Montero, a controlled candidate in three parliaments | Spain

For Andalusian socialists, María Jesús Montero It is « the boss. » For the Andalusian PP of Juan Manuel Moreno is « the lady. » Since he added to his positions as the First Vice President of the Government (and occasionally, president in functions), Minister of Finance and Deputy Secretary General Socialist that of General Secretary of the PSOE of Andalusia and, therefore, candidate for the presidency of the Junta de Andalucía, Mrs. Chief is in all the targets of the opposition, morning and afternoon, in the courts and in the Andalusian Parliament. She dispatches criticism of the accumulation of charges with irony: « Men are super and women disperse. »

It was already disapproved by the Autonomous Chamber in October 2019 for the financing of the community and Last week it was in the Senate – where the PP has an absolute majority –for the same reason, for the increase in fiscal burden and for your statements about the Alves case. The reprobation has no legal effect, but it leaves there to which it approves for a while, although in the case of Andalusia this will not be possible because it has already entered into electoral cannibalism: Moreno is played its absolute majority and the PSOE, its survival in an elections planned for June 2026. And, Eye, what worries are the municipal ones of the 2027, where the real power of the PSOE is.

Montero is the protagonist star in parliamentary sessions. In Congress, in the Senate and in the Regional Parliament, where it has no seat. Since she was elected leader of Andalusian PSOE, there is no deputy of the PP who does not go up to the pertrened tribune with an argument against her. It doesn’t matter what is talk about. And the president of the Chamber or those who replace it are either to protect the absent. « Mrs. Lie, » the Vice President of Parliament called her a few weeks ago. « The Lady of the banner, » he described last Thursday The president of the Board, Juan Manuel Morenofor participating in a mass demonstration (20,000 people, according to the subdelegation of the Government) for the deterioration of health. The Andalusian government considers that these protests are politicized and bullowed by the PSOE, but as the spokesman for Andalusia, José Ignacio García, said, « I would like the PSOE to be able to mobilize 20,000 people. » The unions, in this sense, are key in Moreno’s wear strategy, the first step to be seen as an alternative.

The regional executive has thrown pyrotechnics and blames the huge waiting lists in Andalusian health today and delays in primary care, not to its management or for the purposes of the pandemic that made phosphatin the entire system, but to “the lady who in the past dismissed 7,000 toilets,” said several deputies of the PP, gathering the cuts the great recession; Or, as the Andalusian President said, « the counselor who has done more damage to public health. » Montero left 12 years ago the Ministry of Health of the Board, then passed to that of the Treasury and has been in the central government for seven years. « The past in Andalusia is already you, president, » replied the socialist and vice -secretary of general, María Márquez (35 years).

Socialists are spoiled for the success of the protest about the deterioration of health and believe that health management and judicial investigations For contracts in the Andalusian Health Service They are the Achilles heel of Moreno. They are also happy with Montero because they finally have a leader. The empty offices of the regional headquarters of the Sevillian Street of San Vicente begin to have owners.

The eight provincial groups have renewed their executives and the 808 local groups have to do so before May 31, anticipating in a month to the expected. The Permanent Commission of the Executive (composed of 20 people) was established last Monday and there is another smaller coordination body than the orders emanate. « The Andalusian PSOE is always returning to what has always been, » says a provincial leader who proclaims « the end of the perverse cycle in the party » after the battle of the last socialist president of the Board, Susana Díaz, and Pedro Sánchez.

But that the mood of the socialist leaders has changed does not hide what many of them see: the PSOE is manga per shoulder, there is disorder in a very large organization (40,000 militants) and very, very slow. And there is no time to apply a long -term treatment, because the elections are one year after there is no preview. And it also worries that some groupings occur to leisure and dedicate themselves to the best of the socialists when they have no task: to break down.

Montero is clear that his short -term mission is when they are the elections, is to mobilize not only the socialist militancy but the progressive electorate. And they believe in the PSOE that the siege to which the PP is submitting to all levels does not weaken it, but « help give it prominence. » Naturally, in the PP they think otherwise. In this party there are those who believe that the Montero’s statement about the sentence of Alves – « What shame the sentence of Dani Alves! What shame that the testimony of a victim is still questioned and it is said that the presumption of innocence is ahead! » « She is not silly, it is a radical speech to attract the voter of the left wing, because she knows that in the center -right has nothing to do, » popular sources say.

As the First Vice President and Deputy Secretary General Socialist, María Jesús Montero has external help. Sources of the Andalusian PSOE management say that now the Secretaries of State and the General Secretaries of the Ministries lend more ears to Andalusian projects (the Government announced last week investments for 472 million euros); And Ferraz attends the electoral analysis to put an end to the chaos that reigned with Juan Espadas, when there were several groups playing with the data, something unusual in a game that was once very professional. After Holy Week, the Andalusian Studies Center (Centra), the Andalusian Cisdependent on the Ministry of the Presidency, plans to publish the barometer of the first quarter of the year. The socialists do not expect good news, on the contrary, hence they are already warning them so that they do not fall in the second they know how to do the best after being outlined: depressed.