The spokesperson for Adelante Andalucía, José Ignacio García, announced this Sunday the eight heads of list for each province that will run in the upcoming general elections on November 29, taking the opportunity to criticize speculation in the housing market. "We are presenting ourselves to the Congress of Deputies so that Andalucía 'is not a backdrop at the service of investment funds and housing speculators,'" García pointed out.
The event was held in a square on Doña María Coronel street, in Seville, where the commercial premises have almost completely transformed into tourist apartments. From this stage, the spokesperson for Adelante Andalucía defended a project that aims to confront "the Andalucía that we do not want." "We are going to the Congress of Deputies with this clear message: we want an Andalucía for ordinary working people to live in, and not an Andalucía that is a backdrop where we, the neighbors, do not fit," he added.
Using the surrounding buildings as an example, García emphasized that they are running for election "to make sure that apartments and tourist flats like these become homes for neighbors again, become commercial premises again, become a city for working people." He stressed that this urban model "is precisely the one that turns housing into a market good, into a business and not a place for people to live" or where there is "normal commerce." In contrast, he denounced the proliferation of "tourist apartments in the hands of an investment fund that serve to speculate." "That is the model of Andalucía that we do not want," he insisted.
The party took advantage of the event to assert itself as a "new, fresh, and cheerful" left against a "backdrop that embodies the Andalucía that the party rejects." Thus, it has positioned housing, public transport, the cost of gasoline and the shopping basket, salaries, and work-life balance as central axes of its leftist Andalusian proposal for the general elections.
García announced that "In Adelante Andalucía we are going to talk about real life, about how we Andalusians suffer and not about the nonsense of politicians. And we are going to do all that with something that has always characterized us and that will be the hallmark of this electoral campaign, we are going to do it with joy."
In this line, the organization has claimed itself as the "only growing political force" that is also "expanding the space of the left and connecting with young people." Following that, García has defended that they are "we are the only political force that has right now the capacity to stand up to the PP and Vox. We are doing it in Parliament and we are going to do it in the Congress of Deputies."
Under the slogan of a "fresh left with new faces, ordinary people without a political career, but with a lot of experience in their jobs," Adelante has presented its eight candidates. "None of those here are professional politicians, they are normal and ordinary Andalusians who live from their work. That is why we have to make the presentation on a Sunday. They come to bring the best that Andalucía has and take it to the Congress of Deputies. The experience of the people who make Andalucía work every day by working, caring, or studying," García has announced.
The candidacy for Jaén is led by Silvia Cano, a nursing assistant focused on care and interested in childhood policies; for Sevilla, Luis de los Santos, a lawyer specialized in criminal law and human rights; for Cádiz, María Sánchez, an engineer in the metal sector and housing activist; and for Almería, Tania Ferre, a temporary teacher of Geography and History and participant in the Green Tide.
For Córdoba, the number one will be Carmen Sánchez, a historian and tour guide with "extensive experience in anti-racist activism"; for Huelva, Carmen Martín, a home care worker and housing activist; for Granada, María Alcantud, a student and social media communicator on political issues, especially feminist ones; and for Málaga, Ana Jiménez, a Biology teacher in public school, with a background in ecology and activist in the Green Tide.
To close the event, García has emphasized that Adelante considers itself the party of the working class of Andalucía. "We are not going against any normal and ordinary working-class Andalusian. We are going against those who sell Andalucía, against those who speculate with housing, against those who always have Andalucía and its ordinary people mistreated," he has concluded.