On May 28, Spaniards will go to the polls to elect their mayors and regional presidents (in those communities in which it plays) but the PP is determined to frame the campaign in the national keys and to turn the municipal ones into a plebiscite on sanchismo. "Spain needs a change like the one that occurred in 1982," said Saturday in Granada the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has presented himself as a leader against "sectarianism, finger-pointing and confrontation." It is necessary, Feijóo insisted, "to start a new stage of constitutional Spain".

"It is time to take a different ballot to that of Sánchez and send it to the opposition," said the president of the Andalusian PP, Juanma Moreno, as if the 28M were nothing but a kind of first round of the general elections to be held at the end of the year.

Hours after accompanying the mayor and candidate of the PP of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, Feijóo has participated today in the presentation of the candidacy of Marifrán Carazo in Granada, where the former Andalusian counselor will try to recover one of the strategic mayoralties for the Andalusian PP in this call.

And, although both Juanma Moreno and Alberto Núñez Feijóo have committed to the pending infrastructures in the city, both have largely focused their speeches on highlighting the links of all the mayors and socialist candidates – including that of Granada – with Sanchismo, in a strategy that clearly aims to take advantage of the erosion of the image of President Sánchez and his coalition government to drag their mayors with them.

In a community like Andalusia, where the PSOE has a strong presence in the network of municipalities, with 450 mayors, 4,209 councilors and 6 of the 8 councils, the PP believes that the weak flank of all that territorial power is precisely the drag effect that the deterioration of the prestige of the Sánchez Government may have due to its agreements with Catalan separatism or Bildu.

The management of the drought and the lack of infrastructure to bring water to irrigation is the other argument of the PP against the Government of Sánchez for the promised and unrealized works and for the cuts to the Tajo-Segura transfer, which affects the entire Spanish east and also the province of Almeria.

In this regard, Feijóo has committed to these transfers and infrastructures and has turned them into an electoral promise: "Bringing water where there is none is well worth winning a general election," he said.

Moreno has also emphasized the problem of the lack of water resources blaming the Government of Sánchez: "They want to suffocate us. What do they want us to live on if they do not want to talk about transfers today, if they do not want desalination plants, if they think that swamps are a thing of the past. Because everything has ideology now, even the swamps," Moreno insisted.

Moreno has invited the President of the Government to "take advantage" of one of his trips "in the Falcon" to sit down with Andalusian farmers and ranchers and give them explanations about the works that have not been done to guarantee them the water they need.

  • PP
  • Grenade
  • Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla
  • Alberto Núñez Feijóo
  • Malaga
  • PSOE
  • Almeria
  • Drought
  • Pedro Sanchez

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