2015 Andalusian regional 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 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.{{cite act |title=Ley Orgánica 2/2007, de 19 de marzo, de reforma del Estatuto de Autonomía para Andalucía |type=Organic Law |number=2 |language=es |date=19 March 2007 |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2007-5825&tn=1&p=20110411 |access-date=16 September 2017 }} {{Cite web |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2007-5825&tn=1&p=20110411 |title=BOE.es - Documento consolidado BOE-A-2007-5825 |access-date=22 February 2017 |archive-date=23 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223050601/https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2007-5825&tn=1&p=20110411 |url-status=bot: unknown }} 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, a system known as "begged" or expat vote ({{langx|es|Voto rogado}}).{{cite web |last=Reig Pellicer |first=Naiara |date=16 December 2015 |url=http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/politics/article/spanish-elections-begging-for-the-right-to-vote.html |title=Spanish elections: Begging for the right to vote |website=cafebabel.co.uk |access-date=17 July 2017 |archive-date=31 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831202218/https://cafebabel.com/en/article/spanish-elections-begging-for-the-right-to-vote-5ae00a98f723b35a145e6867/ |url-status=live }}

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 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).{{cite act |title=Ley 1/1986, de 2 de enero, Electoral de Andalucía |type=Law |number=1 |language=es |date=2 January 1986 |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1986-2788&tn=1&p=20141028 |access-date=16 September 2017 }} {{Cite web |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1986-2788&tn=1&p=20141028 |title=BOE.es - Documento consolidado BOE-A-1986-2788 |access-date=22 February 2017 |archive-date=23 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223050628/https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1986-2788&tn=1&p=20141028 |url-status=bot: unknown }}

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 the distribution of votes among candidacies.{{cite web |last=Gallagher |first=Michael |date=30 July 2012 |url=http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/staff/michael_gallagher/ElSystems/Docts/effthresh.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730092518/http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/staff/michael_gallagher/ElSystems/Docts/effthresh.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 July 2017 |title=Effective threshold in electoral systems |publisher=Trinity College, Dublin |access-date=22 July 2017}}

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 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 the Parliament on Sunday, 24 April 2016.{{cite act |title=Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General |type=Organic Law |number=5 |language=es |date=19 June 1985 |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1985-11672&tn=1&p=20150331 |access-date=28 December 2016 }} {{Cite web |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1985-11672&tn=1&p=20150331 |title=BOE.es - Documento consolidado BOE-A-1985-11672 |access-date=16 September 2017 |archive-date=8 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808194357/https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1985-11672&tn=1&p=20150331 |url-status=bot: unknown }}

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, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.{{cite act |title=Government of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia Law of 2006 |type=Law |number=6 |language=es |date=24 October 2006 |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2006-20848&tn=1&p=20140630 |access-date=17 September 2017 }} {{Cite web |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2006-20848&tn=1&p=20140630 |title=BOE.es - Documento consolidado BOE-A-2006-20848 |access-date=17 September 2017 |archive-date=17 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917213707/https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2006-20848&tn=1&p=20140630 |url-status=bot: unknown }}

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 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 a plot. Griñán was succeeded by Susana Díaz at the helm of the regional government.{{cite news |date=23 July 2013 |url=http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2013/07/23/andalucia/1374604196_857343.html |title=Griñán precipita su retirada de la Junta y su relevo con Susana Díaz |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=20 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120185651/http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2013/07/23/andalucia/1374604196_857343.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=27 August 2013 |url=http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2013/08/27/actualidad/1377589476_889093.html |title=Griñán: "Quiero preservar a la Junta de la erosión por el caso de los ERE" |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=15 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315035826/http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2013/08/27/actualidad/1377589476_889093.html |url-status=live }}

