Seville, (EFE).- The PP has achieved the ambitious objective of governing in all the capitals of Andalusia, with a “plenty of eight” after the pact closed in Jaén, which puts the finishing touch on a great electoral turnaround at the local level after the elections of May 28, with Seville as a symbol of a victory that can only be compared to the one that the popular ones obtained in 2011.
When the town halls are constituted tomorrow, the popular ones will have an absolute majority in Malaga, Granada, Córdoba, Cádiz and Almería; they will have a simple majority in Seville and Huelva; and now they close the circle with the pact with Jaén. It deserves more in the Jaén capital, although there it tied councilors with the PSOE and was behind in number of votes.
The only agreement with Vox will be in Huelva, where they have sealed a “programmatic” investiture pact, despite not being necessary, which they have justified by facilitating the management of the city and carrying out projects that both parties shared in their programs.
The rest of the large Andalusian cities join the list of PP capitals: Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), Marbella (Málaga), Roquetas de Mar (Almería) and Algeciras (Cádiz), some of them with more inhabitants than several of the provincial capitals. The only red point will continue to be Dos Hermanas (Seville), a historic socialist stronghold.
The popular take this result as the second endorsement in less than a year for the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, who based his campaign on proposing the same management model as the Junta, where he has had an absolute majority for a year.
Jaén puts the climax
In addition, in the PP of Andalusia they understand that it is a new step to “close the circle” of the change of cycle, with their sights set on repeating a great result in the general elections on July 23.
The pact announced this Friday between the PP and the provincialist formation Jaén Deserves More, which will evict the PSOE from the Mayor’s Office so that the popular Agustín González can take office, is the culmination of this formation, which has had to negotiate support until the last moment of those three ediles, who held the key to governance.
That formation has negotiated with the PP and the PSOE, and the Socialists came to offer him the Mayor’s Office, despite the difference in councillors, as a last attempt, but the proposal was declined.
From the leadership of the PP-A they always hoped to achieve this government agreement, for which they considered a fundamental incentive to be governing at the regional level.
Seville, a hard blow for the PSOE
The victory of José Luis Sanz in Seville, which recovers the mayor’s office of the Andalusian capital for the PP, has dealt a severe blow to the PSOE, which had its main municipal government in all of Spain in it. In the PP, both Moreno and Feijóo set it as an example as “the defeat of sanchismo” that they are looking for in the next general elections.
Very different is the situation in the capital of Malaga, where Francisco de la Torre (80 years old and six victories since 2000) returned to sweep. In this city, the doubts in the PP were limited to the number of councilors with which the councilor would win, who finally returned to an absolute majority, taking advantage of the disappearance of Cs.
In the capitals of Córdoba and Almería, problems were not foreseen to maintain the mayoralties and the forecasts were fulfilled: absolute majorities for José María Bellido and María del Mar Vázquez.
A “bet” in Granada that turned out to be a winner
Moreno’s difficult decision to dispense with one of his main advisors, Marifrán Carazo, so that she could run in the municipal elections in Granada, where the party had suffered a significant division in recent years, was the winner, also by an absolute majority.
In Cádiz, the victory by an absolute majority “in extremis” of Bruno García returns the local government to the popular after eight years of left-wing with José María González “Kichi” at the helm”.
In the capital of Huelva, whose province has been immersed in the campaign in the Doñana irrigation controversy, the PP won with Pilar Miranda, who was running for the first time and will be the mayor after an investiture agreement signed this Friday with Vox, although she did not need to be elected in tomorrow’s plenary session. EFE