Susana Díaz PSOE–A
59-454: Susana Díaz PSOE–A The 2015 Andalusian regional election was held on Sunday, 22 March 2015, to elect the 10th Parliament of the autonomous community of Andalusia . All 109 seats in the Parliament were up for election. President Susana Díaz chose to terminate the coalition government between her Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE–A) and United Left (IULV–CA), dissolving
118-633: A coalition government with United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA). In July 2013, José Antonio Griñán announced his intention to resign from office in order to "preserve the Regional Government from the erosion of the ERE scandal ", a large slush fund corruption scheme involving former leading figures of the regional PSOE's branch, including former development minister Magdalena Álvarez , with former Andalusian president Manuel Chaves and himself being accused of knowing and concealing such
177-442: A leadership contest was held. Díaz, who still had not won any major election, did not run, but a coalition of regional leaders including herself, opposed the candidacy of early front-runner Eduardo Madina , who was seen as Rubalcaba's heir , and supported a change in the party's policies. These regional leaders backed Economics Ph.D. Pedro Sánchez to become the party's new leader, what eventually happened, with Sánchez winning
236-459: A party crisis . Sánchez challenged his critics to defeat him in a primary election, however, by 1 October he had lost control of both the Executive and Federal Party Committees, resigning as party leader and as an MP. A caretaker committee led by Asturian president Javier Fernández Fernández ordered all PSOE MPs to abstain in order to allow Rajoy to remain in office, considering the alternative
295-510: A vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy that placed him as Prime Minister of Spain with the support of Podemos and Catalan and Basque nationalist parties. Citizens, Diaz's partner in Andalusia and being a party that strongly opposes these movements, withdrew their support to PSOE and Díaz, triggering a snap election . In the 2018 Andalusian regional election support for Diaz's socialist party dropped to 33 seats, losing 14 from
354-482: A "political blockade" over Andalusia and threatening them with a new election in the event of her failing to get elected. PP regional leader Juanma Moreno accused Díaz of "arrogance" and of "asking them to allow her investiture without yielding to their conditions", also asking himself why Díaz kept holding investiture votings if no inter-party agreement had been reached. Teresa Rodríguez from Podemos also criticised Díaz for not accepting her party's conditions, blaming
413-435: A 10-point difference over Díaz in the membership vote, took full control of the party and removed all his critics from the party's executive leadership. Former and regional leaders' support proved to be more of a burden rather than a boost for Díaz, as this was exploited by Sánchez to tick her as the establishment 's candidate, gaining support from the party's grassroots. In May 2018, national PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez filed
472-519: A caretaker capacity. Díaz warned Sánchez that the party would not tolerate another electoral loss. In the repeat elections , the PSOE maintained second place and lost five seats, while Rajoy's PP came first and gained 14 seats; the King invited Rajoy to form a government, however, a majority of Congress was still hostile to him. Despite another second-place showing as PSOE leader, Sánchez was confident he could form
531-655: A government as a majority of the Congress of Deputies were hostile to him. King Felipe VI then invited the runner-up PSOE 's leader Pedro Sánchez to form a government; however, Díaz and her coalition of regional leaders barred Sánchez from forming a government with the third-place left-wing populist , anti-austerity Podemos thus forcing him to make a deal with the fourth-place, liberal-conservative Citizens . However, this arrangement would not achieve parliamentary majority, and repeat general elections were held six months later in 2016 while Rajoy remained prime minister in
590-650: A government with the 180 (out of 350) deputies who opposed Rajoy and the PP, including Podemos as well as Catalan and Basque regionalist and separatist parties. Díaz, meanwhile, soundly advocated that the PSOE should remain in opposition and allow Rajoy to form a government. This, added to more defeats of PSOE in Galicia and Basque Country regional elections, being overtaken by Podemos -led alliances and achieving record low results, prompted dissenters—led by Susana Díaz—to call for Sánchez's immediate resignation as PSOE leader and led to
649-480: A governmental-favored firm through illegal means and "without observing the slightest rigor" in February–March 2015, previously and during the regional election campaign. With Díaz's government refusing to give explanations over the scandal, all four parties reassured their negative to allow for Díaz's investiture in the 14 May vote, with then-acting president Susana Díaz blaming all four opposition parties of imposing
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#1732883470311708-784: A leading figure in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) as the former leader of the Andalusian PSOE-A . She served as the president of Andalusia until January 2019, having acceded to the presidency following José Antonio Griñán 's resignation in 2013, and was subsequently re-elected in Andalusia's 2015 regional election . Until July 2021, she served as the Secretary-General of the Andalusian branch of PSOE. From 2016 she combined her regional roles with aspirations to
767-489: A majority of the party member's vote. As a setoff, critical regional leaders entered PSOE's executive committee. Following a disagreement with the United Left, she called for early elections, which were held in 2015. During the 2015 Andalusian parliamentary election , Díaz led a forceful campaign against Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy , opposing the austerity policies enacted by his central government. Díaz also insisted that
