Moreno encounters a block opposition: the useless dialogue of the Andalusian majority

Juanma Moreno expressed his capacity for dialogue in the last legislature. With a minority government, depending on the balance of the coalition with Ciudadanos and the support of Vox from outside, the president of Andalusia carried out three budgets in three and a half years. And along the way, he built an image of moderation and spirit that led the Andalusian PP to achieve the best results in its history..

After achieving the absolute majority, he wanted to maintain the formula for success and not fall into the errors of the PSOE. This legislature should be the one “of dialogue”, he repeated again and again during his investiture session, in which he renounced a “roller” that, with the passage of time, is increasingly difficult to avoid. For the second consecutive year, their budgets will have amendments to the entire PSOE, Por Andalucía and Adelante Andalucía, three of the five groups represented in the autonomous chamber. Furthermore, Moreno will have a difficult time gaining the support of Vox, which already voted against last year and with whom the relationship is increasingly tense..

The PP is on track to approve the accounts this week with its large majority, 58 of the 109 deputies, despite repeated attempts to convey an image of consensus. The popular group has Moreno's order to do everything possible to add the support of the rest of the formations. In addition, the president himself maintains initiatives to foster understanding with the opposition, such as the round of contacts he carries out with the leaders of the groups at the beginning of the political year.. In September, he proposed a great agreement to demand recognition of the uniqueness of Andalusia in Brussels, although without success..

However, the opposition denounces a change in attitude since Moreno has established himself in the absolute majority.. From the PSOE they give the processing of budgets as an example: if last year the Minister of Finance spent two hours explaining the bill in detail, this year “there has been no dialogue”. According to what they point out, it was “15 minutes” in which the technicians handed them the documents without going into depth or seeking “consensus.”. “Deep down they don't want to agree on anything,” say sources from the socialist group, which has been promoting a general debate for months on the state of Andalusian healthcare without finding support from the PP..

Furthermore, the lack of understanding with its natural partner, Vox, is increasingly notable.. If after the departure of Macarena Olona, those from Abascal were looking for their place, the last electoral cycle has ended up throwing them off.. Moreno was the first popular baron to blame them for the failure in the national elections, in a speech in the regional Parliament in which he accused them of mobilizing the vote of the left by questioning the rights of homosexual people or “setting fire to” Catalonia.. After the summer, the start of negotiations with the Government of Spain to unblock the Doñana conflict would mean the definitive distancing: the PP abandoned the irrigation law that it had processed together with Vox despite receiving criticism for its processing even from the European Union.

For some time now, the right-wing parties in Andalusia have not agreed even on the amnesty. Vox intends to promote a general debate, of a monographic nature, on the grace measure, although it does not achieve the support of the PP, without which the session cannot go ahead.. Popular sources criticize the ways of Abascal's team, who have not spoken with them before presenting the proposal, and clarify that the times of each match are different. “If at some point we want to propose it, we will propose it,” they admit privately..

The debate on the entire Budget Bill will be held in the Plenary Session of Parliament next Thursday. This Friday, before presenting its amendments to the entirety, the PSOE described the accounts as “unfair, false and wasteful” and denounced the “creative accounting” of the autonomous government by including 1,656 investments from the Government of Spain and 700 from the EU that did not have been executed this year. For Andalusia, he defined them as a “fraud” and also pointed out the lack of budget execution and Adelante Andalucía believes that “they keep Andalusia in dependence and on the periphery.”. For its part, Vox called on the president of the Board to “choose” between “the arrogance and the roller of its absolute majority”, or “the outstretched hand of Vox” during the processing, in which this formation plans to present partial amendments. In all likelihood, the PP will have to remain alone in its absolute majority.