The president of the PP in Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, has defended that the elections of November 29 "are not about red or blue," but that "this is about more democracy, more management, more honesty or more corruption, more insensitivity, and less capacity for management," underscoring that it is "a historic vote." "This is what these elections are about, more future or more past; and we bet on it," he emphasized.
At an event held in Torremolinos (Málaga), together with the PP vicesecretary for Regional Policy, Local and Electoral Analysis and candidate for Congress for Málaga, Elías Bendodo, the provincial PP president, Patricia Navarro, and the Senate candidate and local president, Margarita del Cid, asked for support at the ballot box on November 29. "This is a historic vote, a patriotic vote, a useful vote, a necessary vote; call it whatever you want, but take the PP ballot, because we risk our lives, we risk our future on November 29," he said.
Moreno argued that it is a decisive vote "because we have the great opportunity to put a normal government in Spain; a government that worries about citizens in its management, that respects the institutions and that respects vulnerable people." "A government that protects us when we have any problem, honest; and that only the PP and Alberto Núñez Feijóo can do. There is no other alternative," he said.
The PP-A leader contrasted these elections with "these eight years of a government that shows the least sensitivity toward the people who suffer" and that is "clearly insensitive, that has no capacity for management, that has worsened our public services." For that reason, he insisted that on November 29 we have to "go out and vote, all of us."
He addressed "all those who, during these eight years, have been telling us that this doesn’t work, that this doesn’t function, that we can’t continue like this, that we can’t go on putting up with this government" to remind them that "the opportunity has arrived, and in democratic terms we cannot miss this opportunity."
In this context, he raised "what would happen in Spain if we had four more years of sanchismo" and warned that if Sánchez "comes out backed by the ballot boxes, if he comes out strengthened from November 29, there will be no institutional respect whatsoever."
"And not only that, let's tighten up the males with the curves that are going to come; they are going to put in more taxes, more concessions to the independence movement, more mistreatment of Andalucía and Málaga, more problems for citizens, more impoverishment of the middle and working classes", he has censured, stressing that there is a "historical responsibility".
For Moreno, "the PSOE has been disappearing and Sanchism has appeared" and he has called for tearing down the "enormous wall" which, in his view, Sánchez has raised "to differentiate Spaniards, in such a way that the good Spaniards are those who support Mr. Sánchez and the bad ones are all those who don't".
He added that that wall has also served "to cover up his shame and make things be forgotten", and he recalled that in these eight years "you have taken out of jail everyone who had the shameful audacity to violate the Statute of Catalonia and the Constitution, everyone who carried out a coup d'état, each and every one of them who embezzled and attacked the framework of coexistence through a law of amnesty".
In the same vein, he recalled that there was "a Minister of Development, Secretary of Organization --of the PSOE--, his friend of the soul, his man of confidence, the person in whom he placed all the trust" who is "in jail and with a sentence" and he has reproached that a party "that talks so much about equality, about feminism has allowed that in its organization and in its government people spoke about women and treated them as pure merchandise, which is nauseating".
Moreno has also brought up episodes such as the blackout and the massive arrival of migrants in Ceuta, criticizing that when "the territorial integrity of our country is invaded, he --Sánchez-- with all the audacity in the world makes a playlist, gets the Falcon and goes on vacation for 30 days".
He has also mentioned the two train accidents and has taken Sánchez to task for having "the nerve that it hadn't even been 15 days, that the families are still keeping vigil over those corpses to put on a red T-shirt, to go dance and to forget those victims, without even having the dignity to go see them and go to the funerals". "It's his responsibility as president of all Spaniards", he has stressed.
He has stated that they have been “eight years of government by a president who has impoverished us” and that “he has fried us with taxes,” questioning “how can they ask for explanations if they have had responsibility, the capacity and the resources and have been unable to solve the housing problem; and not only that, but to generate a bigger problem for all Spaniards.”
For all these reasons, Moreno has summarized that “this is about more freedom, democracy, wealth, progress, well-being, honesty, or taking steps back,” calling for “toppling the Government the way things should be done, through democracy.” “Spain and Spaniards do not deserve this government,” he has concluded.
For his part, Elías Bendodo has warned that “not everything is done or everything is won and you shouldn’t trust a hair of this lot because if they can cheat, they will do it.” “Imagine a person who is capable of cheating his own people, wouldn’t he cheat the whole of the Spaniards?” he has asked.
As he has indicated, the challenge “is no longer that the PP wins the elections over the PSOE, which too, that winning this disastrous Government is very important,” but he has emphasized that “it’s not only the PP at stake; Spain, Andalusia and Málaga are at stake.”
Bendodo has accused Sánchez of saying that “Sánchez has handled all the institutions, has meddled in everything and has dragged our democracy down and has dragged the brand España through the floor,” warning that “if he is legitimized for four more years, he will be able to do everything and will put at risk all these years of peaceful coexistence that Spaniards have had and that he has tried to tear down with the wall.”
“That’s what we’re betting on next November 29: the Spain of the future or a dark Spain,” the People’s Party leader has reiterated, who has appealed to young people and recalled that “the great changes in Spain were achieved by Spanish youth,” citing as an example Moreno, whom he has praised for having “managed to return to us the pride of being Andalusians.”