Easter Week has offered a theoretical break to gather strength for what is to come, the Andalusian regional elections, the most important of this cycle that began in January with those held in Extremadura. This new date at the polls is the one that interests Madrid the most, but also Barcelona, due to its implications. We are talking about a territory with a population of 8,676,713 people, of whom 6,812,861 have the right to vote. It is not just because of the demographic weight of this community that there is a lot at stake in these elections. The full cycle has been and continues to be a testing ground with the prospect of the next general elections, and today it has been settled without a definitive diagnosis. The PP continues to fuel the idea that its arrival at Moncloa is very close, even if it is with Vox as an uncomfortable and essential travel companion. To confirm this, it needs to repeat its current absolute majority in the Andalusian Parliament. Anything less than that will lead to questioning the Popular Party's chances of achieving its main objective. For the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this match is decisive. The president of the Junta, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, therefore, has a high responsibility in this electoral call, from which his party may emerge with its chest puffed out or with the obligation to ask many questions about the causes of the slowdown in its expectations.

Andalusia 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 historical stronghold 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 outlook in the elections already called for May 17 is not to regain the government, on the contrary: polls assure Moreno Bonilla's victory and it seems the doubt is whether he maintains the absolute majority or if he depends on Vox. It is in this context that the minister and first vice-president, María Jesús Montero, makes the leap to Andalusia as a socialist candidate, with declining prospects, at historic lows. And it is with this horizon that this Thursday former president Felipe González has shared a stage in Seville with Juanma Moreno Bonilla, in a conversation moderated by the journalist Susanna Griso and organized by the Cajasol Foundation with the title: "Cayetana de Alba, a political duchess".

The president of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno Bonilla, can boast of having won back for the People's Party (PP) one of the Socialist Party's (PSOE) historical strongholds since the restoration of democracy. He did so in 2018, when he became president through a governing pact with Citizens (Cs) and the external support of Vox, despite not winning the election. In fact, the PP's results, in an election where three right-wing parties were running, were far from their best. Three years later, he was re-elected with an absolute majority that allowed him to shed the burden of his investiture partners, a result so exceptional that he has it tattooed on his wrist. Moreno, who describes himself as a "liberal in the broadest sense," They will face off on May 17th to the third round to remain at the head of the Board, with all the polls in his favor despite the burden of having had to weather the breast cancer screening scandal in the community.

One of the first consequences of the calling of elections in Andalusia The biggest news has been the departure of María Jesús Montero from the Spanish government. The Vice President and Minister of Finance will have to pack her bags to become the PSOE candidate in the elections, which were announced early this Monday by President Juanma Moreno Bonilla. In her first press conference since the announcement, Montero confirmed this Tuesday that she is beginning "this electoral race" as a candidate and that her departure as minister "will be imminent in the coming days," as she stated on Monday.

Monday, The Anthill He invited the president of the Andalusian Regional Government, Juanma Moreno Bonilla. Pablo Motos was still recovering from the Marc Giró tsunami on the last show and found solace in the PP politician. With elections about to be called, the interview can be considered the first act of the pre-campaign. In fact, right at the beginning, Motos asked him about the election date, which Moreno Bonilla placed in June.

The People's Party (PP) has tried to move past the breast cancer screening crisis in Andalusia at the party's regional congress held this weekend in Seville. And it did so to the rhythm of soul music.Don't you worry 'bout a thing" It's one of the refrains sung by the sextet tasked with providing musical entertainment during the more than hour-long wait for Juanma Moreno and Alberto Núñez Feijóo's speeches. A soundtrack to bolster the "hope" that, Despite the recent setbacks that have caused concern within the partyThe Andalusian president and the leader of the People's Party (PP) attempted to generate a sense of unity during the closing of the Andalusian PP congress. After weeks of being cornered by errors in his diagnoses, Moreno used the event, which re-elected him with 99.95% support as president of the PP of Andalusia, to defend his questioned administration and, with the regional elections imminent, ask for the trust of the Andalusian people to retain an absolute majority that he is now unlikely to secure. Moreno defended the "importance of stability to move forward" and denounced a "confluence of populist interests" that want to turn the public debate into "a mudslinging battleground" with the aim of undermining him. The Andalusian president pointed to the parties both to his right and to his left. "They don't think the same way, but they seek the same thing: to break the majority that provides stability," he said. Along the same lines, Feijóo called for "not to be complacent" and "not to fall into traps or distractions." "Let stability not be interrupted," the Popular Party leader urged, expressing his aspiration to achieve it himself throughout the country despite being increasingly cornered by Vox. Feijóo praised the Andalusian model, which "reminds us that one can be moderate and determined." "Spain needs this type of politics to win," he asserted, denouncing "the corruption and lies" of a PSOE "that has no legal limits" and is "capable of absolutely anything."

