In the campaign, anything goes, especially when even the last vote is essential, either to win, or to not have to depend so much on Vox. So the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has entrusted himself to Fadie the cow, who four years ago became famous because the then candidate to preside over the Junta asked for her vote. “Are you going to vote for the PP? He asked her then.
She became, from that moment, a true diva of television and social networks, which made the meeting between the cow and the PP candidate go viral, who in 2018 did not win the elections, but was able to govern, converting since then , to Fadie in her “talisman cow”.
Today, almost four years later, and in the middle of the electoral campaign, Juanma Moreno, now president of the Board, returned to the El Cruce cattle farm, in the Cordoba town of Añora, and looked for Fadie, who in these years, and her 7 years, has achieved many awards. She is a cow almost 1.80 meters tall, almost the height of the Andalusian president, and 700 kilos in weight, which gives about 70 liters of milk a day.
During his visit to the farm this Wednesday, Juanma Moreno was very affectionate with Fadie, whom he expressly sought. “She is a champion”, he praised her to make her the campaign plea: “and you have to bring luck again”, he said, although this time he did not ask her for the vote. Of course, he went out for a walk through the cattle ranch with the cow, and she followed him meekly. Juanma Moreno did not think twice, and addressing the media, and the owners of the ranch, she commented: “And if I take her to San Telmo?”, Headquarters of the Board. But no, Moreno left and Fadie stayed at her house. It will be necessary to see if this time, the cow also brings him luck.
The PSOE candidate, Juan Espadas, did not miss the opportunity, and invented in one act the dialogue that the Andalusian president and Fadie the cow could have had: “The cow told you: Mr. Moreno, thank Mr. Sánchez and to Mr. Planas –Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food–, because these days we are receiving aid for the dairy sector that the Government of Spain promised to implement in the Valle de los Pedroches”.
He did not stop there: “That is what the cow told Mr. Moreno Bonilla”, who also believes that the animal will have reproached him “why he has not supplemented this aid, why the measures are taken only by the Government of Spain , helping the agricultural or livestock sector in the case of the Valle de los Pedroches, and the dairy sector, and you do not put a euro”.
In addition, according to the socialist candidate for the presidency of the Board, he will have asked Moreno, “why he does not talk about the decision that has been negotiated in Brussels by Mr. Planas and that has managed to go ahead so that the regional governments allocate a percentage of the Rural Development Funds (EAFRD) to compensate farmers and ranchers for losses as a result of the war in Ukraine, in supplies – feed, for example -, or increased spending on energy”.
Important questions that broke the magic of the moment lived hours before by the Andalusian president with Fadie the cow. On June 19 it will be known if he paid more attention to Juanma Moreno or Juan Espadas, and if he prefers that the PP continue as chairman of the board or if he prefers a change.
