Juanma Moreno has closed the Andalusian election campaign with a direct message to undecided voters: winning is not enough. The president of the Junta and PP-A candidate for re-election has called this Friday in Granada for a "sufficient" majority that would allow the formation of a government in July and avoid uncertain negotiations after the elections on May 17.
In a public event held in Granada before some 1,500 people, according to PP-A data, Moreno has asked Andalusians to give his party "honors" at the polls. The popular candidate has argued that the PP-A has reached "outstanding," but has insisted that it needs broader support to guarantee political stability during the next legislature.
The message arrives on the last day of the campaign, when parties can no longer publish new polls, but can appeal to trends known in recent weeks. Moreno has pointed out that the polls disseminated during the campaign place the PP-A as the "preferred" party by Andalusians, although he has warned that this "is not enough" to ensure a stable government.
Moreno appeals to the undecided in the campaign closing
The PP-A candidate has focused a large part of his speech on citizens who have not yet decided their vote. According to Moreno, there is a significant group of undecided voters whom his party must convince in the final hours before the reflection day.
"We need to have a majority of stability and security," Moreno has argued, linking that objective with the possibility of Andalusia having a government in July. His argument is clear: the broader the support for the PP-A, the faster the formation of the next Andalusian Executive will be.
The Andalusian president has presented the elections as a decision between continuity and blockage. In his opinion, an insufficient majority could delay the investiture and leave Andalusia's political future pending external negotiations.
The warning to Vox: not depending on "an office 500 kilometers away"
Moreno has once again distanced himself from Vox in the final stretch of the campaign. Without solely citing parliamentary arithmetic, he has warned that not achieving a sufficient majority would mean being at the "mercy of the decision of a person in an office 500 kilometers from here," in reference to the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal.
The phrase summarizes one of the central axes of the PP-A's campaign closing: asking for a useful vote to avoid depending on Vox. Moreno does not limit himself to asking for victory, but for a victory broad enough to govern without conditions.
The popular candidate has insisted that Andalusia cannot be dependent on decisions made outside the community. That message connects with an idea that the PP-A has repeated throughout the campaign: stability, management, and political autonomy versus pacts or blockades.
“We cannot stop Andalusia”
Moreno has defended that his political project is “honest” and that it prioritizes the interests of Andalusia over any other partisan calculation. In that framework, he has asked not to take “a single step back” and has presented the coming years as an opportunity to consolidate the economic and social growth of the community.
“We cannot stop Andalusia,” he stated before his supporters. The popular candidate has maintained that the community has a historic opportunity to become one of the “most thriving” regions, with more development and more capabilities for future generations.
The President of the Junta has also claimed the management of his Government in recent years. According to Moreno, Andalusia has gained economic weight and can now look “eye to eye” with communities like Madrid and Catalonia.
Moreno turns the 17M into a message against Pedro Sánchez
The PP-A's campaign closing also had a national reading. Moreno has asked that the Andalusian elections serve to send a direct message to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
The popular candidate has stated that “his time is running out” and has defended that Spain needs “an alternative” and “another style” of doing politics. With that approach, the PP-A seeks to mobilize not only the Andalusian voter concerned with management but also the electorate that wants to use the 17M polls as a punishment for the central Government.
The strategy is evident: Moreno wants the Andalusian elections to be read as a ratification of his Government, but also as a political signal of national scope.
Absolute majority, final axis of the PP-A campaign
The campaign closing makes the PP-A's priority clear: to turn an electoral advantage into a useful majority to govern. Moreno has not simply asked to win, but to obtain support that allows him to start the legislature without depending on third parties.
That is the key to his final message. The PP-A wants to avoid the post-election debate revolving around Vox, pacts, or investiture deadlines. That is why Moreno insists that Andalusia needs a government as soon as possible with sufficient room to make decisions.
The appeal to "honors" seeks precisely that: to activate the voter who may take the PP-A's victory for granted and avoid demobilization in the final hours: winning is not enough if there is not a sufficient majority against Vox.
The risk for Moreno in these final hours is not only in his rivals. It is also in the excessive confidence of his own electorate. That is why the popular candidate has sought to shake off any sense of assured victory, to move forward, but only if the polls give him something more than a victory.