- The secretary general of the Andalusian Popular Party points out that Espadas has been forced to call the conclave “due to the lack of support in Andalusia and Madrid. They will be once again entangled in their internal problems.”
- He describes the proposal for a state-owned housing company as “smoke”
- “Juanma Moreno is showing in Andalusia that, with work, with a prepared team, with honesty, with ambition for the future, it is possible to grow, create jobs and govern with moderation for all, in contrast to the inequality and Caesarism of Sánchez”
The secretary general of the PP in Andalusia, Antonio Repullo, has summed up the recent federal congress of the PSOE in Seville as “smoke after the fireworks. The final flourish of socialism. You only had to see their faces: the fake joy, the forced smile, the false naturalness, the tense embrace.” “No real camaraderie,” he says. “A communion of interests, a save yourself if you can. A desperate lifeline for Pedro Sánchez.”
According to Repullo, “Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE no longer inspires even its own people. And this is normal, because they have already exhausted the rabbits in the hat, the dramatic effects and the epic resistance to reality: they neither govern nor manage.”
In his opinion, the socialists “are hostages to their ambition for power and the ship is taking on water from all sides: the wife, the brother, the chief of staff, the former Minister of Transport, the Secretary of Organisation”. In short, “all of them are being singled out by the courts. All of them are awaiting a judicial future. Who could govern like this? What could go right?”, he asked.
For the secretary general of the Andalusian Popular Party, the PSOE has no project beyond holding on to power by any means, clinging to anything. “And if the PSOE has no project in Spain, much less in Andalusia,” he said, stressing: “not one word of support from Pedro Sánchez to Juan Espadas. Not one gesture of support, despite the fact that the congress was held in Seville.”
Antonio Repullo has pointed out that “Sanchez devoted more attention to criticising our beloved mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz, than to Espadas. This shows what drives Sánchez: he tries to prevent the PP from governing anywhere. They are bothered by José Luis's good management in Seville because it reveals the reality of Sanchism, which is nothing.”
So, forced by this lack of support in Andalusia and Madrid, “Espadas has been forced to call the regional congress of the Andalusian PSOE.” It will be at the end of February. “That is to say, the Andalusian socialists will be once again entangled in their internal messes. Yesterday, Espadas gave the starting signal for conspiracies, clandestine meetings, shadow pacts and shady deals that will keep the leaders of his party busy until practically March.”
From his point of view, “the few mayors, presidents of the Provincial Council, councillors, deputies, senators, government delegates, heads of organisations that have dedicated themselves to politicising things, such as the hydrographic confederations, associations, etc., will now be busy with this power game until practically the month of March”. So he asked himself: “What can go well?”
“It is a good thing that Andalusia does not depend on them,” said the secretary general of the Andalusian Popular Party. “It is a good thing that the mayors and councillors of the PP, the provincial councils governed by the PP and the Andalusian Government are focused on management and on solving the problems of this land,” he proclaimed, warning that “the socialists can continue to dither, wasting time on their internal problems, because we will be focused on Andalusia.”
The proposal for a state-owned housing company is a “distraction policy”
The secretary general of the PP of Andalusia has explained that “while we govern, they throw up smoke screens and distraction policies” and has described Sánchez’s announcement of creating a public housing company as “smoke”, after recalling that, in July of this year, Sánchez announced the construction of 43.000 homes for social rental and at an affordable price. “Before, on December 18, 2023, a month after being invested as president of the Government, he promised to enable 184.000 public homes,” he pointed out before asking: “Has anyone seen any of those homes? What has the Government done to fulfill those promises? Nothing.”
Along these lines, Repullo has asked himself why there is a public housing company if there is already a ministry. “And what has this ministry done? What has the Housing Minister done? Has anyone noticed any improvement in rental prices? The only thing they have done is an interventionist law that has driven up prices and created insecurity among property owners.”