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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 the president's consent resulted in the counsellor seeing her competences removed and in the coalition pact nearly breaking up.{{cite news |date=9 April 2014 |url=http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2014/04/09/andalucia/1397045771_201500.html |title=Susana Díaz retira las competencias de vivienda a IU por un plan para okupas |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=20 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120185655/http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2014/04/09/andalucia/1397045771_201500.html |url-status=live }} 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.{{cite news |date=21 December 2014 |url=http://www.abc.es/espana/20141221/abci-izquierda-unida-referendum-andalucia-201412211619.html |title=IU plantea un referéndum para junio sobre su permanencia en el Gobierno andaluz |language=es |newspaper=ABC |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=28 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428022824/https://www.abc.es/espana/20141221/abci-izquierda-unida-referendum-andalucia-201412211619.html |url-status=live }} In response, Susana Díaz declared that "we need a government which enjoys a stability that currently does not exist", opening the door for a snap election to be held within a short time.{{cite news |date=19 January 2015 |url=http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2015/01/19/andalucia/1421672559_205627.html |title=La tensión entre PSOE e IU abona el adelanto electoral en Andalucía |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=20 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120114047/http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2015/01/19/andalucia/1421672559_205627.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=19 January 2015 |url=http://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/01/19/54bd0c6022601d24268b4574.html |title=Díaz abre la puerta al adelanto electoral: 'No hay estabilidad' |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=3 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203124505/https://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/01/19/54bd0c6022601d24268b4574.html |url-status=live }} 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;{{cite news |date=20 January 2015 |url=http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20150120/diaz-llama-recapacitar-valderas-ve-razones-para-adelanto-electoral-andalucia/1084123.shtml |title=Díaz recibe el apoyo del PSOE andaluz ante un posible adelanto electoral, que IU rechaza |language=es |publisher=RTVE |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=8 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408011655/http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20150120/diaz-llama-recapacitar-valderas-ve-razones-para-adelanto-electoral-andalucia/1084123.shtml |url-status=live }} subsequently, mutual attacks between both PSOE and IU, accusing each other of breaching the coalition agreement, made it clear that the only solution to the ongoing governmental crisis would come by the calling of a snap election.{{cite news |date=20 January 2015 |url=http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/01/20/actualidad/1421753108_706444.html |title=El PSOE da por hecho el adelanto a marzo de las elecciones en Andalucía |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224719/http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/01/20/actualidad/1421753108_706444.html |url-status=live }}

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.{{cite news |date=22 January 2015 |url=https://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/01/22/54c0dadfca4741df788b4576.html |title=El Parlamento fija un pleno el lunes ante el eventual adelanto electoral |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=3 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203124456/https://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/01/22/54c0dadfca4741df788b4576.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=22 January 2015 |url=https://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/politica-eD/noticias/6412127/01/15/-Susana-Diaz-Hare-lo-que-sea-bueno-para-Andalucia-y-se-que-lo-entenderan.html |title=Susana Díaz anuncia un pleno extraordinario para el lunes donde puede hacer oficial el adelanto de las autonómicas |language=es |newspaper=El Economista |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=3 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203124454/https://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/politica-eD/noticias/6412127/01/15/-Susana-Diaz-Hare-lo-que-sea-bueno-para-Andalucia-y-se-que-lo-entenderan.html |url-status=live }} 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 the [people's] confidence in the ballots".{{cite news |date=24 January 2015 |url=http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2015/01/24/andalucia/1422130062_451938.html |title=Susana Díaz zanja el debate sobre su candidatura a las primarias del PSOE |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=27 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150127193710/http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2015/01/24/andalucia/1422130062_451938.html |url-status=live }} 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—,{{cite news |date=21 January 2015 |url=http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2015/01/21/54bebc07ca4741940d8b4580.html |title=El PSOE sólo quiere ya a Susana Díaz como candidata |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803211329/https://www.elmundo.es/espana/2015/01/21/54bebc07ca4741940d8b4580.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=26 January 2015 |url=http://sevilla.abc.es/andalucia/20150126/sevi-perfil-susana-presidenta-201501261331.html |title=Susana Díaz, una presidenta andaluza que mira a Madrid |language=es |newspaper=ABC |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=27 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127110518/https://sevilla.abc.es/andalucia/20150126/sevi-perfil-susana-presidenta-201501261331.html |url-status=live }} 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 a time when opinion polls were still favorable to the PSOE in Andalusia.{{cite news |date=20 January 2015 |url=http://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/andalucia/2015-01-20/susana-diaz-abona-el-adelanto-electoral-y-sera-la-primera-en-enfrentarse-a-podemos_625127/ |title=Susana Díaz abona el adelanto electoral y será la primera en enfrentarse a Podemos |language=es |newspaper=El Confidencial |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=26 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150126171945/http://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/andalucia/2015-01-20/susana-diaz-abona-el-adelanto-electoral-y-sera-la-primera-en-enfrentarse-a-podemos_625127/ |url-status=live }}

