José Luis Sanz is already mayor of Seville after a journey of 600 days. It is the time that has passed since he was appointed candidate of the PP in the Andalusian capital with the blessings of the then leader of the PP, Pablo Casado. The majority of 14 councilors that the popular party obtained on May 28 have been enough for the election of the former councilor of Tomares. PSOE and Con Andalucía have the same number of councilors, with 12 for the socialists and 2 for the leftists, but in the event of a tie, the list with the most votes, headed by Sanz, prevails. The 3 Vox councilors have voted for themselves, but the new mayor will have to look for the formation of Santiago Abascal to be able to carry out their projects or the municipal budgets.

“I am José Luis Sanz, they say that I am serious and I hate neglect and disorganization”, the Seville councilor presented himself, who has given his “success model” as an example in Tomares, the city of the metropolitan area that he has governed for 15 years and that it is the city with the highest income in Andalusia. Among the challenges that the popular leader will face is the problem of cleaning, the elimination of poverty in neighborhoods such as Polígono Sur and the lack of mobility infrastructure, such as the extension of the Seville metro, which currently has only one line of the four screened in the early 2000s. “I will be an uncomfortable mayor whoever governs in Moncloa governs,” Sanz snapped.

With the appointment of Sanz, the PP recovers the Andalusian capital after 8 years in the hands of the PSOE in a historic day for the popular, since they have achieved plenary session in the 8 Andalusian capitals after the agreement in Jaén with Jaén Deserves More. It already happened in 1995 and 2011, the two previous milestones in the municipal expansion of the Andalusian PP, although on this occasion the popular ones accumulate unprecedented institutional power, since they also control 6 of the 8 councils and the Junta de Andalucía. The coup in Seville was especially painful for the PSOE, since it was the big city in the hands of the Socialists and within the party they were convinced of the victory of Antonio Muñoz, who has taken possession of his act as councilor and will be the leader of the opposition, although it is on the lists of the PSOE to the Senate.

The president of the Board, Juanma Moreno, has been in the Colón room of the Seville City Council to support his candidate. It must be remembered that Moreno and Sanz were organic rivals when the succession of Juan Ignacio Zoido as leader of the Andalusian PP was opened. The man from Malaga prevailed with the blessing of Mariano Rajoy and since then he has always been on the opposite side of Sanz. The victories of both have ended up smoothing out any roughness and, in fact, Sanz has used the head of the Andalusian Executive as one of his main assets of the campaign.

“We have worked together with complicity, and we will continue to do so”, said the mayor in his speech, in which he thanked the president of the Board for his involvement. Moreno was in five acts with the already mayor, who has insisted a lot on the advantages that Seville will have for having a president of the Board of the same political color. “The synergies with the Junta are going to be a real boost for this city”, Sanz has settled.

Sanz has already designed his government, which has caused him a slap on the wrist from Vox. The spokesperson for Santiago Abascal's party, Cristina Peláez, has shown herself willing to collaborate with the popular ones to avoid an “unstable government”. The leader of the PSOE, in his speech, defended the eight years of socialist management, which will still be noted in the coming years with projects such as the expansion of the tram, which will be assumed by the popular José Luis Sanz, who has promised not to be a revisionist with the legacy of his predecessor.

Juanma Moreno's route

Before passing through Seville, Juanma Moreno was at the investiture of Bruno García as mayor of Cádiz and in the afternoon he will go to Granada, where Marifrán Carazo assumes the position after being the Minister of Development for the man from Malaga during his first 5 years on the Board. They are two of the cities that the PP has recovered and where the popular will have an absolute majority. Both were deputies in the Andalusian Parliament and are the most palpable example of the need for renewal faced by the popular in the regional Chamber. The same happens in Córdoba, Almería and Málaga, the three cities that were already in popular hands before May 28..

The PP has also recovered, now without an absolute majority, Huelva and Jaén. In the Huelva capital, Pilar Miranda has achieved the investiture alone, but has reached a governance agreement with Vox. Jaén was the last capital to fall to the popular side after several weeks of talks with Jaén Merece Más. The provincial formation will be incorporated into the government of the Jaén capital, which remains in the hands of the popular Agustín González Romo. The general secretary of the Andalusian PP and one of those responsible for the popular success of 28-M, Antonio Repullo, has been in the city to support the new councilor.