The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, will attend the constitutive session of the XI Legislature next Monday in Les Corts Valencianes. This first plenary session will mark the beginning of the pact reached between the PP and the extreme right and will allow Vox to place one of its leaders in the Presidency of the autonomous Parliament prior to appointing three members (one vice president and two ministers) of the future Valencian government .
While for the PP the Vox agreement in the Valencian Community and the content of the agreed measures -especially the acceptance of the term intrafamily violence- has generated doubts and tensions in the popular ranks, the content of the agreement has been applauded by Vox. In fact, the formation led by Abascal proposed in the last regional elections to become part of the governments – as it had already achieved in Castilla y León in its day – and, for now, it has only succeeded in the Valencian Community.
Thus, Vox has vindicated the measures reached (as well as other pacts with the PP that are not exempt from controversy, such as that of Nàquera, Elx or Torrent) and there is no doubt that the Valencian model is the one that the extreme right aspires to implement in other regions and also in Spain after the general elections on July 23.
At the beginning of the week, Abascal himself insisted that the Popular Party will have to agree with Vox in the territories in which it does not have an absolute majority, just as it has done in the Valencian Community.
His demands have not been met, for the moment, not even in the Balearic Islands, where he has also achieved the Presidency of the Chamber, but his presence in the regional Executive is not clear; much less in Extremadura, where the necessary compromise with the popular María Guardiola has blown up.
This being the case, the quick agreement with the PP in the Valencian Community is the one that has come out the best for it, since it has allowed those of Santiago Abascal to express some of their proposals black on white – although, yes, they had to sacrifice their head of list, Carlos Flores, and convert him into a candidate for the generals- and enter the future Consell.
In the PP, Alberto Nuñez Feijóo defended that the difference in votes achieved in the different regions are what have caused the popular ones to allow or not those of Abascal to enter the governments. It is true that in Extremadura Vox achieved 8% and in the Valencian Community 12%, but it is no less true that in the Balearic Islands it rose to almost 14% and the entry of the extreme right has not yet materialized in an agreement.
Thus, the Vox roadmap and its demands have only been achieved in the Valencian Community, for now, so it is not surprising that its national leader will come next Monday to endorse the model that the formation aspires to extend to other communities.
