last Sunday will always be a key date for the socialism andalusian. Suddenly, the PSOE lost 402.035 vote and 14 deputies in the elections to touch ground with 33 seats. Many voters socialists changed their ballot, but a large part of them stayed in the house. Even in manors where their electorate is not failed and went every four years to an inescapable appointment. Until now.
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“I’ve Always voted on the left and on Sunday I refrained. The people are fed up of 40 years. A fundamental point has been the corruption, a lot of relationships, a lot of mangante, and people having a tough time. We believe that nothing happens, but the wolf just coming in. Susana [Diaz] has the charisma but has not fixed the errors of the party, where it has been raised”. Ignacio Ramos expresses a disenchantment that has caught on among the neighbors of Alcalá de Guadaíra (75.106 inhabitants), socialist country located on the outskirts of Seville. If in Andalusia, the abstention was the second highest since 1982, with 41,3% (2.6 million voters), in this city rose to 43.5% (24.978 neighbors).
on Sunday the PSOE came down here 12.898 to 8.680 ballots (8.4% less of the total percentage of votes) and Ahead of Andalusia declined by 9.326 to 5.861 votes. The socialists lost eight points, but with all the PSOE was the party with the most votes with 27%, followed by Citizens with the 18%, only formation that climbed up to double that percentage.
Alcalá de Guadaíra, governed during the whole of the democracy by the socialists, has been a traditional granary of votes for the PSOE as well as Two Sisters or the andalusian capital. However, the socialists have suffered from wear over the years in this industrial city, where the town Hall ruled with 18 selectmen (for a corporation of 25) until 2011. That year dropped to 13 and from 2015 governing in minority with nine councillors.
“The campaign has been very apagadita, very quiet, is Bahis Siteleri our latest style. We thought that we were going to win as always, but not. The voter is left-wing not just to find that reference in the PSOE or Hereafter Andalusia,” says Manuel Martin, secretary of Organization of the local Executive of socialist. Diaz made a stop in Alcalá de Guadaíra in the campaign with an event last November 16 to mobilise their militants, but failed to prevent the haemorrhaging of votes.
At the headquarters of the party, in the street Malasmañanas, weighed down by the hangover from Sunday. The militant José Manuel Lara says that she has “poorly digested the result,” and expresses a crude division that suffered the game two years ago. In Andalusia, the main federation of the PSOE, the internal war is felt with special force by the defeat of their leader in the primary year and a half ago in front of Pedro Sanchez. “There has been hatred and grudge against Susanna, a sea of background. And that has not been lived in democracy. [Jose Luis] Ábalos lacked time to ask for the resignation of the president”, censorship Lara.
Two streets down, Elisa Fernandez, 37 years old, has voted for the PSOE as your entire family. “I have friends who are unmotivated that they were not to vote out of laziness (…) I did Not like attitudes of Susana but I am a socialist. You may not be able to convey how well does the Board (…) Now I’m afraid of those who come now because I have not lived anything other than socialism,” he says.
At the town Hall, from the opposition, the PP council member Maria del Aguila Gutierrez highlights the internal division that suffers from the municipal socialist group. “The electorate is pissed off, has stayed at home,” says Gutierrez, who recalls how, six members of the nine that make up the Government team, have left a “phased approach” to the act in this legislature. “Here the PSOE only lost the most during the time of John War, but we saved the Party Andalucista; and now, that he governs in a minority”, he points out. The mayor, Ana Isabel Jiménez, the successor of the historic Antonio Gutiérrez Limones (21 years as a stage manager), has refused to comment for this story.
Eloisa Lara, secretary general of Youth of the municipal, admits: “Our failure has been not to convey the message that the extreme right was going to raise. Has failed us the strength to sell what we do. But also people are discouraged and too burnt to see so much of the conflict, from the general of 2016, we have not stopped,” he says. “It has been a touch of strong attention, and if you lose now, you lose the Board, which is the strength of the party”, he concludes.
A few miles, in Two Sisters (115.000 inhabitants), the PSOE also declined by seven points and 6,200 votes. Its mayor, Francisco Toscano, warns: “it is Not that our voter has been left at home, is that it has voted to Citizens and Vox. We have explained the vote to stop the coconut [referring to Vox] and people have said ‘if this is what bothers you, this vote”.
