The PP can’t contain their joy over Juanma Moreno’s historic victory. She not only won the best match in Andalusia (the quintessential socialist fiefdom), but also managed to eliminate Vox and its influence for the first time since 2004. A day after the overwhelming absolute majority of this community (58 seats and 1.6 millions votes), the results of the leadership were read. They can be extrapolated to national levels and point out that Pedro Sanchez is now the Presidency. “Yesterday (for Sunday), the clock was started by a countdown for Sanchez’s departure from Moncloa,” stated Elias Bendodo, general secretary of popular.
The idea that Andalusia’s events have broken “the last ceiling” for the PP in electoral terms has been adopted by the first opposition party. They are now capable of achieving an absolute majority in the next general election. Bendodo said that the PP could achieve great achievements in the future. He believes the 19-J result is a sign of how far the conservatives will go with Alberto Nunez Feijoo as their leader. Popular ones are based on the fact that Andalusia is home to 8.5 million people, according to its general coordinator. He stressed that the PP was no longer an opposition but the alternative.
Feijoo gave the order to not throw the bells at the fly despite the joy and the celebrations. Prudence will continue to prevail within their ranks. Genoa is not certain that Sanchez will survive the legislative end without pressing the red button. However, they won’t be aggressively seeking the electoral advance. They insist that Sanchez, the leader of PSOE, will win the polls whenever it suits him most, “without thinking about the Spaniards and his pocket.” The popular ones will still be “on” when that time comes. He will continue to contact the Executive in an effort to close a state pact. This includes the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary. His proposal is currently being finalized by the national leadership.
To be the “alternative to sanchismo”, they claim that Feijoo used the same leadership recipe since he assumed the reins of the party. They also say that it is a faithful representation of What Moreno did in Andalusia, which the voters have rewarded with moderation and management. They agree that it is necessary to leave behind the “trenches”, “insults” in order to focus on politics through the moderate route. The reference path is the path through the middle. Vox cannot stop it. “Moreno himself defended Vox on Monday. Now converted into the baron de reference in the PP.
Isabel Diaz Ayuso from the other shore was able to contain the extreme right in Madrid last year’s elections. Her style and slogans are very similar those of Santiago Abascal. She is far from the moderation of her Andalusian counterpart. The Madrid leader, apparently unaffected by 19-J’s scrutiny, is unwilling to “change one millimeter” the policy she has in the Community of Madrid. Neither will she be confronted with Moreno and Feijoo after all the wounds are closed and the waters have returned their course between Puerta del Sol, Genoa.
They claim moderation is not a recipe against Vox, but “an attitude”, because citizens “do not want tension.” Bendodo said, “It’s an indication of identity.” This party’s DNA will be maintained in the next election appointments, because “it has been proven that the PP, when it is from the center, achieves tremendous results.” They believe that the national leadership must have “one foot in center” and “steer to right and left.”
The popular ones know that Vox will not change their relationship with them, “one more legislative force, just as the PSOE and Adelante Andalucia.” Bendodo took this opportunity to show his inability to self-criticism to the extreme right. He expected to win twice as many seats but has only added two more. And, incidentally to lower the smoke of Macarena Olona who claimed to be the head of the opposition shortly before. He was reminded by a paper that the number three on the PP corresponds to only the socialist Juan Espadas.
Vox has a bitter taste from 19-J’s scrutiny. They still have two seats, 12-14, that Macarena Olona won in the Andalusian parliament. This acidity is worse than the one that engulfed the party in Madrid after the May 2021 elections. The extreme right has played with the expectations. Rocio Monasterio also saw Olona’s attempt to condition Isabel Diaz Ayuso’s Presidency was unsuccessful. Olona doesn’t even have the consolation that Juanma Moreno would not have stayed at those gates without achieving the absolute majority. Vox, which had invented “the seized right” to hate the moderation of Alberto Nunez Feijoo with no margin of influence and in bewilderment, has been overwhelmingly defeated by the PP.
Andalusia is not for the radical right. Madrid and Castilla y Leon are both conservative, but Andalusia was not created by them. There are two presidents of PP who are more likely to reach an agreement with them, one in Madrid and one in Castilla y Leon. Feijoo, while embracing Ayuso’s strategy and agreeing with the Castilian–Leon pact has never made it clear that he will not accept Vox, a flag Moreno raised this 19-J. The rift between these two families has led to an unprecedented capitalization by the PP of the useful vote, resulting in an historic absolute majority in Andalusia.
Olona, realizing that her demands in the campaign are no longer relevant, chose to celebrate the 19-J result by contrasting it with United We Can and the PSOE Executive. He said, “It’s good for Spain because Andalusia rejected socialism and Pedro Sanchez government”, before explaining that Vox had established itself as an alternative, and hiding behind the fact “what’s important isn’t so much the number of seats but what to do with them.” Olona was “firm” that she would continue to be a member of the Andalusian parliament. She also stated that she was a “daughter” of God and that she does not know what the future holds.