“Alea jacta est,” said Julius Caesar as he crossed the Rubicon. Something similar must have gone through the head of the president of the PP in Extremadura, María Guardiola, when yesterday she broke off negotiations with Vox to obtain an investiture without accepting the ultra-right in her government and assumed the possibility of repeating the elections, a bet full of risks that could catapult her to success or end her career at 44.
Guardiola’s serious disqualifications of Santiago Abascal’s party -denial of sexist violence, dehumanization of immigrants, arrogance, lust for power, marketing and embarrassment, among others- and even of its members -he called his national spokesman, Jorge Buxadé, “overseer of the feudal lord” – leave little room for a shift in the positions of both parties.
The disagreement between PP and Vox yesterday led the PSOE, the most voted list on 28-M but without the possibility of overcoming the two right-wing, to retain the presidency of the Assembly of Extremadura, a position that fell back to Blanca Martín Delgado, who will have control of parliamentary times, key to what will happen in the coming weeks, just over a month before the general elections.
The acting president of the Junta de Extremadura, the socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara, has taken advantage of the situation to announce his candidacy for the investiture, an initiative that clearly will not prosper but that will serve to start the clock ticking so that they become to call elections, foreseeably in November.
The regional elections in Extremadura left the PSOE and the PP tied at 28 seats; Vox, with 5, and the Podemos-IU coalition, with 4.
