The situation of institutional blockade in Extremadura that could lead the region to new elections in November and not having a fully-functioning government until next year is already at the epicenter of the pre-campaign for the general elections on July 23. The refusal of the PP to allow Vox to enter the regional government, when it has already done so in the Valencian Community or in Castilla y León, as well as in more than a hundred municipalities, is a pulse of the party of Alberto Núñez Feijóo to the extreme right of Santiago Abascal who, as a derivative, has changed the dynamics of the PSOE both at the state and regional level.
After May 28, the Extremaduran president, the socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara, found himself so far from maintaining the position that he hinted at his departure from politics, but now, as head of the list of the most voted candidacy, he will be the one who will most likely face to an investiture debate on the eve of the elections and no longer rules out running for new elections if they must be repeated.
In this regard, the Minister of Finance and Public Function, María Jesús Montero, has defended this Thursday that “if it is authentic and sincere that the PP does not want to agree with Vox in Extremadura, it should allow Fernández Vara to govern” after recalling that “whoever has won the elections has been the PSOE”.
“Fernández Vara has all the legitimacy to present himself for the investiture,” Montero said, in an interview on RNE, in which he criticized the “political spectacle” of the PP and Vox that “are in that vaudeville where you don’t know whether or not they want to reach an agreement”. For this reason, he has denounced the “lack of judgment” and the “weakness” of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who “gives different treatment to the population of each territory.” “It seems that in Extremadura women’s rights do matter”, he ironized to contrast the situation in the region with the agreement that PP reached with Vox last week in the Valencian Community, in which the fight against violence against women was not mentioned. gender but against intra-family violence, an expression that the extreme right defends to oppose the term gender violence that it considers ideological.
For his part, Fernández Vara has demanded in separate interviews on Ser and on TVE to PP and Vox that they “stop playing with Extremadura”, which in his opinion they use as a “laboratory”. “The PP and Vox are rehearsing in Extremadura what their future relationship is going to be like,” lamented the acting president, who is “deeply hurt by the contempt they are having with Extremadura.” “It seems as if they were playing a game of chess and the pawns were the men and women from Extremadura”, he has ugly.
The socialist leader has claimed his electoral victory, has wanted to expose the PP for its pacts with Vox in several towns in the region and has accused the PP candidate, María Guardiola, of “overshadowing” the Valencian pact with a position different. “They are only talking about getting the PSOE out of the government, but not about the problems of the people,” the president reproached, adding that “the problem is that whoever lost believed they had won and on Tuesday they ran into the hangover reality”.
Regarding his candidacy in a hypothetical electoral repetition, Fernández Vara has not wanted to get wet yet. “I have not decided or thought about it. I am going to do everything possible so that there are no elections,” he said. “Millions of euros have to be executed and while we are in office we cannot sign agreements”, indicated the acting president, who has considered that repeating the elections seems to him “nonsense” and “outrageous” after making his own calculations according to which there would not be a fully functioning government until at least January of next year.
