Moreno bets on being the antithesis of Pedro Sánchez to revalidate the success of 19J in May

• New Year's Eve speech Moreno demands Sánchez to "respect the autonomy of Andalusia" in full fiscal confrontation

Juanma Moreno is not running for the elections next May.

She does not head any electoral list and her face will not be on any poster.

But the president of the Junta de Andalucía and leader of the Andalusian PP is aware that the elections next May are

from which he can definitely emerge strengthened and invested as the great baron of his party and of the center-right in Spain -above , even, of Isabel Díaz Ayuso- or, on the contrary, face the harsh reality that the absolute majority that it achieved just six months ago was just a mirage.

For Moreno, the municipal elections are going to be the great acid test, a kind of revalidation to test if the

that he enjoys has

and his baraka extends beyond the high walls of the San Telmo Palace.

Not once did the president of the Board mention this electoral appointment in the speech with which he said goodbye to the year 2022 -otherwise it would have been surprising and even out of place- but in his message to the Andalusians he already made it clear what his trump card is .

Moreno wants to be the

of Pedro Sánchez and his management and his government, the antithesis of everything that comes out of the La Moncloa palace.

Not only that, but also the idea is to serve as a

for his party, the PP, to make way for Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the face of the general elections that will come not long after the municipal ones, probably at the end of the year. , or, at the latest, beginning of the next.

Contrast what the regional executive over which he presides does with the measures of the central government, the results and, above all, the

that his absolute majority gives him in the face of the continuous fight between the PSOE and Unidas Podemos, the two partners that give life to a government that goes from polemic to polemic.

The continuous references in the New Year's Eve speech to the successes recorded by the Andalusian PP, with a central place for

in the number of self-employed workers, one of the greatest prides of the President of the Board, or the good figures in exports of Andalusian SMEs.

Leaders was one of the most repeated words in the speech.

Not only economically -in tourism, for example-, but also when it comes to highlighting the role that Andalusia plays in the national

.

Faced with all this, the strategy of the PP - and it can be seen in Moreno's speech - is to focus on the

that Sánchez generates and underline what they consider to be attacks or obstacles to the development of Andalusia.

Hence the demand that the "autonomy" of the community be respected in full fiscal confrontation.

Sánchez and the PSOE, the PP comes to say, are a brake,

on the road to the promised land of growth and leadership.

Juan Espadas embraces Pedro Sánchez in the campaign for the last regional elections. EUROPA PRESS

The antagonism with Pedro Sánchez is Juanma Moreno's bet in a crucial year, just as the

with the President of the Government is that of Juan Espadas.

If the leader of the popular Andalusians faces his revalidation in May, the Andalusian PSOE leader is risking his own

political

But Espadas, who is already being questioned by many from within, does not see any ballast in Sánchez, quite the contrary, and while

is spreading among the mayors and candidates of his party of the effect that the policy of pacts and assignments could have in May to the independentistas, the general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE does not miss the opportunity to proclaim his loyalty to the national leader.

He has done so, for the last time, in an interview he has given to the Europa Press agency, in which he not only distances himself from the

of such prominent socialist leaders as Javier Lambán or Emiliano García Page, but also claims his "right" to express their unwavering adherence to Pedro Sánchez and his postulates, however controversial they may be.

The PSOE-A, Espadas insists, will continue to be "a solid pillar" both for the party at the national level and for the central government.

The debacle of the regional elections in June was not, according to his own words, a surprise.

The important thing, he assures, is to check the

in the next appointment with the polls, which will draw the immediate future of Espadas and also of Moreno.

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