The general secretary of PSOE-A, María Jesús Montero, has lashed out at the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, whom she accuses of "embracing the discourse of the far right" in matters of security and drug trafficking and of assuming, in her view, the proposals of the far right to "alarm the population and generate fear" despite the official crime data.
As the socialist leader has emphasized, the official figures paint a "very different" scenario from that posed by the Andalusian president, with a decrease of 0.5% in total crime, 0.3% in conventional crime, and 7.8% in drug-related offenses.
Montero has insisted that "Drug trafficking must be fought with all the means of the State, not politically used to generate fear. After a disastrous summer in emergency management, Moreno should look less at the speck in someone else's eye and more at the beam in his own."
At the same time, she has labeled as "especially concerning" that the head of the Andalusian Executive questions operational decisions of the Civil Guard, and has defended "the magnificent work that the State Security Forces and Corps carry out every day in Andalusia," often "in extraordinarily difficult circumstances and risking their own safety."
The head of PSOE-A has also emphasized that the fight against criminal networks "is not waged solely in the police sphere." In this line, she has stressed that "More employment, more housing, more education, and more social integration are also security, Moreno. And there he should ask himself what his Government is doing and assume the responsibilities that are indeed within his competence."
Montero has added that "the escalation that Moreno has to take charge of is that of the deterioration of public services in Andalusia" and has reproached him that, once again, he uses public employees to fuel his clash with the central Government.
In this same line, she has recalled that "He already did it with the professionals who protected us from the fires and it was shameful. Now he intends to do the same with the State Security Forces and Corps. After a disastrous summer in emergency management, Moreno should look less at the speck in someone else's eye and more at the beam in his own."