Talks started. PP and Vox explore replacing Carlos Mazzone to avoid going to elections in the Valencian Community. But the agreement will not be easy, perhaps as quickly as Genoa wants. Sources say that the distance between the two is very wide. … From Santiago Abascal’s entourage, who also highlighted the difficulty of pushing through a deal for Valencia as they face a tough campaign in Extremadura. “Are we really going to reach an agreement whereby the PP will accept our demands that its Extremaduran candidate will later deny throughout the election campaign?” They ask. “Would this really be possible, all at once?” They repeat. The problem between PP and Vox is the lack of trust that exists between the two parties. The open conflict on the national right at this moment is more than clear, with Abascal’s party in full swing in all opinion polls, the popularity that is trying to block this progress, and ahead of it are many regional electoral events in which the two parties will confront each other without hesitation.
Fox appointed Ignacio Garriga, Secretary-General, as negotiator. And also to Montse Lewis, the second-in-command in the organization, and the person Abascal trusts completely. It was Alberto Nunez Viejo The person who picked up the phone to start negotiations. He spoke with Abascal and explained that his party wants to end the crisis as quickly as possible. It also showed what the entire party knew: that they were now in the hands of the Vox Party to avoid elections in this community.
The leadership of the Popular Party does not want to consider the possibility of imposing a blockade. They realize that Vox will have a hard time explaining why it is blocking an agreement on a new “president” with budgets approved and put into effect. At Vox, the perception is different. Abascal’s party has made that clear “Who is not afraid” to go to electionsBecause all surveys guarantee growth. Moreover, the prevailing perception in Bamboo – the party’s national headquarters – is that the right will add nothing more, except with a stronger Vox and a weaker People’s Party. But on the other hand, there are leaders who believe that this would also be a victory for the left demanding these elections, and that in addition, it would deepen the division and mistrust that already exists between right-wing parties.
In the Abascal Party, they attended the first steps of the PP in bewilderment: they do not understand that they did not put the candidate directly on the table – although the ABC has already published that the PP is only looking at Juanfran Pérez Jurca – and they express “concern” about the differences that appear between Genoa and the Valencian People’s Party. “The feeling is that we never know who is in charge and whether we have guarantees that they will stick to what has been agreed,” they told this newspaper.
Fear among some PP leaders in case Vox exaggerates negotiations and ends up forcing elections
Fox also criticized the PP for its stance with Carlos Mazón, accusing Figo of contributing to political lynching, to the point that Abascal was one of the leaders. Who defended the already existing “president”. However, it is uncomfortable in Abascal’s party that signing a new inauguration charter would also mean supporting the situation in which Mazzone will remain: with his seat in Les Cortes continuing to have capacity. “It is an internal crisis of the People’s Party that we ended up getting involved in as well,” they lamented.
What Abascal’s party has already made clear is that what is taking place now is a difficult negotiation, in which they will demand new concessions on their two great political banners: immigration and ending green policies. “The program is the only thing that matters to us,” they explain, positing that if there is a new “president,” he “will have to express all these commitments in his inaugural address.” This means that they at Fox understand that replacing the regional presidency “changes everything,” and that it will not be enough to “give continuity” to what was agreed with Mazzone, but that the cards must be clear on the table again.
The Valencia Agreement appears at a time of peak tension between the two parties and at the height of Abascal’s rise
Doubts about the agreement
There are national leaders and also within the Valencian People’s Party who have expressed optimism that there will be an agreement. But there are several other popular officials who expressed “serious doubts” and “a lot of fear” that Vox will fake negotiations that end in an election call. Their argument – and there is broad agreement on this across the party – is that it is difficult to negotiate something as sensitive as the inauguration when both parties face election campaigns with so much at stake. Above all, there are the Valencian leaders who offer the following reasoning: «What incentives does Vox have to reach an agreement soon?? They are higher in the polls than the rest and have to go campaigning in Extremadura where the clash with the PP will be brutal. Then will come Castile and Leon. And all this is agreed upon in the Valencian Community? They assume they will make it too difficult for us.
And the fact that it all starts in Extremadura is not a trivial matter: the harmony with Maria Guardiola is absolutely zero. It remains to be seen what will happen in Aragon and what decision Jorge Azcun will ultimately make. Major political conflict is also expected in Castile, Leon and Andalusia. In the first autonomy, relations deteriorated significantly; In the second election, Juanma Moreno needs an absolute majority.
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