• Investiture Moreno marks distances with Vox and ignores Olona's winks to get out of political irrelevance after 19-J

  • Proposals Juanma Moreno puts Andalusia on the opposite path to that of Pedro Sánchez with a tax reduction plan against inflation

Juanma Moreno is now officially president of the Junta de Andalucía.

The absolute majority

that

the Popular Party achieved on June 19 has invested Moreno this Thursday, who is already facing his

second term

as head of the Andalusian Government, but with very notable differences compared to the previous legislature.

To begin with, because for the first time the PP is going to govern having won the elections -in 2018 it had the worst results in its history- and because it is not going to need the support of any other political group in these four years that are now beginning to carry out its laws.

With

58 votes in favor

, 37 against and 13 abstentions -from Vox-, the president of Parliament, Jesús Aguirre, has solemnly declared Juanma Moreno elected as president of the community, a position from which he will take office this Saturday at the Palacio de San Telmo.

A decade after Javier Arenas won the elections but failed to govern, the PP has removed the thorn that was stuck in the deepest part and now faces a legislature in which, as in the best times of the PSOE, in Parliament there will be a

hegemonic force

that will not need to agree, with few exceptions, and that will be able to apply, also for the first time, its political program without concessions or vetoes from external partners.

The enthusiasm among the ranks of the PP was noted in a

long ovation

, first inside the plenary hall itself, with the

popular

deputies standing up, and then in the main courtyard of Parliament, where the

selfies

with the new president multiplied.

Moreno's first words after his election were to highlight the

"political lesson"

that, in his opinion, has been given to the rest of the country, with "a climate of serenity and good sense" that is not easy to find, he pointed out, in other parliaments.

In short, "an example of useful and polite politics that we must export to the rest of Spain."

Gone are the

negotiations

of three and a half years ago, on the one hand with Ciudadanos and, on the other, with Vox -these much more complicated- in order to guarantee a sufficient number of seats to pass the investiture exam.

Despite this, Moreno has made an effort -since the very Sunday of the elections- to hide that absolute majority to avoid the

San Telmo effect

, the disconnection with society, to the point that the PP has proscribed the term of absolute majority , replacing it with "sufficient majority" or "new majority".

This new legislature, the first of the PP governing alone, must be that

of "dialogue"

, as the new Andalusian president has repeated ad nauseam, who has renounced any temptation to apply the "roller" of his 58 deputies and has announced that he is going to try to reach agreements with all the political groups, something he has insisted on these two days in which the investiture debate at the Hospital de las Cinco Llagas has been prolonged.

The PP's parliamentary spokesman, Toni Martín, has expanded on this idea, recognizing that the overwhelming majority has exceeded "our own

expectations

", while committing himself to managing that majority sensibly.

Feijoo's recipe

In these 48 hours, Moreno has given numerous clues as to what his government action will be in the next four years.

Economically, and he announced this in his speech this Wednesday, he is going to test in Andalusia the formula that Alberto Núñez Feijóo prescribes to deal with

the inflation crisis

, with measures such as the deflation of wages with respect to personal income tax, one of the star proposals of the national president of the PP, or a tax reduction, with the elimination of taxes such as the water canon, which will have an impact of 260 million euros in 2023 alone and up to 600 million in four years.

Politically, reinforcing its commitment to essential

public services

-health, education and dependency- and insisting on flags that it has already raised in these three and a half years, such as equality, the fight against gender violence or the defense of Andalusian.

Precisely, Andalusianism, the "Andalusian feeling" as Moreno has defined it, will be the hallmark of his government.

But, in addition, Moreno has already advanced his willingness to distance himself from Vox, despite the

winks

and gestures of complicity from Vox and its spokesperson, Macarena Olona, ​​who even abstained at the time of the candidate's vote.

The fourteen parliamentarians of Vox have abstained following the line previously marked by Olona during the debate, in which he has stated over and over again that Moreno could count on "our help" in certain matters and, yes, with some

conditions

.

An abstention that Olona adorned with the adjective "affectionate".

The strategy of Santiago Abascal's party is to seek, with possible agreements with the PP, the

leading role

that they could not achieve at the polls on June 19, save the irrelevance to which the elections have condemned it and abstention has been the most evident.

Especially after that in the electoral campaign, Olona insisted actively and passively that he was not going to grant a single one of his votes to the PP unless Vox was part of the executive.

Before asking the deputies to vote, Juanma Moreno already announced that

"a new time"

is now beginning with a "new majority that reflects the will of a people who want serenity and stability, to continue advancing."

She also congratulated herself for having managed to speed up the deadlines and that in a month Andalusia can have a government.

From the moment the government is formed, on Monday, work will begin on what the already elected president has baptized the Alliance for Andalusia.

Fulfilling the plan that they had outlined, the objective is that the budgets can be approved before the end of the year.

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