The interim president of the regional government of Extremadura and candidate for re-election of the PP, María Guardiola, reported that Last Tuesday, he contacted the Vox candidateÓscar Fernández, facing the nomination.
“He … The tone was cordial and the message very clear. Think only about Extremadura and try to reach an agreement that allows our region to have the stability it needs to continue growing,” he assured in statements to the media. after attending a meeting of the PP Extremadura Steering Committee.
During this conversation, in which they congratulated each other on the results obtained in the December 21 elections, They started to keep talking. Likewise, he assured that Fernández “under no circumstances” let him know that Vox wanted occupy the presidency of the Assembly of Extremadura.
In this way, Guardiola considered that what needed to be talked about “is not about positions”, but about the “stability that Extremadura needs” and the “four years of legislature” “to come”. “We will have to sit down to see what policies we are going to implement to promote the growth of Extremadura and the well-being of the people of Extremadura. I believe we need to talk about a big agreement where the issues that Extremadura needs to continue moving forward will be put on the table,” he assured.
Also, and regarding the proposals of Vox, a party which has repeatedly referred to the document of 200 measures that it proposed during the budget negotiation, Guardiola pointed out that some of them “They were unaffordable because they were against the law.”
For this reason, he announced that his team was working on said document to be put on the table. Which issues could lead to agreement and which could not?. “Which ones should be modulated and in what direction,” he clarified. “We are already working on this document because we do not have more information, they have absolutely not asked for anything different from these 200 measures, and that is what I heard Mr. Fernández say publicly,” he assured.
Concerning trading deadlinesMaría Guardiola stressed that they are marked by the deadlines set. Thus, it was announced that this Saturday the decree convening the Council of Assembly would be published, which will take place on January 20. “This will be the first and from there, there is a month left for the inauguration. I believe that Extremadura cannot stop, it cannot wait and the sooner we have a budget, the sooner we can give it that revolution that Extremadura needs to continue growing,” he said.
Also, and about the CERA vote, which did not ultimately give seat 30 to the PPadmitted to the ‘popular’ that his party would be around 300 votes away from reaching this figure, even if, with this, the parliamentary situation “would have changed absolutely nothing”.
Likewise, Guardiola confessed that he is an “absolutely autonomous” person and that he only thinks “of Extremadura”. “I always have been, and if I wasn’t, I wouldn’t be here, I only think about Extremadura, and the only issues that will be put on the table are those that affect our region,” he stressed.
It is for this reason that he stressed that he hopes that the Vox candidate, Óscar Fernández, “having the same autonomy” as her and that both can negotiate “without having to wait for authorizations from Madrid”, because this “complicates and slows things down a lot”.
Guardiola made these statements on the occasion of the meeting of the Steering Committee of the PP of Extremadura, during which the electoral results have been analyzed and they have marked “a little” what will be the next steps to take as a party.
“No one should relax, it is Christmas but we continue to work, Extremadura cannot stop and this is the message we have conveyed in the Steering Committee,” he concluded.
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