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.{{cite news |date=17 February 2015 |url=http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/02/17/actualidad/1424173673_346212.html |title=La imputación de Chaves y Griñán en los ERE calienta la campaña andaluza |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=10 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110234256/http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/02/17/actualidad/1424173673_346212.html |url-status=live }} The PSOE insisted on the same day that it would not require Chaves and Griñán to give up their seats in 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.{{cite journal |journal=Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía |issue=17 |date=27 January 2015 |pages=11–12 |issn=2253-802X |title=Decreto de la Presidenta 1/2015, de 26 de enero, de disolución del Parlamento de Andalucía y de convocatoria de elecciones |url=https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/boja/2015/17/BOJA15-017-00002-1360-01_00062638.pdf |language=es |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=20 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320124648/http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/boja/2015/17/BOJA15-017-00002-1360-01_00062638.pdf |url-status=live }} The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of dissolution.{{cite web |url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/aandalucia.html |title=Elecciones al Parlamento de Andalucía (1982 - 2018) |language=es |website=Historia Electoral.com |access-date=25 September 2017 |archive-date=20 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220192906/http://www.historiaelectoral.com/aandalucia.html |url-status=live }}

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 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:

;Opinion polls

The tables below list opinion polling results in reverse chronological order, showing 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 the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll.

{{wide image|OpinionPollingAndalusiaRegionalElection2015.svg|750px|Local regression trend line of poll results from 25 March 2012 to 22 March 2015, with each line corresponding to a political party.}}

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 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.

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The table below shows registered vote turnout on election day without including voters from the Census of Absent-Residents (CERA).

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The result of 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 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 the Parliament of Andalusia.

The post-election scenario, however, turned more difficult than what was originally expected.{{cite news |date=26 March 2015 |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/pr/local/sevilla/20150326/54428462143/oposicion-bloquear-investidura-diaz.html |title=La oposición amenaza con bloquear la investidura de Díaz hasta el final |language=es |newspaper=La Vanguardia |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=3 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203132249/https://www.lavanguardia.com/pr/local/sevilla/20150326/54428462143/oposicion-bloquear-investidura-diaz.html |url-status=live }} 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.{{cite news |date=26 March 2015 |url=http://sevilla.abc.es/elecciones/andalucia/20150326/sevi-izquierda-unida-investidura-201503261910.html |title=Izquierda Unida niega su voto a Susana Díaz porque "carece de credibilidad" |language=es |newspaper=ABC |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=14 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914162354/http://sevilla.abc.es/elecciones/andalucia/20150326/sevi-izquierda-unida-investidura-201503261910.html |url-status=live }} The PP, initially widely expected to abstain in Susana Díaz's investiture voting in order to allow "a government of the most-voted party", announced instead that it would vote against Díaz's investiture.

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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:

• Podemos offered to support Díaz's investiture only if she forced the resignation of former presidents Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán (which at the time were MPs in the Congress of Deputies and Senate, respectively) because of their responsibility in the ERE scandal; that political parties were turned into subsidiary responsible for ensuring that misused public money was returned; that the Andalusian government cancelled all agreements or accounts with financial institutions running housing evictions, as well as prompting legislation to prevent any future eviction; and finally, the readmission of personnel in education, health, equality and social welfare sectors fired as a result of the spending cuts, with a decrease in the number of party officials and advisers. In the event those conditions were not accepted, Podemos would vote against Díaz.{{cite news |date=26 March 2015 |url=http://www.eldiario.es/andalucia/Podemos-Susana-Diaz-condiciones-investidura_0_370613514.html |title=Podemos presenta a Susana Díaz sus condiciones para permitir su investidura |language=es |newspaper=eldiario.es |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=27 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027031340/http://www.eldiario.es/andalucia/Podemos-Susana-Diaz-condiciones-investidura_0_370613514.html |url-status=live }}
• Citizens (C's) demanded the immediate resignation of Chaves and Griñán before entering any talks with Susana Díaz's party.{{cite news |date=26 March 2015 |url=http://www.eldiario.es/andalucia/Ciudadanos-investidura-Susana-Diaz-ERE_0_370613420.html |title=Ciudadanos mantiene su "no" a la investidura de Susana Díaz si no dimiten los imputados del caso ERE |language=es |newspaper=eldiario.es |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=17 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917054040/http://www.eldiario.es/andalucia/Ciudadanos-investidura-Susana-Diaz-ERE_0_370613420.html |url-status=live }} Party leader Albert Rivera, however, opened the door to allowing Díaz's investiture if that condition was met, but ruled out any possible entry into a future Díaz's government.{{cite news |date=23 March 2015 |url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20150323/54428375269/ciudadanos-ofrece-pacto-susana-diaz-echa-grinan-chavez.html |title=Ciudadanos ofrece un pacto a Susana Díaz si echa a Griñán y Chaves |language=es |newspaper=La Vanguardia |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=7 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907211704/https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20150323/54428375269/ciudadanos-ofrece-pacto-susana-diaz-echa-grinan-chavez.html |url-status=live }}
• The People's Party (PP) offered to easen Susana Díaz's investiture only if the PSOE allowed "the most-voted party" to rule in the local councils after the May local elections,{{cite news |date=26 March 2015 |url=http://www.eldiario.es/andalucia/PP-A-condiciona-investidura-elecciones-municipales_0_370613403.html |title=El PP no se opondrá a la investidura de Díaz si el PSOE permite que gobierne el más votado en las municipales |language=es |newspaper=eldiario.es |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=29 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200529124403/https://www.eldiario.es/andalucia/PP-A-condiciona-investidura-elecciones-municipales_0_370613403.html |url-status=live }} as an attempt to prevent left-wing coalitions from withholding the PP from forming the government of the region's provincial capitals.