826-418: A minority cabinet, ruling out a coalition with any other party; however, until June 2015 she was not able to prevent all other parties from blocking her election. Andalusian law established that if no candidate was elected president in the two months following the first investiture ballot, then parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a new election would be held no later than September 2015. Susana Díaz
885-484: A plot. Griñán was succeeded by Susana Díaz at the helm of the regional government. Despite the apparent parliamentary comfort of the ruling coalition, friction between both PSOE and IU remained an issue throughout the entire legislature, especially after Susana Díaz took over the government in September 2013. In April 2014, an episode of IU's housing counsellor awarding several government houses to homeless families without
944-400: A result of the electoral campaign centering the political focus. However, on 5 June, on the impossibility to have Díaz formally invested, the PSOE threatened the opposition parties with letting the legal time limit for the automatic dissolution of the parliament to expire should an agreement not be reached with anyone before Tuesday, 9 June. In the end, the PSOE and C's reached an agreement, with
1003-467: A stability that currently does not exist", opening the door for a snap election to be held within a short time. On 20 January Díaz met all eight PSOE provincial leaders in order to seek support within the party for a snap election in March 2015, which she received; subsequently, mutual attacks between both PSOE and IU, accusing each other of breaching the coalition agreement, made it clear that the only solution to
1062-616: A surface of 550,000 hectares . The province alone produces more olive oil than the entire country of Italy. The province's production in 2013 was 749.387 tonnes of olive oil. The flag of the province of Jaén was approved by the Provincial Council of Jaén, in the plenary session held on March 3, 2014, and registered in the Andalusian Registry of Local Entities, complying with Law 6/2003, of October 9 of Symbols, Processing and Registration of Andalusian Local Entities. The flag
1121-561: A system known as "begged" or expat vote ( Spanish : Voto rogado ). The 109 members of the Parliament of Andalusia were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation , with an electoral threshold of three percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Almería , Cádiz , Córdoba , Granada , Huelva , Jaén , Málaga and Seville , with each being allocated an initial minimum of eight seats and
1180-552: A time when opinion polls were still favorable to the PSOE in Andalusia. On 17 February 2015, one month short of the election, the Spanish Supreme Court charged former Andalusian presidents Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán in the ERE scandal for their possible responsibility in the misuse of the misappropriated public funds. The PSOE insisted on the same day that it would not require Chaves and Griñán to give up their seats in
1239-410: Is a province of southern Spain , in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia . It is bordered by the provinces of Ciudad Real , Albacete , Granada and Córdoba . Its capital is the city of Jaén . It has a total area of 13,484 km² . Its population is 619,938 as of 1 July 2023, about one sixth of whom living in the capital. It contains 97 municipalities . The highest point of
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#17328834703111298-420: Is arranged in a rectangular cloth with a proportion of 1/1.5, being longer than it is wide. It has an area of 10×15 sectors, with the shield being three sectors high and eight sectors wide; and occupying six sectors high and five sectors wide. The flag is green Pantone color 377, in reference to the natural heritage of the province. The historical population is given in the following chart: This article about
1357-479: The Congress of Deputies and Senate , despite both incumbent president Susana Díaz and PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez having assured in the past that they would do so in the event of both of them being charged. The Parliament of Andalusia was officially dissolved on 27 January 2015, after the publication of the dissolution decree in the Official Gazette of the Regional Government of Andalusia. The table below shows
1416-575: The Spanish Constitution and the Andalusian Statute of Autonomy , as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president . Voting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage , which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in Andalusia and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Additionally, Andalusians abroad were required to apply for voting before being permitted to vote,
1475-460: The Spanish Government . This represented the party's worst result at a regional election in Andalusia since the 1990 election , falling below 30% of the vote. The main beneficiaries of the election were parties alternative to the considered "traditional" ones — Podemos and Citizens, both of them, despite polling slightly lower than what early polls predicted, winning seats for the first time in
1534-543: The University of Seville and finished her degree after ten years. Susana Díaz was elected secretary of Organisation of Socialist Youth of Andalusia in 1997. In the elections of June 1999, she was included in the list of the PSOE to the City of Seville and was elected as councillor. In the same election Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín was elected as mayor. Susana Díaz studied law at the University of Seville . After her time with
1593-417: The economic crisis and the corruption scandals affecting the party nationwide, the PP scored its worst result since 1990 . The election also saw a strong performance by newcomers Podemos ( Spanish for "We can") and Citizens (C's), which faced their first electoral test since the 2014 European Parliament election . IULV–CA was decimated by Podemos's surge and obtained its worst historical showing. After
1652-616: The Levant , thanks to its strategic position during the Reconquista . The annual chess tournament , held until 2010 in Linares , attracted many of the world's best players. The province is the largest producer of olive oil in the world. It produces around 45% of all Spanish olive oil and 20% of the world's production. For this reason the province is also known as World Capital of Olive Oil . There are more than 66 million olive trees, spread over
