For the first time, tonight, the six candidates of the main parties that are running for the Andalusian elections -the PP, PSOE, Ciudadanos, Vox, Adelante Andalucía and Por Andalucía- which are being held on June 19, met face to face and debated in the Territorial Center of RTVE-Andalusia.

The president of the Junta de Andalucía and PP candidate for re-election, Juanma Moreno, sold management, boasted that Andalusia "grows above the national average" and that the Andalusian community has ceased to be a "fiscal hell" since that the PP and Cs govern in coalition after 37 successive years of PSOE government.

The Vox candidate for the presidency of the Andalusian Government, Macarena Olona, ​​tried to polarize with immigration and gender policies.

She promised to "repeal all the ideological and sectarian laws approved in Madrid and Andalusia" if she manages to gain access to the Government of the Junta.

The Adelante Andalucía candidate, Teresa Rodríguez, responded to this matter, accusing the populist right-wing party led by Santiago Abascal of being the "political arm of sexist terrorism" and of being the party of abusers.

She also reproached him for confronting the weakest, the immigrant minors, for his "racist prejudices."

Moreno, for his part, avoided the melee with the rest of the candidates.

"I am the man of fashion, I am everyone's target," he proclaimed.

At the same time, he attacked the PSOE candidate, Juan Espadas, whom he linked to the old PSOE.

“You have been a counselor with Chaves and with Griñán”, referring to the two former socialist presidents of the Andalusian Government who have been convicted of the ERE case, the largest cause of corruption that has ever been investigated in the country.

To shake off the criticism that Swords launched at him about his management in health, education or dependency, Moreno replied: "They have governed for 37 years, why haven't they done it?"

Espadas downplayed the impact of the Andalusian government's tax reform, arguing that it has only meant "five euros a month in personal income tax" for Andalusians, while calling for "reactivating industry, managing public services well and placing Andalusia at the head of European funds.

While the Vice President of the Andalusian Government and Ciudadanos candidate, Juan Marín, buffered criticism of the coalition government and boasted that the waiting list has been reduced and there are more teachers and more health workers working in the Junta de Andalucía since the PP and Ciudadanos are governing.

The debate went from less to more and the candidates, little by little, settled into a format in which the parties agreed to the last detail: from the time of arrival of the candidates at the territorial center of RTVE, to the number of companions or the documentation they could carry during the debate.

The candidates had a stopwatch in sight so that they could manage their speaking times according to the format of the debate.

The stopwatches were technically managed by professional referees.

The candidate of Por Andalucía, Inmaculada Nieto, reproached Moreno for his management in health and education.

«He has not fired 8,000 toilets?

Aren't there 3,000 fewer teachers in the classrooms?

The president of the Board reproached him that he was missing the truth.

In addition, Nieto described the Andalusian Government's economic policies as "very old policies", while he criticized the Andalusian Government for "those recipes on the table that have already failed, the more modern European right-wingers than you, do not apply them."

At the beginning of the debate on economy, employment and taxation, the vice president of the Board and candidate for Cs, Juan Marín, underpinned Moreno's speech on job creation, arguing that "we have created 200,000 jobs" to show that Andalusia “It has been a locomotive creating employment”, to refer then to the continuity of the flat rate for the self-employed and the promise of the bonus of 30% of the fee, stop paying 1,200 euros per year, for those who cannot benefit from the rate flat.

Olona, ​​for his part, maintained that "the triumphalist airs" of the Andalusian Government are "an insult to Andalusian households" to question "the myth of management" and reproach him for spending on institutional communication "has been double", while who wielded "the 37,000 dependents who died without the benefit despite having it recognized."

Teresa Rodríguez, for her part, recalled the INE survey to indicate that "fifteen of the twelve poorest municipalities are Andalusian" to claim that "Andalusia cannot live on tourism alone, which generates precarious wages."

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