The double strategy of the PP to the corruption of the PSOE

“corruption has crushed the PP. Has crushed the party and it has done much harm electorally. Many citizens have moved away from the party.” Two and half years ago, the candidate andalusian of the PP, Juan Manuel Moreno, gave an interview and employed a sincerity unusual in a politician. This reflection, at the height of scandals such as the cases Gürtel or Punic, explains today why the Popular Party andaluz, according to the campaign progresses, has been relegating corruption as a slogan to entice voters. Your idea force is now changing after 36 years of mandates socialists and the proposals of the Government, especially economic.

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on the other hand, the PP leader, Paul is Married, has dedicated the bulk of their messages campaign in Catalonia. Wherever it goes it invokes the motion of censure that removed the PP of The Moncloa to denounce “the indignity” of a Government “held hostage by the pro-independence” and most of his criticisms of Susana Díaz is precisely by not rebelling against Pedro Sanchez, who agrees with “those who want to break Spain”. Married it also does in all his speeches the corruption of the PSOE in andalusia. Speaking of “corrupt regime and patronage” on the Board and just yesterday, in Almeria, said that Diaz had participated in the Government with more corruption cases, in allusion to that of José Antonio Griñán.

The first day of the pre-campaign, hours before Diaz convene the elections, the PP andaluz started his career at the doors of a brothel, to denounce the spending of € 32,000 with cards of a public foundation by the Board in the clubs alternate. However, after that, started to Fenomenbet try to associate PSOE and the “beer-drinking fests”, Moreno has relegated their invective against the socialists, and now the corruption is a side issue that touches on a sporadic basis. “The change is in our first letter, not the corruption. Until the CIS survey asks for change, that is our mantra”, he says.

even in the 2012 elections, won by Javier Arenas with 50 seats, the denunciation of corruption, helped the PP to the absolute majority that grants the 55 deputies. That year, only six days of the date the polls, Juan Trujillo, former chauffeur of the main accused of the ERE, the former director of Work of the Board Javier Guerrero, confessed to the judge Mercedes Alaya who every month spent 25,000 euros of public funds in cocaine that both consumed. But it was not enough to boost the campaign of the PP, Javier Arenas stood at the gates of govern.

The corruption in the Board is a double-edged sword for the popular, highlights Paul Simon, professor of Political Science of the Carlos III University: “The studies talk about a corruption with positive externalities that are punished less, as when a mayor recalifica land but the voters understand that brings welfare to the people, and a corruption, individualized, and that does not redound to the people, who were punished more. The type of corruption of the PSOE in andalusia connects more with this kind of corruption of patronage that is punished less.”

the scandals of The socialists in the last decade are tied to that first category that benefits to other actors outside the PSOE. As the 6.096 early retirements in the ERE of large companies today perceive their policies, or the thousands of people benefited by the training courses thanks to the public funds and in those who have discovered several irregularities.

Only the last big corruption case linked to the exdirectivos of the Foundation Andalusian Fund of Training and Employment (Faffe) with irregular expenditure in clubs, brothels, lacks any positive effect on corruption. And this is also the most present in the interventions of Brown during this campaign. “We want to denounce the corruption of socialism, but with discretion. Juanma [Moreno] has led the case of the whorehouses, and the ERE was already beaten. That complaint carries his seal, and has exploited well. The Don Angelo [main club hostess investigated and today's left] is the best metaphor of the PSOE, a building in ruins where they have enjoyed a lot”, censor party supplies.

The internal corruption of the PP prevents their attacks on the PSOE to be admitted without more by the voters, stresses Simon. “The problem is the credibility of the actor. For them, corruption has a knock-on effect and it is difficult for Citizens not to put a mirror”, considers the political scientist.