The President of the Junta de Andalucía and the Andalusian PP, Juanma Morenowill repeat “in principle” as candidate for the 2026 regional elections because he claims that the region “is not prepared to introduce elements of uncertainty and instability” although, yes, he rules out “staying in power” as did the socialist Manuel Chaves, who spent 19 years at the head of the Andalusian government.
“That I will be The time Chaves was there, I already told him noOne thing is that I am trying, with my team, to consolidate a long-term political project, reformist, liberal, socially committed and centrist, and another thing is that I want to stay in power, among other things, because it is very “very exhausting on a personal level,” Moreno said in an interview with Onda Cero collected by Europa Press.
The PP-A leader also defended that the mandate limited to eight years It is an “interesting formula” because “it imposes a forced renewal of staff and when new teams enter, new skills enter, different angles of vision of society and problems which refresh the institutions”.
Juanma Moreno, however, indicated that this limitation poses “problems”. When you take responsibility for the company, for your teams, you convince people to come and work with you, you You can’t say overnight that I’m leavingbecause it is not easy to replace party leaders, and even more so in Andalusia, where it has taken us so many years and so many decades to achieve this goal of being the favorites of the Andalusians, as we are now,” he added.
He then acknowledged that, “in principle”, he intended to aspire again to the presidency of the Board of Directors in the next regional elections to be held in 2026, because the opposite would be “to introduce the party, and above all, society, into a point of uncertainty and at this time Andalusia is not here to introduce elements of uncertainty and instability.
According to him, “Andalusia has made a decision growth pathwe have grown above the Spanish and European average for almost six years, changing our reputation projection, doing things that were not done before, working, with its lights and shadows, but working well, and I believe that this dynamic should not I will lose it.
“It’s very exhausting”
He explained that he rules out being at the head of the Council “at the time when Chaves was”, who reached the age of 19 in San Telmo “going through different vicissitudes, sometimes with a majority, in agreement with IU and the AP. I tell you already no, one thing is that I try, with my team, to consolidate a long-term political project, reformist, liberal, socially committed and centrist, and another thing is that I want to perpetuate myself in power, among other things, because It’s very, very exhausting on a personal level.” he acknowledged.
He was asked if he thought Pedro Sanchez If he aspires to join Chaves’ years of power in Andalusia, the Prime Minister is convinced that “he would like to be there until the end” because he has “an obsession with power that breathes reasonable behavior in democratic terms.”
“I heard that the president was going to govern despite the legislative power, he failed despite the judicial power, when you have that desire, when you are more interested in survival than in governing for the Spanish people as a whole, when you put the personal interest above general “Of the Spanish people and your own party, you obviously have a problem and that problem is an obsession with power, an obsession with continuing to be president, no matter what it costs and no matter who it costs,” he concluded.
“The Andalusian PSOE is not even a shadow of what it was”
He is asked if he prefers Juan Espadas As a PSOE-A candidate for the Governing Council in 2026, Juanma Moreno assured that he “wishes him the best” but it is a matter that he and his party colleagues must “decide” and then adds that “he misses the PSOE of before”, not the one from the ERE, but the one that defended the interests of Andalusia and he had a vision of the state“.
“The PSOE in Andalusia is not even a shadow of what it has become in recent decades, it has become a bad branch of sanchismo, without its own voiceunable to make a critical judgment on the attacks that are occurring in Spain to the detriment of Andalusia and other autonomous communities,” added the president of the PP-A, who clarified that “I have never voted for the PSOE, but yes, I believe that it is necessary for the democratic system and that Spain functions better, despite the criticisms of the two-party system, with two political forces that are clear on the concept of the State and on the general interest of the Spain of the people with their singularities and their different vision of society.
