Juanma Moreno has celebrated the “important victory” of the PP-A in the Andalusian elections this Sunday, in which it has achieved 53 seats and has been two short of an absolute majority. The popular candidate has guaranteed “four more years of stability” for Andalusia and has summarized the result with a phrase: “We have not got top marks, but we have got a very good grade”.
Moreno appeared before the regional headquarters of the PP-A, on San Fernando street in Seville, accompanied by his wife, Manuela Villena, members of his Government and party leaders. The attendees received him with shouts of “president”, while Kilómetro sur, the campaign song he himself performs, played.
The popular candidate has highlighted that the PP-A has met its objectives by winning the elections and doing so in all eight Andalusian provinces. According to him, his party has obtained “150,000 more votes” than in 2022, almost 20 points ahead of the PSOE-A and about 30 ahead of Vox.
Moreno has admitted that the absolute majority depended on the final distribution of seats and the D’Hondt Law, which “sometimes favors and sometimes harms”. Despite not regaining the absolute majority of 2022, he has defended that the result represents a “very good grade”.
Moreno has thanked the support of more than 1.7 million Andalusians, a figure he has described as “unreachable and unthinkable” seven and a half years ago, when the PP-A began its project of “reform and change” in Andalusia.
The popular leader has interpreted the result as a “clear and definitive mandate” to continue transforming Andalusia into a community “more prosperous, with greater well-being” and with a vocation for leadership in Spain.
Vox candidate Manuel Gavira celebrated the PP’s loss of its absolute majority in Andalusia and urged them to “listen” to the Andalusian people, who want “national priority.” Amidst an atmosphere of euphoria over gaining a seat, bringing their total to 15, and especially over the opportunity to influence the PP, Gavira was the first of the candidates to speak. The far-right leader, Santiago Abascal, boasted that his party “is once again decisive” after the elections, in which, with 99% of the votes counted, the People’s Party (PP) won with 53 seats, still three short of an absolute majority. A PP would reach 15 seats by combining its seats with those of Vox, which gained one seat.