The left-wing formations have coincided this Tuesday in their interpretation about why the president of the Junta, Juanma Moreno, has opted to call the elections to the Parliament of Andalusia on May 17, instead of some date in June that was initially handled.
That month of June is precisely when the calendar of statements for the so-called Masks case is scheduled, the case opened in a court in Almería about the alleged collection of commissions in the contracting of sanitary material. In that agenda appears, among others, the appearance of the former president of the Provincial Council of Almería, Javier Aureliano García, scheduled for June 26.
The deputy general secretary of the PSOE of Andalusia, María Márquez, has stated that Moreno "knew" that the trial of 43 people related to the PP in Almería for prevarication, fraud in public procurement, influence peddling, bribery, embezzlement, criminal organization and money laundering was scheduled between May 28 and June 26 and "has hidden" this "fundamental" information from the Andalusians with what she has called "early election call".
According to a note from this party, Márquez has criticized the Andalusian president for bringing forward the elections to May 17 so that citizens vote "without knowing the truth" about the "criminal plot" with connections "to drug trafficking and arms trafficking" and with "black money" seized from the detainees, many of them PP officials in Almería, "in pillowcases" or in "pockets of clothes" stored in wardrobes.
María Márquez has specified in this regard that the Socialist Group has registered a document in Parliament to demand the "urgent and extraordinary" convocation of the Permanent Deputation, in order for Moreno and his Governing Council to immediately appear and offer "all explanations" about that judicial investigation, because "we cannot allow Andalusians to go to the polls without knowing the truth."
For his part, the candidate of Por Andalucía to the Junta, Antonio Maíllo, has pointed out that it is now known that Moreno "not only brought forward the elections by a month to avoid pending debates," but also did so to "avoid pending strolls through the courts."
"Andalusia deserves a government that puts the interest of the people at the center, and not its own," he/she/it has stated on his/her/its account on the social network X.
In parallel, the Adelante Andalucía candidate for the Junta, José Ignacio García, has accused Juanma Moreno this Tuesday of "bringing forward the regional elections" to May 17 so that they would not coincide with the "judicial parade" of those indicted "from the PP of Almería corruption case", something he considers "quite reprehensible".
"A week later we know it," García has pointed out, alluding to the president's reasons for setting the election date on May 17.
"What a coincidence that he has called the elections just before all those indicted in the PP of Almería corruption case start parading through the courts, starting with the former president of the Provincial Council," he added.
In his/her view, this decision evidences "fear" and that Moreno "has much to hide in the case of the corruption of the PP of Almería". He/She has stressed that the Andalusians must know "what has happened with the public money that allegedly the gentlemen of the PP of Almería have been taking warm".
He/She has advanced that, during the campaign, Adelante will promote "a social debate about corruption" and "how certain political parties, when they are in power, use institutions to take it warm."