Thousands of people have supported the victims of the scandal this Sunday. Delay in mammograms in Andalusia at a rally in Seville organized by the Amama association, which represents several women with breast cancer. The protest filled the square where the Andalusian presidential headquarters are located and served as a platform not only to denounce the management and response of Juanma Moreno Bonilla's Popular Party government in this case—which affects at least 1,300 women, according to data acknowledged so far by the regional government—but also to demand "quality public healthcare."

The scandal over communication errors and delays in breast cancer screening in Andalusia has brought a prominent name within the Andalusian People's Party (PP) over the past week, but one that had been relatively unknown outside the autonomous community until now. This is Antonio Sanz, the Minister of the Presidency of the Andalusian Regional Government, who has also headed the Health Department since October, replacing Rocío Hernández, who was dismissed by President Juanma Moreno.

In Madrid, they've begun installing the wiring infrastructure for the Christmas lights. But the Christmas spirit hasn't appeared anywhere yet. The ongoing confrontation between the People's Party (PP) and the Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) isn't benefiting anyone. In any case, it serves to confirm that the investiture pact in favor of Pedro Sánchez is holding up. Under precarious conditions, but it's holding up. As for the general atmosphere, it's as if spectators at any sports tournament have lost interest in following the game, waiting for unforeseen events to turn their gaze back toward the field or the court. We're at a point where only a dramatic change will allow the public to regain its full attention. The key decisions are those about organizing the political calendar. And since almost nothing is moving—that is, nothing decisive—we are content to watch the attempts by both sides to poke holes in the opponent's strategy. And this is where we are stuck, neither moving forward nor back, in a long game of chess with an uncertain outcome.

The mammogram scandal is the biggest political crisis Juanma Moreno Bonilla has had to face since becoming president of Andalusia in 2019, and it has awakened the ghost of the Dana and Carlos Mazón in the PP. Why? Because this case affects the heart of Moreno Bonilla's political narrative, based on excellence in management. baron An Andalusian does not base his political capital on cultural wars and polarization, like Isabel Díaz Ayuso, but on occupying the political center and presiding over an executive with technocratic overtones. If his management fails, the story falls apart.

The president of the Andalusian Government, Juanma Moreno, announced this Wednesday night the resignation of the Minister of Health and Consumption, Rocío Hernández, due to the mammography crisisIn an institutional statement, Moreno reiterated his apologies to the women affected by inconclusive breast cancer tests, who were not informed that the early detection program could give them an erroneous result. "Living with that uncertainty is not desirable for anyone, and that is why we have changed the protocol," explained the regional president, from the PP (People's Party).

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who must feel the sexy breath on his neck and very macho From his colleague Santiago Abascal, he has unspooled a "points-based visa" for immigrants, giving preference to those with a "greater capacity for integration" and "a better understanding of the culture." According to the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, this means that Spanish should be a "requirement" for obtaining residency. In an interview on Onda Cero, however, he said no, that it's not the same as what Junts per Catalunya is asking for with our language. He said: "They are different things. There are two languages there. We have one. They put the emphasis on the other co-official language. And what we say is that a universal language like Spanish is important to know."

The unity of the PP in its position regarding the Israeli massacre in Gaza is cracking. While the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, shows her support for the Israeli government, some men Internal divisions are emerging over what discourse should be maintained regarding a massacre that has already left more than 65,000 Palestinians dead. First, it was the Galician president, Alfonso Rueda, who called Israel's systematic attacks in the Strip "genocide." The Galician leader (and successor to Alberto Núñez Feijóo in Galicia) thus distanced himself from the official party line and embraced the same terminology that the Spanish government has been using for weeks. which has toughened measures against Netanyahu's executive and, in addition, has already decreed the arms embargo of that state. This Thursday, the president of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, joined him, doing the same during a control session in the regional parliament, despite Génova continuing to maintain that it should be the International Criminal Court that determines this.