Vox does not want to show its cards after being the party that progressed the most in the elections to the Assembly of Extremadura this Sunday, where it went from five to 11 seats, and having in its hands the continuity of the popular María Guardiola at the head of the autonomous community. During a brief press conference at his party’s headquarters in Madrid, Santiago Abascal left all possibilities open – from being part of a coalition executive to reaching an investiture or a budgetary pact – and stressed that “the ball is in Ms. Guardiola’s court and I don’t know if it is in Mr. (Alberto Núñez) Feijóo’s court.”
The leader of Vox has set only one red line: that the votes of his party are not respected or are made invisible or betrayed, as he had already warned on Sunday. “We are not closed to any possibility. The only thing is that the currency stolen and betrayed by Ms. Guardiola will not happen. If Vox counts in one of the formulas, it will be for a big change in Extremadura”,
Abascal indicated that he does not want to “advance events” and that “it is the PP that must decide whether it reaches an agreement with the socialists, whether it obtains their abstention, whether it reaches an agreement with Podemos and Ms. Guardiola continues with her extreme feminist Irene Montero style or whether it decides to reach an agreement with Vox.” “In this case we are open to many possibilities,” Abascal said during a press conference in which he assessed the results of the elections in Extremadura, where they won more than 40,000 votes and managed to increase from five to 11 seats. The ultra party is the formation that is experiencing the strongest growth in the Extremadura elections compared to the 2023 results. “In this campaign we have seen the PP too close to the PSOE and what we have seen is a dirty war against permanent Vox from Ferraz and Genoa”, said Abascal, who considers that there has been “a spread of hoaxes originating in Genoa and which have responded in the media terminals of Ferraz and vice versa,” declared the ultra leader.
“Extremadura has spoken loud and clear: it wants more Vox, twice as much Vox. And it will have it,” proclaimed the far-right party’s candidate for Council President, Óscar Fernández Calle. It is not yet known what Vox’s conditions will be to support the inauguration of the PP candidate, María Guardiola, who improved her result by one seat, but she is four seats short of reaching the absolute majority, so she needs the votes of the ultra party to continue leading the Junta of Extremadura. In a telematic intervention on Sunday evening, Santiago Abascal celebrated the results obtained and predicted that he would demand “respect from Vox voters”: “Vox votes must count. Vox voters will neither be made invisible nor betrayed,” he warned.
All election results in Extremadura
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