The commitment to the most voted list defended by the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, does not seem to convince the territorial leaders of his party. There are more and more municipalities in which the PP equation with Vox is emerging as the most common sum. After the municipal elections on May 28, there are 229 municipalities in which the PP and Vox have a sufficient majority to govern and in 84 of them they can do so even though the PSOE is the list with the most votes.
In the specific case of the provincial capitals, 28 of a total of 50 may be governed by the PP starting tomorrow. Of these, in 14 cases, the popular mayors will obtain the confidence of the plenary session by an absolute majority of their own councilors, but in another 14 the appointment depends on the support they can obtain. And there appears Vox
The case of the Castilian-Leonese city has already been closed for days. Yesterday it emerged that the agreement reached with Vox grants the far-right party the departments of Citizen Security, Culture and Education, among others. The pact includes a plan against squatting and support for victims, and a comprehensive plan for economic, social and cultural support for the family, with special attention to the birth rate, and the incorporation of the family perspective in municipal management and regulations .
The candidate of the Popular party, Carlos Velázquez, will become the next mayor of the city tomorrow with the support of the four Vox mayors, thus ousting the socialist Milagros Tolón, who led the most voted candidacy in the elections on the 28th The pact of the PP with the extreme right puts an end to more than 16 years of socialist government in this city. In a similar situation, although it has not yet been officially made public, is Guadalajara, where PP and Vox are going to take over the city government. The new mayoress, from the PP, will be Ana Guarinos.
PP and Vox have extended their agreement beyond the Valencian Generalitat. A few days ago the pact to govern in the city of Elx was announced, where the PSOE was the list with the most votes with 12 deputies and the PP the second, with 11. However, the sum with Vox has allowed it to wrest the government from the socialists. This same scheme is also repeated in Torrent, where the PSOE obtained ten councilors and the PP, nine, which, added to the four from Vox, will wrest the mayoralty from the PSOE. The same could happen in Xàvia, where the future of the government is in the hands of an independent group.
The PP accelerates the pacts with Vox in the Madrid city councils. The Ayuso effect, which will allow the PP to govern with an absolute majority in the Community of Madrid, dragged down a good part of its municipal candidates on 28-M, sponsoring notable reversals in some Madrid towns, among which Galapagar stands out. The final count of ballots in the municipality – which acquired political notoriety for being the residence chosen by Pablo Iglesias and the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero – left Podemos without representation and the PSOE in a minority, so that the PP, which was the force with the most votes, will be able to evict the socialists from the mayor’s office, although it will have to have the support of the Vox mayors to govern.
Something similar could be repeated in some 40 more municipalities, including cities where the PSOE did obtain the majority of votes, such as Alcalá de Henares or Arganda del Rey. The regional leadership of the PP has given the go-ahead to the signing of coalition agreements with the party led by Santiago Abascal in exchange for evicting the PSOE. Even in those cases where the PP has not been the most voted force.
One of the most singular cases of the ongoing negotiations is that of Jaén, where the PSOE and the PP obtained exactly the same number of councillors, 11. Vox obtained another two and the Jaén Deserves More formation, framed in the platforms of Spain Empty, she got three, so it’s all in her hands tomorrow. The Socialist Party has offered Borgen a solution, it is willing to hand over the mayoralty to form a government.
And in terms of exotic agreements, that of La Guardia, in Toledo, where an agreement is outlined between PP and Podemos to expel the mayor of the PSOE. Podemos has already said that if it materializes, it will open a file to its councilors.
