The people of order do not go to demonstrations. Unless you believe your heritage is at risk or your status is in question. Both of these things, together with Génova’s need for the opposition to the amnesty to gain social support in other areas of Spain other than Madrid, explain why the southern right has organized in Malaga, with Feijóo and Moreno Bonilla, a protest in against the demons of the investiture. The location (Carrer Larios in the capital of the Costa del Sol, dedicated to one of the great industrial lineages of the 19th century, and Avinguda de la Constitucion) was a guarantee of success. Málaga is the Atlanta of the Andalusian PP. He has run the City Council for twenty-eight years and has dominated the deputation since 2011. It is Bendodo’s fiefdom. The city where the president of the Junta started doing politics. The origin of the clan that has ruled Andalusia for five years.
For the right of the south, there is no difference between amnesty, the referendum and regional funding. All three things – they stage it every week in Parliament – ??are the same: a threat to self-government. After thirty-six years at the hands of the PSOE, autonomy is theirs. And they use it accordingly: they link the pact with the pro-independence parties to the establishment of a territorial – and therefore social – asymmetry that evokes the ghosts of the underdevelopment of the 1980s, when the UCD wanted to leave Andalusia out of the first autonomy range The Malaga protest – 20,000 people – must be understood as the dress rehearsal for a new 4 December. On that day in 1977, two million people took to the streets to demand autonomy.
The right did not participate in the mobilization. Now he is the one promoting another one together with the (deceased) Andalusians, who since the summer have been pressuring Moreno Bonilla to get people out on the streets. San Telmo is not quite sure: a failed summon can act like a boomerang and turn against the one who casts it. Their prudence, in any case, is relative: the PP enjoys all the space necessary to raise the flag of territorial equality in the face of independence. The demonstrations of 1977 were a cause of the lasting socialist era of Andalusia. If they replicated now, they could become the tomb of the left.
The Andalusian PSOE, chained to the discipline of Ferraz, divided between the patriarchs, who oppose the amnesty, and the sanchista leaders, who defend it without much social success, has no arguments to combat the new Andalusianism of the right. In Sumar, the situation is no better: criticism comes from Andavant Andalusia, a split to its left. The replacement of the PSOE in the south by the PSC as the dominant force can give the PP a cycle equivalent to the one the PSOE had in Andalusia. The investiture of Sánchez for southern socialism is the same as the Andalusian self-government was for the UCD: a death trap.
