El Spokesperson for the Popular Group in the Parliament of Andalusia, Tony Martin, has stated that the First Vice President of the Government, Minister of Finance and now also Secretary General of the Andalusian PSOE, María Jesús Montero, “has achieved in just four months” as leader of the opposition in Andalusia “the The double of being the worst-rated politician in Andalusia and the worst-rated minister in Spain”, while admitting that “the Montero effect exists”, but that what it means is that it is leading the Andalusian socialists “downhill and without brakes, judging by the polls”.
During the question addressed to the President of the Regional Government, Juanma Moreno, during the plenary session of Parliament this Thursday regarding support for the productive sectors, Martín referred to the "bizarre episode" that marks one year today "since the letter in which Pedro Sánchez confessed his profound love for his accused wife, and also those five days of tormented reflections and doubts that he finally managed to resolve." He added that after "that absolute nightmare that we Spaniards had to live through, some things remain the same and others have changed."
In this regard, the parliamentary spokesperson pointed out that what remains the same is that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, "is unable to approve a single initiative because he has no support," and that "he continues to live surrounded by corruption, which no longer comes from his wife, but from several family members, friends, and loved ones."
Among the things that have changed, Martín focused on Montero's new leadership at the head of the PSOE-A party, which adds to the other positions she already held. "Ms. Montero has more positions than a Socialist government, and judging by all the polls, what the Andalusian people have in store for Ms. Montero is to present a comprehensive amendment, perhaps for all the mistreatment and punishments she has inflicted on Andalusia."
Toni Martín has admitted the existence of a “Montero effect", but he stressed that what it means is that it leads the Andalusian socialists"It downhill without brakes". "In just four months, Ms. Montero has achieved the double honor of being the worst-rated political leader in Andalusia. and the worst-rated Spanish minister in the Spanish Government." Therefore, in his opinion, "the Spanish and the Andalusian people"they support' "I roundly condemn Ms. Montero, who continues to dig, even though it seemed impossible, a little deeper each time, not in the ground, but in the subsoil of the Socialist Party," he emphasized in relation to the vote estimate data from the Andalusian Studies Center Foundation released this week.
He has listed a series of grievances of the vice president towards Andalusia that, in his opinion, are behind the results that said survey shows for the PSOE-A: "Perhaps it is because of all that mistreatment, perhaps it is because of that financing system that it owes us, perhaps because it has increased personal income tax by 44% for middle- and low-income households, perhaps because it threatens us with a Catalan quota that would undermine equality and solidarity in Spain." In response, Martín stated that "fortunately, in Andalusia we have a government that governs differently, with common sense and prudence."
Toni Martín has exhibited an old one measuring stick in the Plenary Hall during his speech and indicated that this instrument "for many centuries served to establish a common measure to prevent deception and fraud in transactions." "The Andalusians," he continued, We are absolutely fed up with the frauds and lies that we suffer from the Spanish Government due to the double standards of Sánchez and María Jesús Montero.” long yardstick for its independence partners and its benefits and the minuscule measuring stick for the rest of the Spanish and Andalusian people, as well as the harm it causes us," he added.
We Andalusians are fed up and tired of the double standards of Pedro Sánchez's government.@toni_miglesias in the Parliament of Andalusia. pic.twitter.com/59UOWGeDuc
– PP of Andalusia (@ppandaluz) April 24, 2025
Martín points out the "always threatening tone" of the Government, which hits Andalusia at the slightest
The spokesperson for the Popular Group also referred to the Controversy over the elimination of transport subsidies, decided unilaterally by the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, for Andalusian children up to 14 years of age. and has criticized that we are facing "a Spanish Government that is always threatening, with its sword raised and that strikes at Andalusia at the slightest opportunity, no matter how small."
Toni Martín has described the Sánchez and Montero Executive as “a The Spanish government, which is genetically a troublemaker"And this has been demonstrated once again with this decision to deprive Andalusian minors and their families of these discounts. "To perpetrate this latest feat by Mr. Sánchez and Ms. Montero, they have also used a double standard that we are not prepared to accept, because they are not going to take away transport subsidies from children under 14 in the Basque Country. I don't have to tell you why," he quipped.
In his opinion, the Spanish government always behaves toward Andalusia and the Andalusians as "punishing bullies who throw stones," while "with the Basques and the Catalans who keep them in power, they are accommodating, vassals, and submissive." He emphasized that it will be the Andalusian government, as already announced, that will assume "the cost of this new blow from Pedro Sánchez's government to Andalusia to prevent it from reaching the pockets of the Andalusians." "The reality is that we have a Spanish government that is in the hands of people who live 2.000 kilometers away in their hiding places, and from there they decide what needs to be done in Spain and how long Pedro Sánchez will remain in government," Martín asserted.