The celebration of corruption, misgovernment, lies and victimhood
“Nothing surprises us anymore about Pedro Sánchez,” he said. “He is alone, surrounded by a praetorian guard led by the Andalusian María Jesús Montero, determined to sacrifice herself politically with him, and with nothing to offer.” According to Repullo, “in the absence of projects, in the absence of hope, Pedro Sánchez only invents enemies. His manual of resistance is a victimist narrative in which he tries to stay standing by accusing everyone else: journalists, judges, the opposition, businessmen, the self-employed. In his imagination, we are all enemies.”
He also stressed that Sánchez “invents threats everywhere to justify that the end justifies the means. And his only goal, his essence, his only motivation, is to stay in power. At all costs. Without scruples.”
“It is embarrassing to hear Pedro Sánchez talk about “the powerful” when they are the ones who have the power, but cannot govern. Their parliamentary partners have them tied hand and foot. That is what they wanted with an impossible alliance and all of Spain has been paying for it for six years.” At this point, he recalled the elimination of crimes such as sedition and the reduction of embezzlement, the pardons for convicted politicians, the amnesty, the hidden pacts with Bildu, the relations with the most anti-democratic regimes in Latin America and with dictatorships such as that of Venezuela. “This is the bill that Pedro Sánchez and the Andalusian sanchistas leave us in Spain,” he stressed.
In short, the secretary general of the PP of Andalusia has concluded that “yesterday the congress of shame ended. The one of imaginary problems. Those that only happen in the heads of the socialists, because Spain is not in that. Andalusia is not in that. Because this society is not as the members of the PSOE painted it this weekend.”
For Repullo, “when a party has nothing to contribute, when it has nothing to say, when it has no project, no aspirations, no future, it dedicates itself to inventing enemies to justify itself” and “the PSOE congress has been a celebration of corruption, of misgovernment, of lies and above all of victimhood”. For all this, the secretary general of the Andalusian Popular Party has assured that “listening to what I heard, seeing what I saw, I feel even more proud to belong to a party like the Andalusian PP. A team of people who only seek the best for their municipalities”.
“If the good side of history is the EREs, the independence quota or the Only Yes is Yes law, we are delighted to be on the other side”
After recalling that Pedro Sánchez said that they are on the good side of history, Repullo has questioned: “Are the EREs the good side of history? Is the accused Attorney General on the good side of history? Is negotiating a Catalan quota behind the backs of the rest of the autonomous communities the good side of history? Is the “yes is yes” law that got rapists out of jail the good side of history? “If that is the case, we are delighted to be on the other side,” he said, arguing that “I feel that we are changing things for the better. With Juanma Moreno at the head of the Junta, our land, Andalusia, is growing, improving and fulfilling its promise.”
“And if our side is the wild side of life, as Lou Reed sang, then from here we will fight for citizenship. For truth. For justice. And for equality,” said Repullo, adding that “in the face of the unreason, inequality and Caesarism of Sanchismo, we have the upright, transparent, useful and communicative management of the Popular Party.”
Six years of Juanma Moreno's government: "it shows that with work, honesty and moderation, it is possible to govern for everyone"
The secretary general of the Andalusian PP has thus emphasised that they are “two ways of doing politics. Two ways of building Andalusia. That of socialist shady dealings or that of the opportunities of the Popular Party”.
On the sixth anniversary of the change in Andalusia, Antonio Repullo has argued that “the government of Juanma Moreno has shown how politics is the vehicle through which we can transform realities, address challenges and build a better future”. “Andalusia is today an economic locomotive”, he says. “For 40 years they told us it was impossible. That nothing more could be done. That we Andalusians were like that. That we should settle for that. That they would only govern well if you voted for them. Same story as yesterday from Sánchez”. Despite this, he has highlighted that “Juanma Moreno is showing in Andalusia that, with work, with a prepared team, with honesty, with ambition for the future of our land, we can grow, that we can create jobs, that we can govern from moderation, for each and every Andalusian”.
