Montero asks for the reunification of the parties to the left of the PSOE to avoid “the metabolic waste of the vote” | Spain

Seville. Dolores Friday. San Vicente Street, 37. Headquarters of the PSOE of Andalusia. The General Secretary of the Formation, María Jesús Monterochange the government office for the party and meets with the secretary general of UGT Andalucía, Oskar Martín, with whom he shared space in a mass demonstration (20,000 people, according to the Government Subdelegation) in protest of the deterioration of public health Last Saturday. Montero warm electoral engines, by the time the president of the Board, Juan Manuel Moreno, summons Andalusian elections that they say they will be when they touch (June 2026).

But in addition to the weakness in which the PSOE is, which obtained the worst result in its history in the autonomous 2022, the socialists also have another problem: Voting fragmentation of the games to your left. That concern is very real and that is why Montero has made a call to the « need for reunification » of that space to try not only to snatch the absolute majority from the PP of Moreno, but also for the left to add more than the right -wing block. That was always the case until the 2018 elections, when PP, Citizens and Vox occupied the first position. In the following, Juan Manuel Moreno devastated and took out an absolute majority.

To questions from the journalists, Montero has asked the parties to their left in Andalusia to join, « respecting their rhythm and also the preferences that each one has. » « The left of this autonomous community, the progressives of Andalusia, we cannot afford to be distracted or part of the progressive vote that does not translate into real seats that change the lives of people, » says Montero. To the left of the PSOE there are two formations with parliamentary representation: by Andalusia, which are part of the United Left, Podemos, Sumar Movement and three other minority formations; and forward Andalusia, the Gaditana activist party Teresa Rodríguez. The first has its own parliamentary group with the minimum of deputies required (five); and the second obtained only two seats.

Montero dreams that these two formations join, something that does not enter the head of either of these two groups because they drag not only a deep mutual distrust, but also a long list of complaints and because in themselves they are the Brotherhood of the Holy Reproach. Go ahead has already launched its internal calendar and has chosen its candidate for the presidency of the Board (the Cadiz José Ignacio García) and the rest of the provincial list heads. In by Andalusia, IU is confident that before summer it is clear that we can decide that they want to repeat coalition, but this time is elastic and they already speak postpone it to September. In this confluence they recognize that there are wicker to leave « because there is no choice, » says a source of Pode Irene Montero and Pablo Iglesias.

The general secretary of the Andalusian socialists has come to say that the division of the offer to their left is a luxury: “The left of this autonomous community, the progressives of Andalusia, we cannot afford to be distracted or part of the progressive vote that does not translate into real seats that change the lives of the people. And there are times that the confluence of several political formations in the same province makes no one. I call him, they forgive me professional deformation, a metabolic waste of the vote.

Montero has encouraged to « have the greatest profitability of the left vote. » The messages from this type that are launched from the PSOE do not like the recipients to whom they are addressed, because, although they share it, they consider it an intrusion and also the political coexistence with the socialists has always been the cause of the divisions to see who is more of the left and less “subordinate”