In April 2019, four months after taking office as president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno took a photo at the gate of the Seville Fair with the hostesses of a manzanilla brand. The women – and men – around him wondered who this man was and were surprised when they were told that he was the new head of the regional government. Eight years later, Moreno himself admits that there are now women who approach him “with interest”. It’s his convenient way of boasting about the existence of the eroticism of power, as he acknowledged in an interview with The Spanishin the section The Magician, aimed at the female audience and which, in the middle of a storm due to the underlying machismo in the cases of harassment occurring both in the PSOE and in the PP, unleashed criticism on social networks.
“The eroticism of power exists, we’re not going to deny it, that would be a lie. When you have a prominent position where you’re in the spotlight… you’re a more interesting person. A priori, a person who leads an autonomous community and you see her in a speech, in a conference or in a book… she seems more interesting to you and this makes people, in this case women, approach her with interest. This does not mean that these are spurious interests,” affirms the Andalusian president, who then admits that his wife, Manuela Villena, sometimes “had difficulty” managing this type of attraction. “Sometimes, something bothered her. We were walking one day on the beach in Tarifa, I will never forget, and then two girls passed by, young people too… And I was walking with a dog that I had… and the girls: ‘Juanma, you are Juanma’, that’s it, bombún. “Can we take a photo?” And I present to you: ‘This is my wife.’ And they take the typical photo facing each other… my wife in front, looking surprised. “What a shame,” he said.
One of the first to react to the interview was the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente. “Let everyone draw the necessary conclusions in the midst of the debate on machismo in this country,” she wrote in her press release.
In the interview, the popular leader also alluded to the crisis due to the failures of the breast cancer prevention program, to affirm that it was “uncomfortable” to have women as enemies and to emphasize that “the information was manipulated”. The patients of Amama, this same Monday, demanded that the Council know the truth about the number of people affected by delays in mammograms who developed breast cancer and criticized the “lack of empathy” of the Andalusian president for having assured from Barcelona last Friday that “fortunately, 99% do not have tumor lesions”. They claim that there are more cases, they have quantified 301, in addition to the 2,317 affected people limited by the regional government.
“Sánchez was very handsome, but I also defended myself”
Shortly before noon, The Spanish The title of the interview changed, emphasizing precisely his recognition of the existence of the eroticism of power to replace it with a reference to the president of the government, with whom Moreno coincided at the beginning of their respective political careers during rallies. “Already when he was young, Sánchez had ambition. He was very handsome, but I also defended myself. Now he is sullen and dark, he does not tell the truth”, summarizes the newspaper on the references to the leader of the PSOE. And, in the “informal interview,” according to the text, Moreno makes some references to how he sees himself in physical terms. “It goes without saying that I’m not handsome, I look at myself in the mirror and that’s enough,” he says, ironically asserting that “it’s more important to be attractive than handsome.”
In the interview, Moreno acknowledges the dichotomy his position leads to: public exposure and the need to maintain discretion and family stability, even as he lets slip that he seduced his wife, whom he describes as “brilliant” thanks to the “secret skills she possesses.” He also highlighted the influence of his mother, from whom he inherited “determination and perseverance” and whose influence caused him to grow up “in a matriarchy”.
In the professional field, Moreno also indicated that he works “much better with women than with men”, a statement which, he warns in the interview, will “bring him problems”. The President of the Council first explains that he prefers to work with them because “the level of commitment, sacrifice and loyalty of women is greater than that of a man”. . “I have been betrayed less by women than by men,” he said.
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