The Corts Valencianes, an institution created in the 14th century by Jaume I and a paradigm of plural Spain, has had a Vox president since yesterday who does not believe in the autonomous State, who is anti-abortionist, ultra-Catholic, who fully rejects the unity of Catalan and the Valencian, combative against any idea of ??”Països Catalans” and that accumulates statements against the LGTBI collective.
As a result of the pact between the PP and Vox, Llanos Massó, 57 years old, was elected yesterday as the second authority of the Valencian Community in the presence of Santiago Abascal, who attended the meeting to underline that the Valencian pact is the model to follow in the rest of the autonomies and that it is a reference for a possible future agreement of the Spanish government between the PP and Vox.
The election of Llanos Massó responds to the conditions signed in the agreement with the PP and its president Carlos Mazón. The pact handed over the presidency of the Corts, a vice presidency of the Generalitat with competences in Culture to the former bullfighter Vicente Barrera and the ministries of Justice and Agriculture. That agreement left in the hands of the PP the control of the strategic ministries -Education, Health or Social Welfare- and more than 92% of the budget of the Generalitat Valenciana, but it gave entry to Vox, a party that has managed, so far, to offer glimpses of his ability to dominate the Valencian scenery.
Yesterday’s constitution of the Valencian Corts brought a surprise that confirmed the rupture of the Valencian left. A secret pact between Compromís and PP allowed the Valencianistas to occupy a position on the Table of the Corts. The right-wing bench gave Maria Josep Amigó the necessary votes (18) to overcome the PSPV candidate. A tight 32-31 caused the four groups in the chamber to have a representative on the Table: two the PP (vice president and first secretary); one Vox (president); one the PSPV (second vice president) and one Compromís (second secretary). The operation of the PP with Compromís generated deep discomfort in the PSPV. The acting Minister Arcadi Spain regretted that the legislature begins with a pact between Compromís and the PP. “It is clear that the only alternative to PP-Vox is the PSPV,” he said.
While the Corts Valencianes were being formed, the candidate of the PP of Extremadura to preside over the Junta took a turn in the script and where until now everything was critical of Vox, she proclaimed her “respect” for the formation of Abascal and even suggested, in a letter sent to the militancy, possibilities of agreement. In the letter, María Guardiola considers “respect, dialogue and programmatic agreement with the Vox formation essential”.
Quite a change in attitude, although the president of the PP from Extremadura once again limits that possibility of a pact to a “programmatic agreement”, without giving up her demand to keep Santiago Abascal’s party out of her hypothetical government. The programmatic agreement was already in their talks prior to the break, with a 15-point document.
In the letter he no longer speaks of repeating elections, and when he refers to a government he does not at any time propose an agreement alone. A shift from Guardiola that occurred the same day that the resignation of an external adviser, Santiago Martínez-Vares, was announced, who, in a private conversation, can be heard, in a WhatsApp audio that has come to light, criticize Abascal very harshly.
At the bottom of Guardiola’s change in attitude are the internal criticisms in the PP, who reproached him for leaving his colleagues from other communities in a bad place, and above all the way in which he was affecting the national PP and especially Alberto Núñez Feijóo, his confrontation with Vox.
To such an extent that he decided to call off the regional board of directors and the executive committee scheduled for today, because “we do not want our affiliates’ meetings to be used to harm the organization or divert the interest of our country, and avoid any tension.” And it is that he considers that “these days the post-electoral situation in our autonomous community and the PP of Extremadura are being used to try to influence the national campaign, and that pressure is being unfairly transferred to the PP as a whole.”
Santiago Abascal considered Guardiola’s words “a good step”, because “respect is basic between two political forces that have been voted for by Extremadurans and Spaniards in many regions, and that we are obliged to understand each other and build an alternative”.
Meanwhile, the new president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, also a Vox militant, continued yesterday the consultations for the formation of the new government. The PP spokesman, Sebastià Sagreras, was yesterday “optimistic” in reaching a definitive agreement with Vox to allow Marga Prohens to be the new president of the Balearic Islands next week.
