Vox extends its hand even more to the Popular Party. The far-right party has issued a statement this Sunday announcing that it would give its support to a possible investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo without more red lines than to prevent Pedro Sánchez from being able to reissue the coalition government with the support of the pro-independence parties.
Santiago Abascal’s party continues to try to convince the Popular Party that the ultra formation is the most reliable. Or, at least, the only one with which to build bridges with which to try to reach Moncloa. In the statement, Vox assures that its 33 deputies “would support a constitutional majority” in the Congress of Deputies that would allow the formation of a government that avoids the alleged “threats” that Sánchez could be inaugurated as Prime Minister again for Spain.
“Vox will not be anyone’s excuse or the impediment to avoid a government of those who seek to destroy the foundations of the Constitution,” reads the statement. “We insist on that position that we consider prudent and sensible, despite those who insist on demonizing Vox,” the document ends with clear messages to Genoa.
Vox insists that the future of Spain “cannot be in the hands of its enemies” and assures that it will support “an alternative that avoids it” to warn of the danger that, in its opinion, the formation of a government supported by “the coup leader and fugitive from justice Carles Puigdemont” and the possibility that Sánchez “accept a referendum on self-determination and other cessions that blow up the constitutional order.”
Vox seeks with this movement, his penultimate attempt to prevent Sánchez from continuing in Moncloa. According to party sources, those of Santiago Abascal intend to encourage Feijóo to seek the support of the PNV and the Canary Islands Coalition to achieve a simple majority in the second vote of the investiture.
Up to now, the PNV had flatly rejected supporting the Popular Party if the ultra-right somehow entered the government equation. But this movement represents a step on the side of the extreme right that could open a new game on the board in which the investiture is negotiated.
The Vox statement has already received a response from the popular leader, who has declared that the position of Abascal’s party “is progress” that implies “acknowledging victory” and frames it “in the field of constitutionalism.” Feijóo has assured this Sunday that his objective is to achieve a “broad and constitutional agreement” to be able to be sworn in as Prime Minister and avoid the other two possible scenarios: “or blockade and electoral repetition” or “an investiture by Mr. Sánchez”.
In an act at the LXXI Festa do Albariño in Cambados (Pontevedra), Núñez Feijóo has said that he appears before the “interest and concern of the majority of Spaniards in the situation of political uncertainty.”
