[Politics] The Socialists call not to fall into discouragement to "reconquer" Andalusia

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CC OO opposes the pact with the PP and asks the Secretary General, Juan Espadas, to present an amendment to the entire budget

The PSOE of Andalusia celebrates its 14th Regional Congress occupying the hard banks of the opposition. He is not in his best form after winning the elections three years ago, but losing the Junta de Andalucía after almost 37 continuous years in power. Everyone is aware that to return to compete on an equal footing with the PP they need to rebuild the party, unite broken pieces and, furthermore, make its 46,000 militants and all its public officials believe that the "reconquest" of Andalusia, as the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, is possible in the next Andalusian elections.

The objective of this 14th congress, held this weekend in Torremolinos (Malaga). that will ratify the new team of the secretary general, Juan Espadas, is none other than raising vital signs that are below minimum, as recognized by many leaders. They have been aware of this since they held the primaries to elect their candidate for the Junta de Andalucía, who beat Espadas by 55% of the votes to Susana Díaz. There they verified, when they toured the 800 socialist groups, that the capillarity of yesteryear with Andalusian society was something else, almost a mirage.

Montero knows the Andalusian PSOE well and the effect that the results of the polls have on this cyclothymic organization. All those published in the last year and a half give the winning PP and the PSOE, with worse results than the 33 seats they took on December 2, 2018. The Minister of Finance reminded the 520 delegates and 2,000 guests that the PSOE “ it has always had the strength of door to door ”and of being embedded in the entire Andalusian associative fabric. “If they believe that, as a result of the survey, we will become discouraged and they are going to demobilize us, they are wrong. We are going to regain the trust of the citizens. Here we are prepared, that they call the elections whenever they want ”. The same words said the deputy secretary general, Adriana Lastra: "Let Moreno call whenever he wants."

Those who preceded them in the word also appealed to the need for the PSOE to recover its state of mind, to "reset" the project, said the president of Congress and general secretary of the PSOE of Malaga, José Luis Ruiz Espejo. "[The Andalusians] are waiting for us, we are going to meet them," he said. And Juan Espadas, in a brief speech, proclaimed: “We are back! Go for them! ”, After demanding“ unity ”from his people to regain the confidence of the citizens.

 

Torremolinos
The Andalusian Socialists have chosen Torremolinos (Malaga) for their congress because it was here that the Andalusian Socialist Federation (FSA) was founded with José Rodríguez de la Borbolla as first secretary in 1977 and that two years later was renamed the Spanish Socialist Workers Party of Andalusia . This option then won against those who defended to eliminate the E for Spanish and replace it with the A for Andalusia (PSOA).

But the tribute to the founders - Rafael Escuredo, De la Borbolla, Carlos Sanjuán, José Asenjo and Cándido Méndez - buried the leaders who also built this party and who led the Andalusian PSOE to chain victory after electoral victory. Neither in the photographs that are displayed in the Torremolinos Conference Center, nor in the commemorative video nor in the speeches, were Manuel Chaves (19 years as president), José Antonio Griñán (four) and Susana Díaz (six) mentioned. The first two are condemned by the case of the ERE and waiting for the Supreme Court to ratify or not the sentence of the Seville Court. Díaz is now a senator, talkative and led the PSOE when the Junta de Andalucía lost. The former president is expected to attend today as a guest, but the socialists have quickly turned the page of their mandate because they urgently need to “reconnect” with the citizens and for that, unity or discipline is the best medicine.

The management of Díaz's team has not been voted on, because there is no one who can defend it. The former president stopped being secretary general in July and her number two and secretary of Organization, Juan Cornejo, resigned to avoid susceptibilities with the Espadas team. The parliamentary spokeswoman and next deputy secretary general, Ángeles Férriz, has made no mention of the loss of the Junta de Andalucía in a kind of political report in which she has made a timid self-criticism: "We are going to listen to those who did not know how to listen" . Nor does Espadas bet on looking back as he did in the primaries.

The Socialists have the starting point to regain muscle tone with the majority unions in Andalusia. The general secretary of Workers' Commissions, Nuria López, raised the audience with her defense of the "brutal effort" of the central government to protect workers during the pandemic. He also demanded the repeal of the labor reform and left a message to Espadas not to agree with the Moreno Government on the regional accounts for next year: "There is no room for partial amendments to the 2022 Budget, but an amendment to the whole," he said. . The general secretary of the UGT, Carmen Castilla, who charged against the Andalusian Government for "privatizing public services", did not join this proposal.

The Socialists are closer to not supporting the budget, they say because it does not incorporate their requests. But there are many doubts in the PSOE about this operation, because some believe that it will breathe oxygen into Moreno, whom they have been reproaching for almost three years for his pact with the extreme right. Although the Andalusian president affirms that the extension of the accounts will not condition his decision to call early elections, the debate on the advance has been installed in Andalusia for many months and all the parties are in electoral mode.

LINK: https://elpais.com/espana/2021-11-06/los-socialistas-llaman-a-no-caer-en-el-desanimo-para-reconquistar-andalucia.html