The Andalusian PSOE activates the electoral button | Spain

Finishes the provincial congresses and the point of completing those of the 808 local groups, the PSOE of Andalusia activates the electoral button. The Director Committee, the highest decision -making body between Congresses, will appoint the campaign committee on Friday and approve the deadlines for the election in primary in the month of June of its candidate for the presidency of the Junta de Andalucía. Everyone assumed that there will be no spontaneous and that The general secretary, María Jesús Montero, It will be proclaimed without competing, but in any case you have to have designed that internal calendar. The Socialists want to introduce Montero as « the candidate on the left. »

The Andalusian elections are scheduled for the spring of 2026 and nothing suggests that there will be an advance this year, according to the repeated statements of the president of the Board, Juan Manuel Moreno. He maintains that there is no objective reason to anticipate the elections, since he has an absolute majority and, therefore, guaranteed support to move forward from October 2025 the last budgets of the legislature. Only in the event that « there was a foreign phenomenon or a greater cause of happening something very serious, » Moreno would consider calling the Andalusians to the polls, he said last December to the Chain ser. Before the Andalusians the elections are planned in Castilla y León.

In the PSOE you do not work with the calculation of the advance, as was clear at the meeting held last Monday of Montero with the eight provincial secretaries, prior to that of the Plenary of the Regional Executive. But they are « forced » not to rule it out, sources of the management point out, so it is intended to enter into an electoral mode with a campaign committee invested with all the powers – it must be authorized by the Federal Directorate – from which all executive decisions emanate. From there, the preparations and the approval of calendars will begin for the elaboration and presentation of the electoral program and the design of the campaign.

In the PSOE, it is speculated on what Moreno said in Onda Cero about the « possibility », according to him, to match the general elections with the Andalusians, and of, if by launching that hypothesis, the Andalusian baron is looking for an « excuse » to get out of that eventuality. In the government and the PSOE insist that Pedro Sánchez will exhaust until 2027but there are more and more Andalusian socialist leaders who believe that this coincidence would be good for them because it would increase participation and their main enemy is abstention.

It is assumed that the campaign committee in that group will be the Deputy Secretary General and spokesman of the Parliamentary Group, María Márquez; the Secretary of Organization, Paco Rodríguez; the coordinator of Political Communication and Training, Fernando López Gil; the electoral action coordinator, Demetrio Pérez; and the secretary deputy to the Ministry of Organization, Alejandro Moyano. Its objective is to « work to win » the elections, PSOE sources point out. These people are part of the core of the Directorate in permanent contact with the General Secretary, which prioritizes their activity as the first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance and whose government agenda conditions that of the Andalusian PSOE.

María Jesús Montero will be proclaimed candidate for the presidency of the Board in June, according to PSOE sources. He is the third person who assumes this responsibility in the last three calls and will take the game at its lowest election moment. The last socialist president, Susana Díaz, won the elections in 2018, but lost the Board. Left the socialist parliamentary group in 33 out of a total of 109 deputies. His relay, Juan Espadas, horated even more: he went down to 30 seats in the autonomous 2022; And now Montero arrives with the mission of refloating a ship that has lost the last four electoral appointments in Andalusia (regional, general, municipal and European). His goal is to mobilize the progressive vote, not only to the socialist, but in the PSOE he begins to present to Montero as « the candidate of the left », not only of a part of that block.

In the PSOE they know that the road is hard and its data (those handled by the Federal Executive and the Moncloa) appreciate a brunette wear after six years and four months as president, but the popular maintains its strength, as it corroborates the latest survey of the Andalusian Studies Center. « It is not easy, but there are options, » they point out from the Socialist Directorate.