Fox’s negotiator reveals that the PP still has no candidate to succeed Mazzone a week after his resignation

Little progress has been made at the present time in the first contacts that took place between Fox and the People’s Party to reach an agreement that allows the far-right party to vote to choose a popular representative to succeed Carlos Mazzone after announcing his resignation to run Aldana.

This Sunday was revealed by the Secretary General of the Vox Party, Ignacio Garriga, one of the people appointed by the party leader, Santiago Abascal, to negotiate the agreement, along with the National Government’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, Montserrat Luís.

After the first phone call between the President of the People’s Party, Alberto Nuñez Viejo, and Abascal on Tuesday, November 4, only one meeting between the two parties has emerged, elDiario.es reported, which took place on Friday in Valencia.

Although various sources and media talk about a close agreement in the absence of defining procedures regarding unaccompanied migrant minors that the Vox Party wants to deport, the truth is that Garriga confirmed that the People’s Party has not yet informed them of who its candidate to succeed Mazzone is, an aspect they consider essential to move the talks forward. However, in politics more often than not, what is said publicly has little to do with what is actually happening behind the scenes, and in this sense both parties want to be discreet.

Garriga stressed that his party does not want to participate in a “media circus” and, therefore, will negotiate “discreetly” with the People’s Party in the Valencian region, after Carlos Mazón submitted his resignation as president of this autonomous region.

Speaking to journalists before the “Our Neighbors First” event organized by this group in Mataro (Barcelona), Garriga asked the PP to choose who will be its candidate to replace Mazzone so that Fox can talk to him about “political strategies that will allow progress in Valencia’s recovery.”

He said he understood the “concern” and “media interest” in the issue, but added that Fox would be guided by the principle of “prudence” and not “media pressure.”