Today’s map of Andalusia’s left has nothing to do the 2015 election map. From those elections emerged a coalition of Podemos, IU, Adelante Andalucia. It declared itself ready to stop the rights and regain the spirit and character of the 15M despite having lost 300,000. votes compared with 2012 when both formations were able to agree separately. The objective was compromised midway through the legislative process. The split between the leader of Podemos’ national leadership, Teresa Rodriguez (the leader of the coalition), and the leader of the coalition ended in disagreement. Rodriguez retained the ‘Adelante brand, and Podemos & IU went to the elections under the ‘Por Andalucia. This split has had its consequences: Yesterday, the alternative left added 7 seats (5 For Andalusia & 2 Forward Andalusia), compared to the 17 Forward won in 2018.
The provincial level has the fall returns as the alternative to 2012. Izquierda Unida was appointed a deputy at that point. Three years later Podemos flooded in with two parliamentarians, who didn’t detract form the role of IU which retained a seat. They accounted for two seats in 2018. Yesterday, the Granadans only gave one seat to Por Andalucia, Alejandra Duran. Adelante Andalucia, which received half of the votes, was left without representation.
Inma Nieto (leader of Por Andalucia) added figures to show the ‘bill’ the left paid for the split. With the focus on the 100% border, she said that “the percentage achieved by our coalition and Adelante Andalucia leads to us to a similar result to that which the extreme right has obtained.” She also mentioned Adelante. “The electoral destruction it is causing will be visible to the political force that didn’t join the coalition.”
Nieto believes that the electoral advance has hurt them, and “the absolute majority (PP) does not bring anything to Andalusia.” He insisted that the right is the adversary to the left, which agrees on the necessity of a “meeting”.
