The Balearic PP looks at Murcia. The candidate for the presidency of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, begins negotiations with Vox this Wednesday with a prior requirement on the table: she will not negotiate a mixed PP-Vox government, as in the Valencian Community, but rather wants a government alone, the same aspiration as in Murcia.
The correlation of forces in the Balearic Islands is closer to that of Murcia than to that of the Valencian Community. The PP achieved 26 deputies and was four seats short of an absolute majority, which stands at 30. It outnumbered the entire left together, so it would be enough with an abstention of the eight Vox deputies in the second vote of the investiture for Marga Prohens to be president.
The difference with the Valencian Community, with which the Balearic Islands are compared, is that the Valencian candidate, Carlos Manzón, needed Vox’s affirmative vote, but for Prohens the abstention of four of the eight Vox deputies is enough to be the Substitute for Francina Armengol. That is the card with which Prohens plays in the negotiation that has just begun and it is what the party leaders have been repeating all these days: there is no other option than a lone government.
Sources of the Balearic PP assure that the firmness is total, even at the cost of the institutional blockade leading to early elections. The Balearic Statute of Autonomy establishes that elections are called automatically if 60 days after the first vote of the investiture there is no president, which would place an electoral scenario in November. The ‘popular’ point to Vox and assure that they will be responsible for the left to continue to govern until then and for there to be new elections if they do not abstain.
Vox’s position has varied since the negotiations began. At first, the party was much more tepid when verifying that the PP only needs one abstention. His initial request was the presidency of the Balearic Parliament, but positions have hardened in recent days with the arrival on the scene of an emissary sent by Santiago Abascal to participate in the negotiations.
From that moment on, the Vox candidate, Jorge Campos, began to repeat the message that his model was Castilla y León, which has now become the Valencian Community. The arrival of the negotiator made Vox stand up at the first meeting because the president of the Balearic PP, Marga Prohens, did not attend, something that they considered an insult to their militants and voters.
The delay in starting the negotiations has meant that the full constitution of the Balearic Parliament is on the air right now, scheduled for Tuesday the 20th. There is a deadline until the 27th, the deadline set by law, and the PP seems to be willing to give up a position on the Board of the Balearic Parliament to Vox, but for now the possibility of giving up the presidency of the autonomous Chamber has not been considered. Vox wanted the presidency of the Chamber, but the Balearic PP points again to Murcia, where the discrepancies have left the far-right party without representation at the Table.
In the midst of the negotiation between the two parties, another problem has come up: the possibility that the Vox candidate, Jorge Campos, will go number one to the Congress of Deputies in the July 23 elections, which urges the negotiation. Initially, Vox was expected to announce its candidates yesterday, but there are still no names on the table and it is all speculation.
