The PP sweeps Andalusia with a historic victory

The acting president of the Junta de Andalucía and PP candidate for re-election, Juan Manuel Moreno, won the regional elections this Sunday, achieving a historic absolute majority for his party in the former socialist fiefdom.

With 99% of the votes counted, Moreno reaches 58 seats, stops Vox's extreme right in its tracks (which obtains 14, two more than four years ago, but loses all ability to condition the Government), absorbs and strikes down Ciudadanos , which stays out of Parliament, leaving the parties of the left in the dark.

The PSOE worsens the results of 2018 ―it goes from 33 to 30―, obtains its worst historical vote in the community and goes from

to

.

For Andalusia (the coalition that brings together IU, Podemos, Más País and three other formations) has achieved a parliamentary group, with five representatives, and Adelante Andalucía achieves two, but those two leftist candidates lose ten seats compared to what was achieved with a list unitary in 2018. The last time a party obtained an absolute majority in Andalusia was 14 years ago.

Moreno is the only regional president, along with those of Galicia and Extremadura, who will enjoy this broad support.

The results represent a historic turnaround: the PP becomes the hegemonic party in Andalusia, replacing the PSOE.

It surpasses the Socialists by 28 seats and almost 670,000 votes.

The popular ones knew for three or four days from their polls that the goal of a sufficient majority was very close.

They could barely contain the euphoria at the campaign closing rally and tonight the joy exploded in all the Popular Party headquarters.

The only doubt in these elections was whether the Government would be with or without Vox and the Andalusians have made their preference clear.

Juan Manuel Moreno leads the way for the national leader of his party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in his relationship with Santiago Abascal's party.

The Andalusian baron, more baron than ever, has played several cards during his term: he carried out his first investiture and three budgets with Vox, but without abandoning the political center in a community whose voters are (or were) leaning to the left.

For the first time, the entire provincial map of Andalusia has been tinted blue.

The popular have won in all constituencies, including three of the PSOE's historical fiefdoms: Huelva, Jaén and, above all, Seville, where the socialists had not lost a single election so far: neither general, nor regional, nor municipal nor European.

A turnaround that the PP was looking for since the start of the campaign.

It has also won in the 12 largest cities, those with more than 100,000 inhabitants.

After eleven o'clock at night, Moreno has gone out to the street of San Fernando to mix with the dozens of militants who had gathered at the headquarters of the regional PP to celebrate the victory.

In a lectern, almost at the same height as the supporters, the president of the Board has emphasized the historicity of the moment and has promised to govern "with serenity and humility".

The PSOE hits the ground

The socialist candidate, Juan Espadas, signed a contract for at least two seasons at the head of the PSOE.

“From tomorrow I am head of the opposition”, he said in an appearance without questions in which he blamed the results on the lack of mobilization and questioned the institutional use of the Junta de Andalucía by the PP in the campaign.

The data of the PSOE in these elections worsens the ground that Susana Díaz pierced in 2018: she loses three seats and falls below one million votes, leaving the PSOE in a situation of extreme weakness.

The PSOE goes from the state of

of 2018 to the state of

of 2022.

Swords was elected general secretary of the PSOE 11 months ago, after winning some tough primaries against Díaz, and has chained a cascade of congresses (regional, provincial and local) to retune a party that took on its lowest hours.

That is what the PSOE has mostly dedicated itself to in the last year.

The socialist has always said in private that his project is for the medium and long term, a roadmap that he already followed in the Seville City Council when he lost resoundingly in his first election and in the following elections he became mayor .

In any case, although Ferraz anticipated at the beginning of the campaign that the Andalusians were "merely autonomous", to minimize the negative impact, it will be very difficult for the federal leadership to disengage.

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Andalusian elections 2022: the victory of Moreno Bonilla, in images

The coalition for Andalusia has been released with some terrible results and not even the fact that it has achieved its own parliamentary group with five deputies mitigates a failure that was almost sung.

The confluence of IU, Podemos and Más País and three other formations was closed on the edge of the legal deadline to register it in the registry, one month after the opening of the polls.

They arrived late in time and therefore, legally, the party that Pablo Iglesias founded does not belong to it, although there is a political link.

The agreement consists of a distribution of positions and advisers and coexistence in the parliamentary group is very difficult.

Yolanda Díaz, after the initial indifference, became deeply involved in the campaign of the candidate Inmaculada Nieto.

And if Por Andalucía is the Andalusian seed of Sumar, the journey begins full of uncertainties.

Adelante Andalucía, brand with which the left to the left of the PSOE ran in the 2018 elections led by Teresa Rodríguez, and which broke with a crash midway through the legislature, obtains two seats, in a campaign with practically no financial resources and in the that the maximum asset was Rodríguez herself, who made the two debates on RTVE and Canal Sur profitable and the nearly 600,000 followers she adds on her social networks.

Marín resigns from his positions in Cs

Ciudadanos disappears from the Andalusian Parliament.

He has not managed to overcome expectations that predicted a resounding decline and has not even managed to scratch a seat for Juan Marín, who has been vice president of the Board in this legislature, as his counterpart in Castilla y León, Francisco Igea, did.

Marín was the first of the Andalusian leaders to appear to announce his decision to make all his positions in Cs available to the party this Monday and, in addition to congratulating Moreno, he expressed his joy because Vox could not enter the Board.

The encapsulation with which the leader of the formation in Andalusia tried to isolate his coalition government to avoid being dragged by the free fall in which his party has plunged in the rest of the territory in recent years has not served for anything.

If in 2018 he was about to give the

to the PP and got 21 deputies without having entered any office, three and a half years later, after directing such relevant portfolios as Tourism, Employment, Education, Economy or Equality, he has not had any recognition.

“The PP has known how to monetize and sell the management of these years of Government”, Marín pointed out to justify the electoral blow.

A few months ago, the national leader of Cs, Inés Arrimadas, linked the fate of her party to the results in Andalusia.

A knot that since then they have made an effort to unravel, appealing to the need for the center-right space.

The election of Macarena Olona, ​​one of the national stars of Vox, as a candidate for the formation in Andalusia showed that the bet of the ultra formation for the community where it obtained parliamentary representation for the first time was high, to the point of demanding to enter the Government of the Board to reissue the support of 2018. Its objective was to maintain at least the loyalty of the almost 400,000 people who supported them in the last regional elections, but their expectations in seats, from the outset, pointed to 25. Win almost 100,000 votes, but it remains in 14 seats and will not be able to condition the policies of the PP.