Susana Díaz immediately ruled out the PP conditions, requesting party regional leader Juanma Moreno to "act with responsibility, without pretending weird exchanges that the people would not understand".{{cite news |date=27 March 2015 |url=http://www.libertaddigital.com/espana/2015-03-27/susana-diaz-rechaza-la-propuesta-del-pp-de-respetar-la-mayoria-mas-votada-1276544228/ |title=Susana Díaz rechaza la propuesta del PP de respetar la mayoría más votada |language=es |newspaper=Libertad Digital |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=7 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907205801/https://www.libertaddigital.com/espana/2015-03-27/susana-diaz-rechaza-la-propuesta-del-pp-de-respetar-la-mayoria-mas-votada-1276544228/ |url-status=live }} 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]".{{cite news |date=29 March 2015 |url=http://www.granadahoy.com/article/andalucia/1995691/susana/diaz/necesita/la/estabilidad.html |title=Susana Díaz necesita la estabilidad |language=es |newspaper=Granada Hoy |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030559/http://www.granadahoy.com/article/andalucia/1995691/susana/diaz/necesita/la/estabilidad.html |url-status=live }}

Susana Díaz's investiture for a second term as president of Andalusia remained unclear for one month. She explicitly expressed her intention to form a minority cabinet, ruling out a coalition with any other party;{{cite news |date=23 March 2015 |url=http://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/03/23/550fcdfc22601d5f738b456c.html |title=Susana Díaz: 'Voy a gobernar en solitario' |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=7 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907204518/https://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/03/23/550fcdfc22601d5f738b456c.html |url-status=live }} 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.{{cite news |date=25 March 2015 |url=http://sevilla.abc.es/elecciones/andalucia/20150325/sevi-nuevas-elecciones-andalucia-201503251355.html |title=¿Otras elecciones en Andalucía en dos meses? |language=es |newspaper=ABC |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718234532/https://sevilla.abc.es/elecciones/andalucia/20150325/sevi-nuevas-elecciones-andalucia-201503251355.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=26 March 2015 |url=http://www.elconfidencial.com/elecciones-andalucia/2015-03-26/susana-diaz-depende-de-podemos-bajo-amenaza-de-nuevas-elecciones-en-septiembre_735194/ |title=Susana Díaz negocia su investidura bajo la amenaza de nuevas elecciones |language=es |newspaper=El Confidencial |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=7 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907194859/https://www.elconfidencial.com/elecciones-andalucia/2015-03-26/susana-diaz-depende-de-podemos-bajo-amenaza-de-nuevas-elecciones-en-septiembre_735194/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=27 March 2015 |url=http://sevilla.abc.es/elecciones/andalucia/20150327/sevi-investidura-susana-votos-201503262034.html |title=Cuatro opciones para la investidura de Susana Díaz: sí, no, abstención...o irse |language=es |newspaper=ABC |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718205627/https://sevilla.abc.es/elecciones/andalucia/20150327/sevi-investidura-susana-votos-201503262034.html |url-status=live }}

