Susana Diaz will face this Sunday for the first time voters: at 40 years and five months pregnant, the head of the government of Andalusia has become the hope Socialist Party (PSOE) to retake the course in a crowded elections which will culminate with general elections in Spain year.
In January, he announced early elections in the southern region of Spain, traditional stronghold the Socialists. The national leadership of the party, headed by Pedro Sánchez, will closely follow an outcome that could revitalize it.
Losing Andalusia would be a hard blow to take for PSOE. Win, as polls suggest, a breath of fresh air amid the worst crisis of the party, who is not getting off since the defeat in the general election of November 2011, in the PP Mariano Rajoy took the victory.
Susana Díaz Pacheco (Seville, 1974) took over the government of Andalusia in September 2013, following the resignation of the then president, Jose Antonio Grin, which was right.
Until then, was virtually unknown to most of the Spaniards, but soon became a rising star of the PSOE, which was challenged by a potential leadership crisis . When a little over half a year he had to find a leader in the party, leading Socialist asked unsuccessfully to blow the step up.
In its decision of early elections, after breaking the pact of government United Left, a move some saw the head of the regional government to jump to the national political scene.
Diaz always denied any intention of competing with the PSOE leader’s candidacy for president of the Spanish government ahead of the general election. “My place is in Andalusia ,” he said repeatedly. But it is known distance with Sanchez.
Throughout the campaign, Diaz just told him twice, against half a dozen who came Mariano Rajoy to support their candidate in Andalusia , Juan Manuel Moreno, one of the main opponents of the socialist president.
The leadership of Pedro Sanchez fails to materialize, six months after taking the reins party. Diaz is the most powerful regional leader and the best results obtained within the PSOE, in European elections last May.
Coming from a poor family and born in Triana, the most popular district of Seville, Andalusian perceive nearby. It is religious, married and expecting her first child. In politics, has an upward trajectory in which he always knew how to seize opportunities.
According to the latest survey by the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS, state), is the most valued candidate in the southern region of Spain. On Wednesday he faced his first “puff” during the campaign, when a group of disgruntled citizens with their management rebuked him down the street, calling her “a liar” and “coward”.
The polls will go test his leadership, little discussed in the party and very supported in the polls, which give the victory but without an absolute majority. If so, have to resort to pacts with other political forces to maintain the regional government in the hands of the PSOE.
The socialist rule Andalusia continuously since more than 30 years. The latter were marked by economic crisis and high unemployment, higher than the national average, but also for corruption uncovered in the region, some of which splashed directly to the game.
” Not only are going to pursue (corrupt), but if you make some kind of irregularity are going to be very difficult to come to the resources that are all Andalusians, “Diaz said recently in an act election campaign.
The Andalusian President shall also be the first leader who faces at the polls the effect can, the party of university professor Pablo Iglesias, in a year of life has been turned upside down the political scene in Spain.
Having become one of the main opponents of the PSOE, the head of the Andalusian government has already announced a few days that no pact with the training nor “right” makes an allusion to PP Conservative Mariano Rajoy.
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