Francina Armengol has submitted her resignation as president of the Balearic Islands on Monday to be able to head the list of the Balearic PSOE to the Congress of Deputies on July 23. Armengol has registered this morning her resignation as deputy, which means her immediate dismissal as president of the Balearic Islands. The current Minister of Agriculture, Mae de la Concha (Podemos) will remain in office until there is a new Government.
The already former president of the Balearic Islands has said goodbye to her position taking stock of her eight years at the helm of the Government. “We leave with social peace despite everything we have experienced,” Armengol highlighted in her farewell. He has also stressed that the Balearic economy “is better than ever” and has specified that it leaves a healthy administration with debt reduction and full employment in the Islands.
Armengol will take office tomorrow as a deputy of the XI Legislature and will continue as a deputy in the Balearic Parliament until he takes possession of his seat in the Congress of Deputies. The socialist candidate has announced that she will intervene as a representative of the PSOE in the investiture session of Marga Prohens, for which there is still no date.
The Balearic Parliament is constituted this Tuesday without, for now, an agreement has been closed between PP and Vox neither for the composition of the Table nor for the investiture of Prohens as president. The Balearic PP insists that it does not want Vox in the Balearic Government. An abstention from Vox is enough for Prohens since the PP alone has more deputies than the left-wing parties.
The leader of Vox on the islands, Jorge Campos, has announced this Monday that he will be the candidate of this formation for the elections on July 23 and has resigned his seat in the Balearic Parliament. This resignation could help close an agreement between PP and Vox in the Balearic Islands, which, according to Campos himself, is on track.
Negotiations between the parties have been complicated by discrepancies in linguistic matters. Vox demands that there be freedom of choice of language at all stages of education so that whoever wants to study in Spanish has it guaranteed. The PP program is committed to the free choice of language, but only in the early educational stages.
