The Government of Pedro Sánchez has once again made a decision that directly punishes Andalusia. This time, removing the transportation aid Public school for children under 14, a measure that benefited more than 1,2 million young people and their families. The excuse: that the announcement of the measure did not expressly mention that the funds came from the State. However, the same "breach" occurred in Guipúzcoa, where the PSOE and PNV govern, and there There have been no reprisals, no threats, no withdrawal of funds.
No minister can trample on the dignity of nine million Andalusians.
Loud and clear! #SánchezCastigaMonteroApplauds pic.twitter.com/g25n5yIdmz
– PP of Andalusia (@ppandaluz) April 22, 2025
This flagrant double yardstick It has been executed by the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, and endorsed by the Government's number two, María Jesús Montero, Minister of Finance and main leader of the Andalusian PSOE, who has applauded the decision with its silence and political complicity.
"No minister can trample on the dignity of nine million Andalusians.", said the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, who announced that the Board will assume with its own funds the transportation aid withdrawn by the Sánchez Executive.
Institutional discrimination
The Ministry of Transport notified the Andalusian Government on April 15 of the withdrawal of the transportation aid for children under 14, arguing that the Ministry was not mentioned as a funder when the measure was presented. However, the Provincial Council of Guipúzcoa—governed by the PSE-EE and PNV parties— made exactly the same “mistake” on April 8 in a public communication, without the transport aid being withdrawn or any rectification being required.
“This is not a technical decision, it is a political punishment. Andalusia suffers the consequences of not being governed by the PSOE". Minister Puente himself has acknowledged that the source of the conflict lies in the way the measure was communicated. But this requirement has only been applied to the Andalusian Regional Government. There is no record of any letter having been sent to other communities that have failed to mention the State., as was done with councilor Rocío Díaz.
Moreno responds: “We are here to pay for it.”
President Juanma Moreno has responded forcefully: "They don't want to pay us the aid. During an event of the Executive Committee of the Andalusian PP, Moreno recalled that Andalusia It is the most populated community in Spain, the third in GDP and the backbone of the country, and that it will not allow itself to be treated as a second-class community.
A minister cannot have such a childish reaction as Oscar Puente's, withdrawing transportation assistance for young Andalusians.
I want to tell you that no minister can trample on the dignity of 9 million people. @JuanMa_Moreno #DefendAndalucía pic.twitter.com/b0uB0RnlRv
– PP of Andalusia (@ppandaluz) April 21, 2025
The Andalusian Government has already confirmed that it will assume the total cost of the transportation aid for children under 15, and that the measure will remain in place as planned from July 1. This decision ensures that no young Andalusian will be deprived of this right due to the sectarianism of the central government.
Montero and transport aid: silence, applause, and betrayal of Andalusia
While the Government of Pedro Sánchez carried out an unjust and deliberate punishment against more than a million Andalusian minors by removing the transportation aid, the Minister of Finance and number two of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, not only did he remain silent, but he applauded the decision. The former Minister of Health in the Regional Government and today the highest Andalusian Socialist representative in Sánchez's Executive, He has not moved a single finger to defend his land.
Far from acting like an Andalusian, Montero has behaved as a submissive spokesperson for her party's interests in Madrid., endorsing with his complicity and silence an unprecedented grievance. His attitude, far from being neutral, has been active: he has justified, defended and supported a measure that directly harms thousands of Andalusian families, just for not publicly applauding the central government.
"While Sánchez punishes, Montero applauds", the secretary general of the Andalusian People's Party (PP) denounced yesterday. His absence in the defense of Andalusia It is no longer surprising, but it is undignified.
At no point has he raised his voice against Minister Puente, nor has he called for fairness, nor has he demanded that Andalusia be treated like the Basque Country. On the contrary: has allowed the PSOE-A to blame Juanma Moreno for the conflict, as if the problem were demanding respect and justice for Andalusia.
Huntsman He puts the interests of the PSOE before the rights of Andalusians.His role in this conflict has been particularly bloody: has acted as an accomplice to a sectarian and partisan decision, being Andalusian and holding institutional responsibility at the highest level. Her loyalty lies not with the citizens of her homeland, but with the orders of Pedro Sánchez.
"She neither defends, nor mediates, nor represents Andalusia. María Jesús Montero has become the minister who applauds when her land is punished.". Andalusia doesn't forget. And it doesn't forgive those who, being from here, allow its dignity to be trampled on from Madrid.
Andalusia does not remain silent
This episode confirms a worrying trend: The Sánchez government's systematic punishment of Andalusia. It has been seen in the distribution of European funds, in state budgets, in the lack of investment in key infrastructures... and now, in the unjustified withdrawal of some transportation aid which are maintained in other territories governed by PSOE partners.
"Andalusia does not kneel or give thanks for what is ours. We are the driving force of Spain and we deserve respect," said President Moreno.
With this decision, Pedro Sánchez and María Jesús Montero have demonstrated their contempt for Andalusia., while they continue to reward their partners in the Basque Country with the complicit silence of their own Andalusian representatives.
