The first call is here. María Guardiola contacted the last five afternoons with the candidate and leader of Vox in Extremadura, Óscar Fernández. The president of the extreme PP and candidate for re-election announced it to her colleagues on the steering committee of the Extremadura PP. According to popular sources, the phone call with the ultra lineup was “brief” and was immediately broadcast.
This first contact was made this month and just one day before the publication of the decree requesting the constitution of the new Assembly of Extremadura on January 20. From this closing, the clock will begin and there will be one month to negotiate the nomination. “It was just a brief conversation to continue talking more quickly,” explain Vox sources in Extremadura. “Nothing wrong.”
“I am in contact with Señor Fernández for the afternoon,” Guardiola said in a press release with questions after this summer’s board meeting. “It was very clear. Thinking only about Extremadura. We don’t need to talk about things, a bell of stability, four years to continue growing.”
The popular president also said that Vox referred to a document of 200 measures that reflected the ultra formation when the negotiations failed to achieve certain hypotheses in the region. These measures were rejected by Guardiola himself two months ago, when Santiago Abascal’s representatives in the region put this document on the table to negotiate extreme public accounts by 2026. However, according to Vox sources, nothing has been negotiated on this point.
“What we are doing,” Guardiola continued, “is working on this document to see which issues can be addressed and reached an agreement and which tend to be modular. We do not have more information. We have absolutely not asked for anything different from these measures, that is what I heard from Mr. Fernández (…) We do not need to talk about it. We need to sit down to see what policies we are going to put in place.”
Among the measures proposed by Vox in this document of 200 measures are the elimination of the register of health professionals opposed to abortion (as provided for by law); the removal of subsidies to international cooperation, gender ideology, unions and employers; the exemption from the LGTBI law and eliminating ecotasa, among others.
Questioned by herself, the president of Extremeeña is autonomous or will decide the party at the national level in the negotiations, she contested that she is free and that she will act as such. “I am alone in Extremadura. The only questions are those that affect our region. I hope that Mr Fernández will do the same. Negotiations if carried out from Madrid are very complicated.”
Voting abroad
The vote abroad – that of extremeños who reside permanently outside Spain and which is due to the name registered in the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) – was also counted this year in Cáceres and Badajoz. Of the 860,375 extremists who were eligible to vote on December 21, 30,610 resided abroad, 1,800 more than in previous elections.
However, participation was rare, as in recent years. In Badajoz, 913 votes were counted out of the 12,769 voters residing abroad. 312 were for the PSOE, 203 for the PP, 176 for Vox and 157 for Unidas por Extremadura.
In the case of Cáceres, where the difference was 244 votes between the PSOE and the PP and where it could have fallen on the side of the 30 popular and elected representatives and left one for the socialists (from eight to seven) to come out with a result of 17 votes, there was also no change. Everything remains the same. Indeed, the Socialists received the most votes with 317 votes; followed by PP, con 279; Vox, with 170, and Unidas por Extremadura, with 143.
“The vote abroad does not vary much,” say PP sources, who have ruled out any movement in the table, despite the rumors of recent days. “I’m never ours,” he adds.
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