Eight Adelante Andalucía deputies and five Por Andalucía deputies will be absent from the plenary on the 2027 budget amendments, backing the general strike set for 11 November.
The PSOE asked the Mesa to move the budget debate, but the Mesa, where PP and Vox hold an absolute majority, did not grant it. The party's 28 deputies are due to attend that day.
Because deputies are not employees, they have no formal right to strike, so García announced that their pay for the day will go to tenants' unions and the Movimiento de Vivienda en Andalucía.
The strike is two days before the start of the campaign, with elections referred to as 29-N on 29 November.
Adelante Andalucía, whose spokesman is José Ignacio García, confirmed on Wednesday, 21 October, that its eight deputies will not attend the Andalusian Parliament plenary on 11 November. The five deputies of Por Andalucía will also stay away. Both groups are backing the general strike called for that day across Spain by CCOO, UGT and the Sindicato de Inquilinas (tenants' union) over housing. The plenary will debate the amendments to the regional budget for 2027, and neither group will ask for the session to be moved.
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The 2027 budget is the first drawn up jointly by the PP and Vox government in Andalusia. The PSOE, the main opposition group, asked the Mesa of the chamber to move the debate to another day. The Mesa, where PP and Vox hold an absolute majority, did not grant the request. María Márquez, the PSOE's deputy spokesperson, said in writing that the date should change for the sake of the chamber's staff, and she avoided saying whether the party's 28 deputies would skip the plenary. The PSOE's regional leader, María Jesús Montero, has described the strike as being called against the opposition for bringing down the government's housing decree laws.
Adelante's deputies are not employees, so they have no formal right to strike and would keep their pay for that day. García called this a flaw in the chamber's rules and said that deputies nonetheless have the right 'in an ethical sense'. To avoid what he described as a contradiction, García announced that the deputies will donate their pay for the day to tenants' unions and the Movimiento de Vivienda en Andalucía. He framed the decision as a sign of support for the strike in strong terms.
“We think this is fundamental, and that this is the moment when Andalusia's working class has to bang the table and say: enough is enough.”
García asked party members to back the strike and to take part in the strike's unitary committees. He argued that housing should not be treated as a product for speculation.
“Housing cannot be a market good, something to speculate with. It has to be outside the market, a fundamental right.”
Antonio Maíllo, leader of Por Andalucía, said his deputies will join the strike to defend rights that people do not yet have and rights they already hold. According to Maíllo, his deputies will be absent on 11 November but will attend the plenary on 12 November. Elections are set for 29 November, and the strike falls two days before the start of the campaign.
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The eight Adelante Andalucía deputies and five Por Andalucía deputies will be absent from the 11 November plenary on the 2027 budget amendments. The PSOE asked for the debate to be moved, but the Mesa did not agree.
AI text based on reports by ABC TU DIARIO EN ESPAÑOL, EL PAÍS, eldiario.es and other publishers. Published .