1711-485: The PP conditions, requesting party regional leader Juanma Moreno to "act with responsibility, without pretending weird exchanges that the people would not understand". Moreno, in response, accused Díaz of "arrogancy" and told her that "with 47 seats one can't pretend to negotiate as if one had 55 [an absolute majority of seats]". Susana Díaz's investiture for a second term as president of Andalusia remained unclear for one month. She explicitly expressed her intention to form
1770-407: The PSOE for the political instability in the region and stating that a new election would mean the PSOE's failure in forming a government through dialogue. All opposition parties also reiterated their position that they did not trust Díaz to fulfill any compromise once she did get elected. New investiture votes were initially postponed until after the 24 May Spanish regional and local elections as
1829-511: The Parliament and calling a snap election for 22 March 2015. Andalusia had been traditionally considered a PSOE stronghold, being the only region in Spain in which no other party had led the regional government since the Spanish transition to democracy . The PSOE–A regained first place from a declining People's Party (PP). Suffering from voters' anger at Mariano Rajoy 's national government management of
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1888-546: The Parliament of Andalusia. The post-election scenario, however, turned more difficult than what was originally expected. IU collapse from 12 to 5 seats turned it into a minority force in the new parliament, preventing the PSOE from attempting a renewal of the 2012–2015 coalition—a scenario which IU itself refused, due to the abrupt dissolution of the previous agreement. The PP, initially widely expected to abstain in Susana Díaz's investiture voting in order to allow "a government of
1947-415: The Parliament on Sunday, 24 April 2016. The president had the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament of Andalusia and call a snap election , provided that no motion of no confidence was in process and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since the previous one. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot,
2006-462: The Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called. Despite losing the 2012 regional election to the People's Party (PP), which won a regional election in Andalusia for the first time since the establishment of the autonomous community, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) under José Antonio Griñán was able to remain in office for a ninth consecutive term after forming
2065-677: The Socialist Youth, she held various political positions (deputy for Seville in the Congress of Deputies between 2004 and 2008, deputy for Seville in the Parliament of Andalusia since 2008, and senator for Andalusia between 2011 and 2012) and organic positions within the PSOE (organisational secretary of the PSOE in Seville between 2004 and 2010 and of the PSOE in Andalusia from March 2010 to July 2012). On 6 May 2012, José Antonio Griñán placed her at
2124-663: The Socialists would not form an alliance with the PP or Podemos if the vote failed to produce an outright winner. In the election, Díaz's party retained the same number of seats as before the election – 47 – although the election was still considered a victory for the PSOE as it regained its previous status as the largest party in the Andalusian Parliament. This was because the main opposition PP lost 17 seats and Díaz's former coalition partner, United Left, lost 7 seats. Two new parties,
2183-508: The [people's] confidence in the ballots". Spanish media speculated that the snap election came as a result of different factors; namely, Susana Díaz's private aspirations to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party 's leadership—despite her publicly refusing it—, as well as both Podemos 's surge in opinion polls and to prevent the party's exhaustion after all 2015 electoral calls— local and regional in May, Catalan in September and general in autumn—, in
2242-410: The composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of dissolution. The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry , coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of
2301-445: The distribution of votes among candidacies. The term of the Parliament of Andalusia expired four years after the date of its previous election, unless it was dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of the Regional Government of Andalusia (BOJA), with election day taking place on
2360-427: The election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election: The tables below list opinion polling results in reverse chronological order, showing
2419-417: The election was a hung parliament , with the PSOE winning the same number of seats it had previously—47. Still, it performed slightly better than what most polls had predicted, despite falling eight seats short of the absolute majority they had set as an objective. The PP plummeted to just 33 seats after scoring its best ever result in the 2012 election, suffering the burden of PM Mariano Rajoy 's governance in
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2478-407: The election, the PP announced it would block any PSOE attempt to form a government, a shock to many after the party had assured during the electoral campaign that it would allow the most-voted party to access government. Podemos and C's remained reluctant to lend support to Susana Díaz's investiture, whereas IU was not willing to align with the Socialists again after their previous alliance broke up. In
2537-432: The end, however, after the 2015 Spanish regional and municipal elections were held, C's agreed to support Díaz investiture on less harsher conditions than initially required, in order to end the parliamentary deadlock and prevent a new election. The Parliament of Andalusia was the devolved , unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Andalusia , having legislative power in regional matters as defined by
