The acting president of the Junta de Extremadura, the socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara, has announced this Wednesday that he will present himself for the investiture to the Presidency of the regional Executive, and has asked the rest of the parties to abstain and “let the list govern most voted” after yesterday the negotiations between PP and Vox broke down to reach an agreement to invest the popular María Guardiola as president.
At a press conference this Wednesday in Mérida, Fernández Vara pointed out that this past Tuesday “the bridges blew up” between PP and Vox in the constitution of the Assembly of Extremadura, whose presidency ended up falling to the PSOE when the PP had offered it to the party of Santiago Abascal, for which reason it has considered that these parties “have failed in their attempts to reach an agreement” and has demanded that they “allow the list with the most votes to govern”.
“Let Extremadura have a government, let whoever won the elections can govern,” Fernández Vara reiterated, recalling that the PSOE was “the list with the most votes” in the elections on March 28 and “the only option of government at this time”.
In his speech, the socialist leader has accused PP and Vox of using “Extremadura as a laboratory” to carry out his experiences and as a “chessboard” in which the people of Extremadura are his “pawns”, something that “produces immense concern”, after which he has demanded that they “stop playing with Extremadura”. In addition, he has pointed out that despite the criticism that Guardiola made this Tuesday against Vox, he has allowed agreements with this formation in Extremadura to govern in town halls in the region.
The Vara announcement will imply that in the coming weeks there will be an inauguration debate for Fernández Vara that is clearly a failure given that María Guardiola, who yesterday vetoed Vox’s entry into the regional government, also assured that she would not allow the PSOE to return to govern at the same time that it was willing to go to new elections if it was forced to do so. In any case, the regional leader of the PP said last night that she was not giving up “and she hopes that Vox will “reconsider and can support a government of change” in the community.
