While the popular deputy María Guardiola has made official this Tuesday her candidacy for the investiture as president of the Junta de Extremadura, which will take place on July 13 and 14, already in the middle of the electoral campaign and that will go ahead after the agreement reached between the PP and Vox to form a coalition government, the general secretary of the PSOE of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, has confirmed that he has formally requested the withdrawal of his candidacy for the investiture, scheduled for this Wednesday and Thursday, that he will not be the leader of the opposition in the regional Parliament and that he will abandon his responsibilities in the party next autumn.
After the PP-Vox pact was made public on Friday, the socialist candidate proposed calling a new round of consultations, which was carried out this morning by the president of the Chamber, Blanca Martín, who, at the end of it, indicated that the investiture session It will begin on Thursday, the 13th, at 6:00 p.m., and will resume on Friday, the 14th, at 9:00 a.m., with the intervention of the different parliamentary groups. “That is the proposal that, as I say, I will raise to the table of the Assembly of Extremadura and the Board of Spokespersons in the coming days. Therefore, there is no plenary call until those bodies meet,” she asserted. .
Fernández Vara himself has opened this round of consultations and upon leaving, in statements to journalists, has indicated that he has formally transferred to Martín his resignation from being a candidate and that, as he announced on election night on May 28, he will leave the leadership of the party in autumn, in a congress. Fernández Vara will leave the forefront of politics after twelve years as president of the Board and fifteen as regional leader of the PSOE.
Fernández Vara had formally presented his candidacy for the investiture as leader of the most voted list, despite not having a sufficient majority, after the negotiations between PP and Vox did not prosper at first, which meant that the majority bloc of the right lose the presidency of the Assembly, which has once again fallen to the socialist Blanca Martín.
After a first round of consultations with the parliamentary groups, Martín ignored Guardiola, who had asked for more time to reach an agreement with Santiago Abascal’s party, appointed Fernández Vara as a candidate and set the investiture plenary for days 5 and July 6.