Susana Díaz 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 a governmental-favored firm through illegal means and "without observing the slightest rigor" in February–March 2015, previously and during the regional election campaign.{{cite news |date=13 May 2015 |url=http://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/05/13/55526309268e3e2a378b4576.html |title=La Junta andaluza adjudicó Aznalcóllar burlando la ley |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=2 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002172613/https://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/05/13/55526309268e3e2a378b4576.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=13 May 2015 |url=http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/05/13/actualidad/1431543340_089708.html |title=La adjudicación de Aznalcóllar complica la investidura de Díaz |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=8 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208065823/http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/05/13/actualidad/1431543340_089708.html |url-status=live }} 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,{{cite news |date=13 May 2015 |url=http://www.elconfidencial.com/elecciones-andalucia/2015-05-13/el-escandalo-de-aznalcollar-revienta-las-negociaciones-para-la-investidura-de-diaz_793637/ |title=El escándalo de Aznalcóllar revienta las negociaciones para la investidura de Díaz |language=es |newspaper=El Confidencial |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=29 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229120430/https://www.elconfidencial.com/elecciones-andalucia/2015-05-13/el-escandalo-de-aznalcollar-revienta-las-negociaciones-para-la-investidura-de-diaz_793637/ |url-status=live }} with then-acting president Susana Díaz blaming all four opposition parties of imposing a "political blockade" over Andalusia and threatening them with a new election in the event of her failing to get elected.{{cite news |date=14 May 2015 |url=http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/05/14/actualidad/1431591729_258049.html |title=Susana Díaz: "Si hay que ir a elecciones se irá" |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=7 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207215342/http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/05/14/actualidad/1431591729_258049.html |url-status=live }}

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.{{cite news |date=14 May 2015 |url=http://www.elconfidencial.com/elecciones-andalucia/2015-05-14/juan-manuel-moreno-bonilla-a-la-soberbia-de-susana-diaz-para-que-nos-convoca-si-no-hay-acuerdo_794268/ |title=Bonilla (PP) a la "soberbia" de Susana Díaz: "¿Para qué nos convoca si no hay acuerdo?" |language=es |newspaper=El Confidencial |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=7 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907210341/https://www.elconfidencial.com/elecciones-andalucia/2015-05-14/juan-manuel-moreno-bonilla-a-la-soberbia-de-susana-diaz-para-que-nos-convoca-si-no-hay-acuerdo_794268/ |url-status=live }} Teresa Rodríguez from Podemos also criticised Díaz for not accepting her party's conditions, blaming 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.{{cite news |date=14 May 2015 |url=http://www.diariosur.es/andalucia/201505/14/teresa-rodriguez-asegura-unos-20150514132940.html |title=Teresa Rodríguez asegura que unos nuevos comicios en Andalucía certificarían el fracaso del PSOE |language=es |newspaper=Diario Sur |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014348/http://www.diariosur.es/andalucia/201505/14/teresa-rodriguez-asegura-unos-20150514132940.html |url-status=live }} All opposition parties also reiterated their position that they did not trust Díaz to fulfill any compromise once she did get elected.{{cite news |date=5 May 2015 |url=http://elcorreoweb.es/andalucia/ningun-partido-se-fia-de-susana-diaz-EJ308251 |title=Ningún partido se fía de Susana Díaz |language=es |newspaper=El Correo de Andalucía |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=7 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907211622/https://elcorreoweb.es/andalucia/ningun-partido-se-fia-de-susana-diaz-EJ308251 |url-status=live }}

New investiture votes were initially postponed until after the 24 May Spanish regional and local elections as a result of the electoral campaign centering the political focus.{{cite news |date=13 May 2015 |url=http://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/05/13/55527b9ae2704e08238b4582.html |title=El PSOE rompe con Podemos y aleja la investidura tras el 24-M |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=7 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907201230/https://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/05/13/55527b9ae2704e08238b4582.html |url-status=live }} 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.{{cite news |date=5 June 2015 |url=http://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/06/05/5571d24d46163fb83f8b4594.html |title=Órdago de Susana Díaz: O cierra un acuerdo el martes, o elecciones |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=7 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907193750/https://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/06/05/5571d24d46163fb83f8b4594.html |url-status=live }} In the end, the PSOE and C's reached an agreement, with 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.

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