Why change what works. And if it worked once, why wouldn’t it work twice. The president of the Junta de Andalucía and candidate of the Popular Party for re-election for the Andalusians on May 17 bases his campaign strategy on this premise. The fourth and most important regional event held in the current electoral marathon.
Juanma Moreno It does not intend to innovate. Without the parallelisms with the past being valid, because the situation between the last elections and those to come is not the same, there are similarities in some elements. Like, for example, the presumed rise of Vox, a risk that would complicate the PP’s difficult – almost impossible – mission of regaining the absolute majority. 55 seats.
In the past, the formula was simple: don’t yell at me because I don’t see you. That Macarena Olona He extended his hand to him in the middle of a debate to be his “vice president”, silence. That Abascal asked for the closure of Canal Sur, silence. How was he going to reach an agreement without sealing a coalition like his colleague Mañueco, silence again. Systematically, Moreno ignored Vox. And that’s what he plans to do again.
At a time of uncertainty between the two parties, due to pending alliances in three autonomous communities, the PP discounts a campaign of harassment and demolition by the green party. Precisely, the idea that Moreno has in mind is to make attacks a strength, to portray his rival on the right and stop any transfer that could disrupt his almost impossible desire to repeat an absolute.
In the PP they admit that a distant goal has been imposed on the Andalusian president. In 2022, the magic figure was reached by “the remains” in eight provinces. This time it will not be different. The final game will be decided by a handful of votes. And if every vote counts, it is key that the most essential ones do not go to Vox, which has already launched its slogan: “Andalusians will have the opportunity to leave behind the PSOE mafia and the permanent scam of the PP.”
However, the maximum imposed by the PP is to pass by. The rival to defeat is not Vox, but the PSOE. And taking into account the size of the Andalusian opponent, none other than Sánchez’s number two, Moreno seeks hand-to-hand combat with her. So that Vox is relegated to a stone guest in the true left-right duel that, in reality, transcends the acronyms.
«I never have any problem debating with Mrs. Montero»the Andalusian president confessed yesterday to Carlos Alsina in Más de Uno, Onda Cero, given the approach of a hypothetical electoral debate between two. Point in favor of keeping the right flank strong. And to demobilize the left, several keys: the first, grievances. Montero is still the minister who has negotiated a fiscal quota for Catalonia. The concessions to the independence movement will be an axis of the campaign.
To satisfy the potential voter who went to Vox, a warning: with the PSOE there will be nothing to talk about. Of course, not with “the most ironclad Sanchista” that there is right now on the face of the earth. «I don’t see her with much intention of reaching agreements, because she has drunk from the sources of Sánchez’s politics, which is a very radical policy from the left.
On the other hand, the popular ones are confident that they will be able to retain a good part of the vote provided by the left-wing fishing grounds that they received four years ago, precisely because if Vox continues to cause a certain fear, the only one who can guarantee that it does not paint anything on the Andalusian board is Moreno.
Yesterday the president of the Board anticipated a campaign that “very tough, very dirty, on the part of the PSOE.” And about Vox: «The electoral campaign cannot be a permanent look at what Vox does. There are things on which we can agree, but there are things on which we are very far apart. “I’m not going to waste my time seeing what Vox does, or what Vox says, or what Vox proposes.” And therefore “The less said about Vox, the better”. Or what is the same: don’t yell at me, I don’t see you.