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«The Taking begins.

For Spain".

Emulating Isabel la Católica, the already official Vox candidate for the Presidency of the Andalusian Government, Macarena Olona, ​​wanted her first message after her appointment to be a

declaration of intent

.

Formally appointed this Thursday by the national executive committee of her party, Olona is used to not going unnoticed wherever she goes and the Andalusian electoral campaign is not going to be an exception.

The same president of the Board and candidate for re-election, Juanma Moreno, acknowledged receipt this Friday and acknowledged that Olona's appointment is going to make the upcoming electoral contest "difficult" for him and, especially, what he most longs for and that arrived to have, according to the polls, within reach at the end of last year, to

govern without a partner

.

Moreno has practically no relationship with Olona and, in fact, he did not meet her personally until a few months ago,

in Fitur

, but he said he had "a lot of respect for her in electoral terms."

The leader of the PP-A is aware that Olona arrives in Andalusia with the aim of preventing him from achieving his objective.

"Vox is putting all the meat on the grill to try to prevent him from governing alone," Moreno said during an

institutional visit

to Córdoba.

From his party, however, there are leaders who think that Olona's candidacy can benefit that of Juanma Moreno and

favor his re

-election as Andalusian president.

The reason for this

optimism

, who knows if faked or real, is the confidence that the growth of Vox, to which the polls already point and the one that Olona's appointment may add, will not occur at the expense of the PP, in such a way that it be easier for the popular ones to achieve the great objective that they have set for themselves in these elections, which is to achieve more seats -by themselves or with Ciudadanos if they do not disappear- than the entire left together.

They do not believe in the PP that Olona could be an obstacle to achieving this goal, quite the contrary.

And in that scenario, the sources consulted suggest, Vox would be forced to facilitate Moreno's investiture without being able to demand his entry into the government.

It would be the

Ayuso formula

.

Precisely, the last Sigma Dos poll for EL MUNDO, posed a

favorable outlook

for the interests of the PP, since it achieved 44 seats, plus two from Ciudadanos, compared to the 44 that all the leftist parties added.

That is to say, that the PP plus Citizens added more deputies than the entire left, the dream horizon in which Vox, according to those who defend this strategy, would have to content itself with supporting the executive from the outside.

With or without Olona.

Although expected, and feared, for a long time, the appointment of the until now deputy spokesperson for Vox in the Congress of Deputies as head of the poster for next June 19 has not only left

Moreno or the PP

indifferent

, but neither has to the rest of those who are already his rivals.

From the left to the right, passing through the center to which Ciudadanos clings, the landing of the 'cradle' deputy from Granada has caused mixed reactions.

Just as in the PP they refuse to talk about fear, neither in Ciudadanos has the arrival of the candidate pointed out by Santiago Abascal caused fear.

Quite the contrary, or so they say, since the incarnation of extremism that is Olona can reinforce his message that only the orange party can serve as a barrier so that Vox does not enter the Andalusian government.

"The enemy is

extremism

", they have been saying these days, since the Andalusian president pressed the button for early elections, in Ciudadanos, who entrusts their fate to the fact that a part of those who voted for them in 2018 repeat the ballot spurred on by fear of that Olona can become vice president of the Board.

That same

radicalism

with which Olona is identified is seen in the PP as another advantage for its own candidate and leader.

Faced with the "radicality that he embodies, Juanma Moreno reaffirms himself as more moderate," say party leaders.

Between "indifference" and relief

And on the left?

The reactions vary between the "indifference" with which they claim to have received Olona's appointment in the United Left and a certain

relief

in the Andalusian PSOE, overwhelmed by the forecasts of stagnation and the unmitigated failure that it would mean for its current leader, Juan Espadas, not exceed the results obtained by Susana Díaz in the December 2018 elections.

Espadas himself received the designation from Olona, ​​emphasizing that "it can stimulate" the vote on the left.

And it is that the

demobilization

of the electorate is one of the great problems that the socialist candidate for the Board faces, taking into account that four years ago 400,000 of his voters were left without going to vote.

If fear of Olona causes at least part of that potential PSOE electorate to leave home on June 19 and go to the electoral college to cast their vote for Espadas, Abascal's decision to send one of his

active most valuable

will have been a

gift

to the socialists.

In fact, Swords has been basing

his message

in this pre-campaign on waving the flag of a government coalition between the PP and Vox, an alliance through which he would enter the San Telmo Palace, the seat of the Presidency of the Board, the extreme right.

That, the general secretary of the PSOE-A has been repeating.

It is the task for which Elías Bendodo has been appointed general coordinator of the national PP.

For its part, Izquierda Unida, which is still involved in negotiations to build a left-wing front with Podemos, Más País and other minority formations, maintains that Olona does not make

a big difference

with respect to the panorama that was already in sight and that the «risk of democratic involution” with a PP government and Vox is independent of who is the head of the list of Abascal's party.

"We don't care who it is," said IU sources, who insisted on the official message that what matters is offering their electorate "a progressive, exciting b that represents real change."

Who has not left indifferent Olona on the left is the candidate for Adelante Andalucía, Teresa Rodríguez, who has not hesitated to

confront

the Vox candidate on social networks on each occasion that has been presented.

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