The net of legal cases opened around the government of Pedro Sánchez, the recent resignation of the secretary of the PSOE of Madrid, Juan Lobato, the complaints of the Andalusian PSOE against the SAS contracts and the imminent celebration in Seville of the Congress of Socialists have ended for having penetrated the “Andalusian anomaly” into the political debate and They provoked the invasion of the Autonomous Chamber through tension and anger. After several exchanges of accusations of corruption, in which all political groups intervened, the fight gave an image that had not been seen in the old Cinco Llagas hospital since the most tense periods of the PSOE government and with Javier Arenas at its head. the Popular Group. The entire left-wing opposition, in a coordinated manner, left the plenary session in protest. This is the first time since Juanma Moreno has been president.
Formally, the coordinated protest between the PSOE, Por Andalucía and Adelante Andalucía was directed against the president of the Andalusian Parliament, Jesús Aguirre, whose interventions in plenary session were contested by all groups. Following a request from the PP to remove an expression linking the party to cases of corruption, the President of the House chose to remove the word “imputation” from the intervention of the spokesperson for Adelante Andalucía, José Ignacio García . Later, when the PSOE requested the withdrawal of certain accusations from the Vox spokesperson, it did not give the floor to the socialist deputy. Although he later accepted the removal of the expression against the UGT, which caused dissatisfaction with Vox. This is the trigger that caused the three left groups will rise up in a coordinated manner and they left the session without listening to the PP’s question to the Andalusian president.
It is true that all political groups have been expressing for months their discomfort with the President of the House and his management of plenary sessions, and that the management of the plenary session was a trigger. But beyond that, the protest came after a harsh exchange of accusations of corruption, from some groups against others, that ended up causing what Andalusian President Juanma Moreno said he wanted to avoid: “Don’t bring Madrid mud and showbiz politics to Seville because it won’t get you anything.” But the mud arrived and with force all the way to Parliament.
The words of Andalusian President Juanma Moreno before the control session opened fire largely in response to the harshness of the previous day’s session against Health Minister Rocío Hernández. This is a clear message to the PSOE in the run-up to its congress, which was then repeated in the plenary room: “It is unprecedented that the President of the Spanish Government has so many people under judicial investigation. He was cornered by the justice system and a political and democratic situation was generated that I don’t remember. It is a government defeated by corruption. There is hyper-leadership from Pedro Sánchez “which ate the essence of a great, necessary and historic party.”
The Andalusian opposition, for its part, had defined the scenario. Contrary to what happened during the last monitoring session, all opposition political groups openly pointed out “corruption” within the SAS for the management of emergency contracts, which caused a strong defense of the Andalusian government which has been prepared for this session template. So much so that Juanma Moreno arrived at the session accompanying Councilor Rocío Hernández, thus demonstrating her strong support for the new head of the area under investigation following complaints from the PSOE.
Espadas demanded explanations from Juanma Moreno about the judicial investigation and accused him of breaking the rules “with arguments that are not true.” He also criticized him for now being embarrassed by the complaints of the opposition whereas in his time “he acted in a film“led a political hunt against the PSOE governments”. For Andalusia he denounced “political corruption” and Adelante Andalucía attacked the management of the government: “You are sitting there because of the mismanagement of health care and the corruption of previous governments, and in five years , both things came back.”
The Andalusian president has gone on the offensive, particularly with the PSOE. He accused Espadas of having obtained emergency contracts at Seville City Hall, attacked Pedro Sánchez for the corruption investigations and for Lobato’s resignation, pointed out that Sánchez should have resigned years ago in response to Vox and above all he censored the strategy of the PSOE: “CAs Lobato says, the strategy is defined by Ferraz but they launched into a complaint with unpredictable consequences. I understand the delicate political situation you are going through, I have experienced it and I understand your urgency. But don’t cross the red line. “Don’t bring the mud from Madrid to Andalusia, because it won’t bring you any income.”
The situation worsened until the three opposition groups, in a coordinated strategy For the first time since 2018, he agreed to leave the plenary room in protest when the spokesperson of the PP and the Andalusian president intervened.
“It is an absurd strategy of the opposition political groups. There are parties dependent on Madrid who want to transfer the tension from other regions to this serene Andalusia, to this calm Andalusia which only wants to work for a better future. They want to care about the fight and the spectacle to make public opinion understand that we are all equal. They want to match us from below. “It is a murderous strategy for Andalusia and it is good neither for our territory nor for the political groups,” argued the Andalusian president. In the same vein, the spokesperson for the PP, Toni Martín, highlighted the importance of the opposition’s gesture: “I don’t know if there are precedents on this subject in Parliament, but this disqualifies the PSOE and the groups that supported it. “It’s unfortunate,” he replied.
From the PSOE and the two other left-wing opposition groups, they stressed that the abandonment of the plenary session was a response to the “cacicada and the totalitarian and absolutely partisan drift” by Jesus Aguirre. In fact, they have indicated their intention to adopt other complementary measures to express their discomfort with the management of the Autonomous Chamber.
