Both parties know that the negotiations will be complicated. They also need to rebuild the bridges, even if only minimally. Find fluid dialogue and lower the swords, which are always raised. Tension remains very high between the management of Vox and the … PP of Extremadura. This is inevitable after an aggressive electoral campaign during which there were account. From the evening of the elections, the first impulse of this new stage emerged. Vox did not even congratulate the PP after winning the elections with 43% of the vote. Santiago Abascal was considered the winner of the day thanks to a spectacular result that reached almost 17% of support. Nobody expected it. Maria Guardiola He responded by asking his right-wing rival party for “a calm reading of the polls”. He also joked that he didn’t know who to call to negotiate his inauguration: Abascal himself or the regional candidate, Óscar Fernández, assuming that has little or nothing to say.
But he hasn’t picked up the phone yet. Despite mutual attacks, some things are moving. Abascal avoided setting red lines as such, leaving this first approach in the hands of Guardiola, but without talking about specific conditions. He no longer uttered this phrase which so embarrassed the President of the Council during the electoral campaign: “He will have to overcome obstacles”. Even though Vox has shown no sign of wanting to reintegrate the autonomous governments, the leader of the PP He didn’t want to exclude her either. complete.
Furthermore, what the right party suggests is that with the elections in Extremadura, the cards have been redistributed. In the last hours Guardiola – he did it in an interview with Cope – I hadn’t planned a veto be part of its regional executive. It is true that the President of Extremadura prefers to govern alone and that whenever she can, she remembers that Vox “ran away” in just over a year. But she didn’t want to be the one to say no. “If this is your wish,” he warned, “there will have to be a commitment to seriousness, management and work.”
As the first call comes in and they attempt to reorient a relationship that, in reality, has never been good, the first national voices speaking out are pushing toward an agreement. At least, to what the thaw is starting now. Alberto Núñez Feijóo opened the way on Monday before the national executive council of the PP, when he asked Vox “never to make the wrong opponent again”, recognizing the result of his rival and, above all, assuming that 60% of the votes on the right in a community like Extremadura do not allow “capricious readings”. It was a way of saying that an agreement was needed.
Just yesterday, the spokesperson in Congress, Ester Munozwas even clearer. “Voters said they wanted a right-wing government led by María Guardiola. I think it’s obvious and what “We will have to agree”. The Leonese leader, at the head of the parliamentary spokesperson, has always defended the agreement with Abascal’s party, fleeing the complexes and doubts expressed by other colleagues. Just yesterday he made it clear that he was “in no way afraid” of this agreement in Extremadura and those to come, recalling that this coalition already existed, even if it was short, and that now the citizens have once again rewarded it by voting in the majority for the PP and Vox.
In management they talk about the “coming tsunami” and assume that we must understand Abascal
Another issue that national leaders are trying to clarify is that they do not appreciate the possible abstention of the PSOE after the collapse signed by Miguel Ángel Gallardo. This is an issue that has already been resolved in Moncloa, which clearly shows that it is not even on the table. But the PP is also not interested in this scenario being mentioned. First, because Feijóo and his leaders closed the door to socialists. But the rest of the barons who face their electoral nominations in the coming months would also struggle to explain a deal of this nature in Extremadura.
In Genoa they are convinced that the scenario experienced in the community of Extremadura will be repeated in Aragon, Castile and León and Andalusia. National sources even speak of “a tsunami that will not be able to stop”assuming this right of the electorate continues to spread across the country. What has put the regional presidents on notice, as ABC published, is precisely the rise of Vox in Extremadura, consolidating itself as a very important political actor. And above all because they think that this growth closes the door to future absolute majorities. This also shows that from now on The deals will have to be with Vox or they won’t be.
No abstention in the PSOE
Ester Muñoz, like other influential leaders in Congress and in the leadership itself, is at the head of the current within the PP that is committed to thinking “as a bloc” in the face of the next elections. Those around them speak ironically of the supposed fear that Abascal has aroused with his campaign: “How will we be overtaken if our bloc wins in the streets, if the PP leads this bloc without a doubt and if the other right-wing force also grows?” “Well, not so bad. The one who should rethink everything is Sánchez, who needs Sumar, Podemos, Puigdemont, ERC, Bildu, PNV and even Ábalos for absolutely everything. At least in our case we are only two parties», they say.
The only element that distorts Madrid’s desire to advance the negotiations between Vox and Guardiola – and above all to succeed – is the impact they could have on the next elections. Aragon is another key community where the popular wants to confirm the socialist debacle, signed this time by the former minister. Pilar Alegria. After Christmas, his electoral campaign will begin and it will be necessary to confirm the first agreement between Popular and Abascal – the Assembly of Extremadura.
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