PSOE claims its inheritance in Andalusia after ERE ruling

Constitutional Court partially considered last Tuesday the call of the former president of the Junta de Andalucía Manuel Chaves and ordered the return of his case to the Court of Seville, so that reconsider and reduce your sentence of new years of disqualification in the case of the ERE. He also acquitted the former president José Antonio Griñán all the embezzlement for which he was sentenced to six years in prison for the “specific procedure” for financing fraudulent labor regulations files at the expense of regional funds. Following this judicial decision, Chaves first appeared on Thursday morning at a press conference to celebrate the annulment of his sentence, and in the afternoon the PSOE-A claimed the party's legacy in Andalusia.

Has been Juan Espadasgeneral secretary of the PSOE-A, who has assured that the Constitutional Court's rulings on Manuel Chaves and Pepe Griñán and those responsible for the socialist government with annulled sentences on the ERE represent “a before and after”, and therefore he represents his history, “the pride of being socialist” and their “management for 37 years of rule”.

Speaking before the PSOE-A Steering Committee that met in Seville on Thursday, Espadas defended that these resolutions “replace a resolution” very serious violation of rights'to the former presidents, councillors and high-ranking socialist officials protected by the Constitutional Court, to whom he explicitly addressed himself to emphasise that 'they have the open arms of the party, whenever they want, to work again and govern Andalusia in 2026.'

In the same way he indicated this with this sentence An end comes to “more than ten years of persecution and drama” of the PSOE by the PPas the Constitutional Court confirms that from the right 'they have invented a story, built a big lie that has ended up being a verdict': 'They have damaged the credibility of the citizens in the PSOE and tried to erase 37 years of Andalusian history in which the PP now manages without contributing anything, with Moreno Bonilla living off the story.”

Chaves denounces the “political and media operation”

Former President Manuel Chaves, 79, has appeared in public after the ruling annulling his conviction in the ERE case and has said that he has suffered intimidation from the judiciary, politics and media right since February 17, 2015: “Everything is clear a political, media operation, with legal clothingset up by the PP with the aim of expelling the PSOE from the Junta government.” “That is to say, achieving what they could not have achieved with the votes of the Andalusians: undermining the credibility of the PSOE before the citizens with deceit and false personal accusations. An operation to discredit the thirty most brilliant years of management in Andalusia,” he stressed.

“Two chairmen of the Board of Directors, several council members, high officials on the test bench… Can anyone believe that this situation did not affect the election results? There was a clear link between the ERE and the election results”, he emphasized in the same sentence.

In short, Chaves has maintained that the ERE case influenced the 2019 elections, which brought Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla’s PP into the Junta government for the first time in the history of Andalusian autonomy. He did so with the support of Ciudadanos and Vox.

“We have always been proud of our management and now, with the ruling of the Constitutional Court, we can say it more clearly. We can clean up the mud that has been dumped on us,” he noted, demanding the color red in the successive governments in Andalusia until 2019.