Felipe González shares the stage with the PP candidate for Andalusia

MadridAndalusia is the most populous autonomous community; the autonomy that distributes the most seats in Spanish elections and also the region that hosts the largest socialist federation. It is the historic fiefdom of the PSOE, which governed the community uninterruptedly until 2019 when Juanma Moreno Bonilla's PP conquered the San Telmo Palace. Two legislatures later, the PSOE's prospect in the elections already called for May 17 is not to regain the government, on the contrary: polls give Juanma Moreno Bonilla's victory as certain and it seems that the doubt is whether he maintains the absolute majority or, as has happened to other PP barons, depends on Vox. It is in this context that the minister and first vice-president, María Jesús Montero, makes the leap as a socialist candidate, with declining prospects, to historic lows. And it is with this horizon that this Thursday former president Felipe González shares the stage in Andalusia with Juanma Moreno Bonilla, in a conversation moderated by the journalist Susana Griso organized by the Cajasol foundation and with the title: "Cayetana de Alba, a political duchess".

It is a cultural event, already announced before the elections of May 17, but whose symbolism is not lost on anyone: that González is willing to share the stage with Montero's great rival in the elections already in the pre-campaign is not insignificant. And more so when in his last public appearance in Madridhe assured that he would not vote for Sánchez's PSOE because he no longer felt represented, but would vote blank.

The presentation made by Cayetano Martínez de Irijo, the duchess's son, has been symptomatic, who has shown pride in bringing together two such personalities to talk about his mother's figure. "For me, Felipe González is the best president of Spanish democracy and Moreno Bonilla the best president the Junta has had," he began, even venturing to say that "Moreno Bonilla will be the Felipe González of our times".