The general secretary of PSOE-A and candidate for the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía, María Jesús Montero, has reiterated this Wednesday that she faces the Andalusian elections next Sunday, May 17, with the determination to go out "to win", and has shown herself "convinced" of being able to achieve it despite the fact that polls point to a possible socialist defeat even harder than that of 2022, when the party was left with 30 seats in the Andalusian Parliament. She added that on the Monday after the election she expects to be "already forming a government" in Andalusia, in coherence with the victory she takes for granted.
These statements were made in an interview on Cadena SER, reported by Europa Press, where, when asked about the polls, she recalled that "the experts" maintain that it is "in the final days," when the election day "is already close," when "people transfer the meaning of their vote," although "many times they don't even transfer it," as she has clarified.
Montero has once again cited the Andalusian elections of 2012 and 2018 as examples of calls in which the final count did not match what the polls anticipated. In 2012, Javier Arenas' PP-A won but without the absolute majority that was predicted, which allowed the PSOE-A and IU to end up governing the Junta in coalition. In the December 2018 elections, Susana Díaz's PSOE-A was the most voted list, but it was left out of the Andalusian Executive for the first time in the history of the autonomy as a consequence of the government agreement between PP-A and Ciudadanos and the support of Vox for the investiture of Juanma Moreno.
For that reason, the socialist leader has underlined that she prefers to remain "cautious" and wait for the citizens to express themselves at the polls. In any case, regarding the question of whether she fears "the worst result in history" for the PSOE in Andalusia, she has rejected that scenario and insisted that her objective is to go out "to win".
"I am confident of victory," has also stated María Jesús Montero, who has explained that one of her goals is "to mobilize all that progressive vote from people who, one day, in some elections, trusted" the PSOE and who wish to "trust again" in the party in these Andalusian elections, taking into account, as she has indicated, what is at stake for "Andalusia's public services" in this electoral call.
In line with that idea, she has declared herself "convinced" that, if from her candidacy they manage to activate "the progressive people who once trusted the PSOE, who understand that these elections are important," the socialists will end up "winning" this appointment with the polls.
Thus, facing Monday, May 18, "with the results in hand," María Jesús Montero has pointed out that she trusts in "being able to be already forming a government and, therefore, talking with the rest of the political forces to be able to do so," before remarking that "in any case, the analyses" of the electoral outcome "will correspond" to her political organization "once settled."
The PSOE-A candidate develops her campaign agenda this Wednesday in Granada, where in the afternoon she will participate alongside the Secretary General of the PSOE and President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in a rally in the municipality of Pulianas. It will be the third campaign event she shares with the national leader of her party, with whom she also plans to close the campaign next Friday the 15th in Seville.