2596-470: The fifty-fourth day from publication barring any date within from 1 July to 31 August. The previous election was held on 25 March 2012, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 25 March 2016. The election decree was required to be published in the BOJA no later than 1 March 2016, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for
2655-517: The head of the Ministry of Presidency and Equality in the Junta de Andalucía . She was Secretary General of the PSOE in Seville between 14 July 2012 and 30 November 2013. Díaz was elected as President of Andalusia in 2013, ruling in coalition with the left-wing United Left party. In the aftermath of 2014 European Parliament election in Spain , PSOE's national leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba resigned and
2714-403: The latter accepting to support Díaz to end the parliamentary deadlock and prevent a new election, lifting off their requirement for Chaves and Griñan's resignations before considering to enter negotiations with the PSOE. Susana D%C3%ADaz Susana Díaz Pacheco ( Spanish pronunciation: [suˈsana ˈði.aθ] ; born 18 October 1974) is a Spanish politician from Andalusia and
2773-473: The left-wing Podemos and the centre-right Citizens , won 15 and 9 seats respectively. After a long period of three-way negotiations with the two new parties, Diaz agreed with Citizens, and in early May 2015, she was subsequently re-elected as regional President. General elections were held in Spain in December 2015 . Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy 's [People's Party (Spain|PP) won the most seats, but refused to form
2832-420: The most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on
2891-452: The most-voted party", announced instead that it would vote against Díaz's investiture. Newcomers Podemos and Citizens became decisive in the election of any future cabinet, yet remained reluctant to support a new PSOE government. The parties presented a series of harsh pre-agreement conditions, regarding political corruption and other issues, for the PSOE to comply with in order to allow for agreement talks: Susana Díaz immediately ruled out
2950-493: The national leadership of the party. Following her defeat to Pedro Sánchez in the 2017 PSOE leadership elections , she has continued with her regional responsibilities. Susana Díaz was born the eldest child to José Díaz, a plumber in the Seville City Council, and his wife, Rosa Pacheco, a housewife with whom he had three other daughters, Diana, Rocío and Laura. She has a child named José María. She studied law at
3009-466: The ongoing governmental crisis would come by the calling of a snap election. An extraordinary parliamentary plenary session was held on Monday, 26 January, where Díaz announced the dissolution of parliament and the subsequent calling of a snap election for 22 March. Díaz herself had previously declared, during a PSOE rally in Seville, that "It is time for the Andalusian people to speak" and "We shall obtain
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#17328834703113068-472: The polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 55 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of Andalusia . Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls Exit poll The table below shows registered vote turnout on election day without including voters from the Census of Absent-Residents (CERA). The result of
3127-446: The president's consent resulted in the counsellor seeing her competences removed and in the coalition pact nearly breaking up. In January 2015, tension between both coalition partners reached its peak after IU proposed holding a referendum among its members in June 2015 on whether to remain or withdraw from the government. In response, Susana Díaz declared that "we need a government which enjoys
3186-469: The previous election. Once again her political party was the most voted in Andalusia, but Susana Diaz could lose the presidency of Andalusia if the People's Party and Citizens joined forces with VOX ; a new political party without previous representation that retrieved 12 seats and was labelled by Diaz as " far-right ". Province of Ja%C3%A9n (Spain) Jaén ( Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈen] )
3245-405: The province is Pico Mágina (2165 m). One of the less-known provinces of Spain, compared to the tourist-oriented coast, it has four national parks and many other protected natural areas. The province also contains two Renaissance cities, Úbeda and Baeza , both recently declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. The province has among the highest concentration of castles in the world outside
3304-413: The remaining 45 being distributed in proportion to their populations (provided that the number of seats in each province did not exceed two times that of any other). As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Parliament constituency was entitled the following seats: In smaller constituencies, the use of the electoral method resulted in an effective threshold based on the district magnitude and
3363-419: The right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll. The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by
3422-592: Was a third election which was feared by the caretaker committee as opinion polls were predicting a PP landslide and that the PSOE would be overtaken by Podemos. Ultimately, only 15 PSOE MPs broke party discipline and voted against Rajoy. Díaz submitted her bid for the 2017 PSOE leadership election , along with Pedro Sánchez and Patxi López . Three former party leaders, Felipe González , José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba , as well as several former PSOE ministers and regional leaders backed her. Sánchez successfully returned to PSOE's leadership with
3481-456: Was unable to get a favorable vote in either of the three votings that took place in 5, 8 and 14 May, as all four PP, Podemos, C's and IU voted against her election. Further, negotiations between Díaz's PSOE and the opposition parties broke off when, on 13 May—the eve of the third investiture vote—it was unveiled that the Andalusian government had awarded the exploitation of the Aznalcóllar mine to
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