Andalusian elections without Andalusia

The assumption is a common illness in the press, consisting of expressing one's own editorial desires based on presumed moods of people far from the medium's creed. When El Mundo headlines "Montero assumes that Andalusia will be a plebiscite for Sánchez" there is no strict news, because what the outgoing minister thinks or doesn't think has very little informative value. These kinds of formulations, in reality, translate as "Things are as I tell them and you shut up, swallow and assume." The sub-headline works in the same direction: "Government examined in the regional elections of May 17th." Again, the Madrid press erases any trace of autonomism in regional elections, which is a considerable merit. I will not deny the influence of the state mood on the Andalusian elections, but I am convinced that if anyone is submitting to a plebiscite, it is precisely the one who has been governing there since 2019, that is, Juanma Moreno, of the PP. Even in his quote of the day that heads the issue, the newspaper resorts to the former prime minister Harold Wilson and his phrase "There is nothing more dangerous for a ruler than to turn an election into a referendum on his own face; he may find that the mirror is broken." We still have no trace of proximity in the gaze.

The Feijóo effect that they parked in previous elections where it was already seen that the popular party's role would be a very discreet victory with Vox on its back, now they rescue it. I suppose it suits them not to talk about Andalusia and its problems, some of which are structural, such as 14.7% unemployment (the Spanish average is 9.9%) or 34.7% of the population at risk of poverty or social exclusion, almost 9 points above the Spanish average (25.7%) and the highest rate in the State. Watch out that El Mundo doesn't have the broken mirror.