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Juan Espadas, mayor of Seville and candidate in the Andalusian PSOE primaries, arrived in Granada this Sunday listening to the soundtrack of La Misión, by Ennio Morricone, and not by chance. Espadas has started his campaign in the capital of Granada to become the next candidate for the Junta de Andalucía, proclaiming that he has a mission, to unite a divided party, inject into it the illusion that it has lost and give it back the lost power. And he has presented himself as the only one capable of doing so, in front of his great rival, the general secretary, Susana Díaz, whom, without mentioning her, he has identified with the confrontation and whom he has blamed for the humiliation that they supposed for Andalusian socialism the 2018 elections in which they lost the Andalusian government after 37 uninterrupted years.

Espadas has officially presented himself before the almost 45,000 militants of the Andalusian PSOE as the candidate of each one of them and has tried from minute one to shake off the sponsored label of Pedro Sánchez, to make him forget that the federal leadership has indicated him with the finger and that has the support not only of Ferraz, but also of Moncloa.

The appeal to the militant will be, according to Espadas himself, one of the keys to a campaign in which the two great rivals are going to fight for the vote of each affiliate and are going to dispute the proximity to the bases.

Díaz intends to emulate Pedro Sánchez himself when he won the other primaries in which they fought and presents himself as the candidate of the militancy in front of the apparatus - which would be Espadas - and the mayor of Seville is not willing to have that flag taken away.

For this reason, in the public presentation of the candidacy of Espadas, the party leaders have not played a leading role.

Neither organic nor institutional positions have been in the front row to support the mayor of Seville, despite the fact that he has the express support of at least three of the Andalusian provincial groups, those of Jaén, Cádiz and Granada.

Only the secretary general of the latter, José Entrena, in his capacity as host of the event, has addressed a few words.

It has been three grassroots militants, a teacher, a professor and a young activist, who have taken the stage to act as opening act and encourage a scarce and limited audience in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Espadas, the candidate of the militancy, our candidate, could be the summary of the three interventions that have preceded him.

He himself has influenced this idea and has assured that a militant is not only a vote, but also is "an idea, an illusion and a part of the project", in which, likewise, he wants to put at the center mayors and councilors.

Municipalism, Espadas has emphasized, has a lot to say and to decide and on the 458 mayors and 4,200 socialist councilors in Andalusia it wants to build "change", its change.

All of this adding and stacking wounds because Espadas, in addition to all of the above, has presented himself to his socialist electorate as the champion of internal unity, the person capable of re-uniting a divided PSOE-A.

Unity has been one of the most repeated words by Espadas in Granada this Sunday.

"This is going to be the candidacy of the unit," he solemnly proclaimed.

Unity in the face of the confrontation that he has denied and that he has attributed, without naming it, to Susana Díaz.

"Others have wanted to start this process talking about confrontation and that is the big mistake," criticized Espadas, for whom "only a united and strong PSOE" can get back to San Telmo, the seat of the Andalusian government.

"The confrontation is already well, we have to be united to change, and change to govern."

But these were not the only darts he has thrown at the secretary general.

Likewise, Espadas has highlighted that only with him will there be an authentic self-criticism of December 2, 2018, of the regional elections that led the PSOE-A to the opposition for the first time in its history.

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