Every cloud has a silver lining. Fernando López Miras has not managed to be re-elected president of Murcia, despite being two seats away from the absolute majority, given the vote against Vox, which continues to demand to enter the Government to at least abstain, with which this Monday the candidate popular would have gotten the investiture.
But this negative vote by Vox has allowed the PP to have a new argument to ask for the useful vote, to ask the citizens that those who want Sánchez not to govern and that the PP govern, -which is, in the polls, the preferred candidate of the Vox voters-, that they vote directly for Alberto Núñez Feijóo, because a vote for those of Abascal does not guarantee that change that Vox voters are asking for.
Fernando López Miras did not obtain the necessary simple majority on Monday in the second vote, after not having obtained an absolute majority last Friday. López Miras obtained 21 of the 45 seats that make up the Murcia Assembly, which places the absolute majority at 23 seats. The PSOE obtained 13 deputies. Vox 9 and Podemos 1. The PP would only need the abstention of Vox for López Miras to be sworn in as president, since López Miras has more seats than the entire left combined, but Vox demands entry into the regional government, with a vice presidency and three ministries, to facilitate the investiture of the PP candidate. After not being invested, Murcia has two months to elect a president, and if not, the elections will have to be repeated.
This fact has been good for the PP on the eve of the general elections. It gives wings to Feijóo’s speech, against Sánchez’s, which underlines that the agreement between the PP and Vox is not secure, and that whoever wants there to be a replacement in La Moncloa can only vote for the PP, which guarantees that Feijóo will replace Pedro Sanchez.
For the PP, that VOX and PSOE “agree to jointly block the investiture of Fernando López Miras” shows that both parties agree on their interest in weakening the PP, in an autonomous community in which the PP obtained 43% of the votes, very close to an absolute majority.
Sources from the national leadership of the PP underline that “the ‘no’ of the PSOE sought to force the PP to give Vox entry into the Government and then feignly tear their clothes with our policy of pacts”, but they have met with ” no” from Vox “which is based on the search for positions in the regional Executive, ignoring the political priorities that we offered to assess with them” In the opinion of the PP, the two, PP and Vox, “protect their electoral interest by unprotecting the of the citizen”.
Faced with the possibility of a repeat of the elections, the same sources stress that “the PP is not afraid of the polls” but considers that it would be “bad news to submit Murcia to a new electoral process.” For this reason, the PP asks the Spaniards to “protect Spain from instability and uncertainty” on 23J, because “the only possibility for our country to have a strong government is to concentrate the vote on Alberto Núñez Feijóo” since ” now it is clear to us that any vote that does not go to the PP will go to sanchismo and instability”.
For this reason, the national leadership of the PP appeals, on the one hand, to the vote of “those who do not want to give more power to minorities than they are capable of obtaining in the elections”, and on the other, they appeal to the vote “of those who They do not want Pedro Sánchez and his partners to continue governing in Spain and want to bet on an option that is a direct guarantee of change”.
The message of the PP is that they are “the most competitive option to stop the block policy, and we are proud to represent an option that is located between Vox and sanchismo” and that the PP is “the option of those who do not want even one nor the other”, since “nobody understands, not even its voters, that Vox plays Pedro Sánchez’s game by voting together with the PSOE and Podemos against the PP, and in the middle of the national electoral campaign. Vox now activates the countdown to an electoral repetition”.
The national leadership of the PP assures that “we have tried until the last moment to reach a programmatic agreement with Vox but, unfortunately, this party has not wanted to negotiate anything. It has only been interested in talking about armchairs and not about the program.” Remember that the Pp put on the table “a programmatic pact with 88 beneficial measures for citizens” and “None have even been valued by Vox.”
