applause from the 180 attendees in the assembly hall of the Fresón de Palos cooperative.
