The PP candidate to preside over the Autonomous Community, Fernando López Miras, has not achieved an absolute majority to be sworn in as regional president on the first ballot, obtaining only 21 votes in favor and 24 against. The votes against VOX, PSOE and the Mixed Group, represented by two Podemos deputies, have knocked down his investiture as president.
The ‘popular’ candidate has only obtained the support of his group, 21 deputies, having not yet reached an agreement with VOX to get this group to also vote in favour.
López Miras will have a second chance to be sworn in as president on Monday, July 10, at 11:00 a.m., the date on which the vote will be repeated. On this occasion, to be sworn in as president, he will need a simple majority, that is, more ‘yes’ than ‘no’, so that if Vox finally abstains, the PP deputy could repeat as president of the Community.
The PP candidate has regretted that, if in this investiture session trust is not placed in who “should be in charge of the management” for the next four years, “an institutional blockade will persist that the citizens of the Region do not deserve and that society cannot afford.
“They did not choose us for that,” López Miras pointed out during his speech. In his opinion, citizens “do not have among their concerns whether the political class is capable of reaching agreements, of putting general interests before individuals” but rather “they take it for granted that it is our obligation, that it is our responsibility” .
Vox has been reminded that “they must choose to position themselves alongside the majority of the citizens of the Murcia region and demand compliance with that program or, on the contrary, block voting the same as the Socialist Party and that Podemos, materializing that blockade in the region of Murcia”.
