On a day marked by political anticipation in Andalusia, the Secretary General of PSOE in Cádiz, Juan Carlos Ruiz Boix, appealed for massive participation from the province's progressive electorate to decide the future of the autonomous community. The socialist leader stressed the importance of going to the polls to prevent demobilization and defend public services.
The socialist leader expressed his confidence in achieving high participation from militants and voters who previously supported Pedro Sánchez's project in July 2023, stating that "today could be a day of major surprises" that will overturn the right-wing polls, as the party announced in a press release.
“"We hope that those polls, which are exclusively aimed at demobilizing the left, do not come true"
Ruiz Boix encouraged the citizens of Cádiz to turn out in large numbers at polling stations to match or exceed the figures of the general elections and surpass the 70% participation mark. For the provincial leader, the election is decisive because "it will determine the direction of healthcare, education, dependency care, and housing for the next four years in our land."
Ruiz Boix highlighted the "titanic effort" made by the entire provincial organization of PSOE of Cádiz, which during the 15 days of campaign and the preceding weeks of pre-campaign has covered "all corners, the five regions, and the 45 municipalities of the province" with active street presence. Through "door-to-door" campaigns, the socialists have directly conveyed the PSOE of Andalusia's project, the only real alternative to reverse the social regression the autonomous community is experiencing.
The Secretary General identified the recovery of public healthcare quality as the absolute priority of the socialist project. "We commit to considerably reducing the unbearable waiting lists and legally guaranteeing access to a primary care physician within a maximum of 48 hours," he argued, pointing to this commitment as a vital measure to safeguard universal and public access to the healthcare system against the diversion of funds to the private sector by the PP government.
Similarly, Ruiz Boix criticized the "elitist drift" of the Popular Party in education. The socialist representative lamented that working-class Andalusian families see how young people with the greatest sacrifice and effort face barriers to accessing public education, vocational training, and university, while the government "favors and inaugurates five new private universities" where access is based not on merit, but on purchasing power.
The PSOE leader from Cádiz also denounced the "social drama" and institutional abandonment suffered by the elderly and dependent individuals in the province. "It is inadmissible that those who have worked so hard over the last 40 or 50 years to build the democratic Andalusia we enjoy today are faced with waiting lists exceeding 600 days when they try to access a basic right like that of the Dependency Law," he harshly censured.
Finally, Ruiz Boix emphasized that access to decent housing must become the major pending issue that the new Andalusian government must address immediately, a challenge that the current PP government has systematically ignored. "There are more than enough reasons for change. The socialist vote is the only one capable of safeguarding the welfare state and ensuring that Andalusia does not continue to regress," he concluded.
Meanwhile, the lead candidate for the Andalusian parliament for the province of Cádiz, Juan Cornejo, voted in his hometown of Medina Sidonia. There, Cornejo stated that "today is a happy and beautiful day for all democrats, where the Andalusian and Cadiz people will freely choose who represents them in parliament and who governs them, without anyone writing their present and future for them; they will do it themselves." He wanted to thank all the poll workers, representatives, and PSOE militants in the province of Cádiz for their work and commitment, highlighting that "they are the soul of our party."
