The parties have launched their campaign for the general elections on 29 November, in which the province will elect eleven deputies and four senators, the second highest number of seats in Andalusia.
The campaign for the general elections on 29 November has kicked off in the province of Málaga, where eleven deputies and four senators are to be elected, as reported by Diario Sur. Only Seville has more seats at stake in Andalusia, so the main parties face fifteen days of intense competition.
The PP aims to regain the majority in the province and, according to its leaders, contribute to change in Spain. The PSOE wants to improve on its results from three years ago. Vox is confident in its electoral appeal and in polls that give it one more representative. In the alternative left, Frente Amplio and Adelante Andalucía are competing for the same seat, which current polls assign to the latter.
From the cube of the Pompidou Museum, Elías Bendodo, head of the PP list for Congress, called for Málaga to be one of "the engines of change" after, he said, eight years of lack of investment by the Government of Pedro Sánchez. Bendodo reproached the provincial PSOE for not holding a campaign launch event in Málaga, as its leaders had travelled to Seville for the president's rally.
"not even daring to show their face" before the people of Málaga
At the PP event, senator Francisco Salado, the mayor of Málaga, Francisco de la Torre, and provincial president Patricia Navarro participated, encouraging locals to fill the ballot boxes with "votes of hope, of illusion, of future and reconstruction of Spain".
The PSOE sent its members to Seville, although in the morning its head of list, José Bernal, distributed information at the market in Ciudad Jardín, in the capital. Bernal asserted that these are the "most important" elections in the last four decades and announced that the socialists will tour all 103 municipalities in the province.
Bernal recalled that four years ago the PSOE was just 2,500 votes short of obtaining the fourth seat for Málaga and set the goal of achieving it this time. In his speech, he summarised his party's message: voting for the PSOE means defending social rights, public freedoms, access to housing, decent pensions, and functioning public services.
In the Plaza de la Marina in the capital, where Vox traditionally starts its campaigns, the number two on the list, Patricia Rueda, outlined three key points: national priority, less bureaucracy, and a change in migration policy with more border control. Rueda linked these proposals to access to housing, social aid, and the tax burden on families and businesses.
"This campaign begins with a clear message: Spaniards must be the priority of institutions."
Among her proposals, Rueda mentioned reductions in IRPF, VAT, and Corporate Tax, repealing three regulations for every new one approved, and implementing positive administrative silence as a general rule. Her summary was brief: "Less taxes and less red tape".
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