Inside the mess

The Andalusian elections confirm that the Spanish right is heading towards living within what Moreno Bonilla and Feijóo had insisted throughout the campaign they wanted to avoid: the mess (in the original version el lío), a terminology inherited from Rajoy). The mess is having to govern with Vox, and that is exactly what the Andalusian PP will have to do in this new legislature, once they have lost their absolute majority. In regional negotiations with the Popular Party, Vox acts like a party that does not know the meaning of expressions such as institutional loyalty or proportionality . Apparently, they don't even understand what negotiating means: for Vox, there is only the possibility of imposing their slogans and their ideological obsessions, or breaking the game. They are not governing partners: they tutor governments. Lately, Vox's slogan is called national priority, which means institutionalizing racism, supremacism and xenophobia, and turning them into transversal elements in government action. After this, follows a list of hatreds (feminism, environmentalism, etc.) at the top of which is the Catalan language and anything that Spanish far-right nationalism identifies as "catalan". This is the "mess" that Moreno Bonilla will have to face, who does not emerge exactly unscathed (5 fewer seats and loss of absolute majority) from the scandal of breast cancer screenings, even though there were more than enough reasons for the wear and tear to be more pronounced.For its part, the question that the Andalusian PSOE can ask itself is whether it has already hit rock bottom and if it still has sheets to lose in future electoral washings. It is easy to say in hindsight, but the truth is that the socialists could hardly have chosen a worse candidate than María Jesús Montero, a woman who is Andalusian by birth but who is little or not at all so by deeds, much more tied to Madrid, to Pedro Sánchez and to the party apparatus than to Andalusian political debate, which is intense, dense and vibrant. The old tactic of sending politicians who have "succeeded" in Madrid as ministers to "the provinces" (Pilar Alegría to Aragón, María Jesús Montero to Andalusia), which has been used so many times by both the PP and the PSOE, indiscriminately, is not yielding results for Pedro Sánchez.The significant rise of the sovereignist left of Endavant Andalusia, led by José Ignacio García, in the face of the blockage suffered by the confluence of Sumar, Podem, and Esquerra Unida, which is Per Andalusia, with Antonio Maíllo as candidate, confirms that “what matters to people” is also ideological, and that sovereignism makes sense (and has voters) when it is presented as a form of democratic improvement, united with the claims of people's rights and freedoms, both individually and collectively. That Endavant Andalusia has been more voted than Vox in constituencies like Cadiz or Seville is also relevant. By blocs, the right sums up 68 seats, compared to the 41 of the left. The mess that we already know in the Balearic Islands or the Valencian Country is beginning in Andalusia.