• Rally Pedro Sánchez presses the campaign button in Andalusia and attacks Juanma Moreno

  • Common front Ximo Puig joins forces with Andalusia to press Pedro Sánchez in the reform of regional financing

  • Alianza Murcia joins Andalusia and Valencia in their alliance to demand the reform of the financing system

On September 21 at the Palacio de San Telmo, with all the tinsel and the ritual of flags, Juanma Moreno will meet with his Valencian counterpart, Ximo Puig to seal an alliance between two communities governed by

opposing parties

, the PP and the PSOE, but with a common cause, the objective mistreatment at the hands of the current regional financing model, which places the two autonomies as the worst stops, along with Murcia, in the distribution of state funds.

According to the calculations of the Junta de Andalucía itself, this community already accumulates a

financing

deficit

of about a billion euros and each day that passes that amount increases by four million more.

But it is that independent entities, such as the Foundation for Applied Economics Studies (Fedea), confirm that Andalusia is

at the

bottom

in financing per inhabitant along with Murcia and the Valencian Community, compared to regions that could be said to be over-financed, such as the case of Cantabria, the Canary Islands or La Rioja.

The summit, whose date Moreno announced this Monday in an interview on Canal Sur Radio, is the culmination of a process of

rapprochement

that began last June in Barcelona and which took place in July with the visit of the Andalusian Minister of Finance, Juan Bravo, to Valencia, in which the main lines of an alliance that has in front of the central government presided over by the socialist Pedro Sánchez were defined and that - it is not strange - does not like in the PSOE, but not in Pablo Casado's PP either.

Putting together this common front between autonomies and transversal politics has been a personal endeavor of the Andalusian president and the summit that has been set for next day 21 in Seville is an indisputable achievement that strengthens his capacity and leadership not only as president of the community Andalusian, but above all as leader of the Andalusian PP and

regional

baron

. And that is precisely what they do not like at all in Genova Street, the national headquarters of the party, where they do not like a pact with the Socialists that goes diametrically

against

the strategy set by Pablo Casado and his team.

Similar reasons have the PSOE to deny this alliance.

First, because it supposes that a regional government governed by the socialists confronts the also socialist central government and, above all, that the supreme leader, President Sánchez, is questioned, when it seemed that he had completely tied up the territorial control of the party after victories such as the that he harvested in front of Susana Díaz.

But, in addition, it is that the alliance is a shot in the foot of the

socialist

electoral strategy

in Andalusia, where the PSOE has already put itself in electoral campaign mode and where Sánchez plays it with his bet on the mayor of Seville, Juan Espadas , as a candidate for the Presidency of the Board and as the new leader of the PSOE-A.

The photograph that the Andalusian and Valencian presidents are going to take in a scene as symbolic as San Telmo is an

endorsement

of the political interests - even if the official version obviates or denies it - of Juanma Moreno.

In this sense, the act held this Sunday by the PSOE in Jaén can be interpreted, in addition to the informal start of a very long

electoral campaign

, as the attempt by the Socialists to conjure up, and neutralize, the effect of the bilateral summit.

The presence of Ximo Puig at the rally has no other explanation.

The Valencian president himself had warned his Andalusian counterpart of his presence in Jaén, as Moreno revealed today in Canal Sur, in a gesture of

courtesy

that leaves little doubt about the intention of the PSOE in organizing the act with which Sánchez opened the electoral fire on the battlefield of Andalusia with the aim of recovering the old fiefdom.

Furthermore, Espadas himself met yesterday with the Valencian president to address precisely.

the need to reform the autonomous financing model.

But the PSOE has not been the only one that has tried to counter-program the meeting between Moreno and Puig and neutralize their alliance.

The plan designed by Genoa to unite the Valencian PP with the Murcia regional government in a front against Sánchez is a

clear alternative

- and competition - to the alliance between Moreno and Puig.

It was the same general secretary of the PP, and Pablo Casado's strong man,

Teodoro García Egea

, who sponsored the alliance between the Valencian PP of Carlos Mazón and the executive of Fernando López Miras, who at first announced his intention to join the front with Andalusia and Valencia.

The Valencian PP and Murcia have allied themselves against the Executive for "silence, indifference and mistreatment" with three fundamental axes: the reform of the regional financing model, water and infrastructures.

It was on August 28 when García Egea blessed this alliance

in Torrevieja

and before 80 party officials from both communities.

This is not the first time that the interests of the Andalusian PP do not go in the same direction as those of Genoa.

In fact, in recent times there have been relatively frequent

disagreements

and even clashes, with the dispute for control of provincial structures, and in particular that of Seville, as the maximum exponent.

The

electoral advance

, or not, is another of the great points of friction between Genoa and the Andalusian PP.

Married, García Egea and the rest of the national leadership have pushed insistently in favor of anticipating the Andalusian elections to shore up the wave favorable to the PP, while Moreno and his people resist and continue to insist that there will be elections when it comes time, but not before .

Moreno has spoken along these lines this Monday, stating that his idea is to "resist" until the end of the legislature because "this is not the time to take out megaphones and banners."

Budgets will not be a problem, explained the president.

Whether they are carried out or not, although they are other laws that he considers

fundamental

and whose blocking, yes, could mark the end of the legislature.

He has not mentioned them, but in the air is the approval of the Law for the Promotion of Sustainability of the Territory of Andalusia (List) or that of ceded taxes.

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