Neither sexist violence nor incompatibility of programs. The reason that there could not have been an agreement in Extremadura that would make the PP candidate, María Guardiola, president of the Junta, lies in the “disproportionate demands” of the national leadership of Vox, which interfered in the negotiations that led to carried out the regional directions of both formations, and made them impossible.
The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in statements to the media after meeting with the board of the Fundación Reformismo 21, revealed that it was the interference of the national direction of Vox – Jorge Buxadé attended the constitution of the Assembly of Extremadura – the one that spoiled a possible agreement, because “they came to rectify in whole or in part”, the initial conversations that the Extremaduran leaders of PP and Vox had had.
The president of the PP equally defends that Carlos Mazón has reached agreements with Vox in the Valencian Community, and that María Mazón has broken the talks in Extremadura and demands to govern alone. The reason, that “the results have not been the same in all the communities” and Extremadura is not the same, in which Vox obtained “the most modest results” of the formation, 8% of the votes and 5 deputies, that the 12% of votes and 13 deputies achieved by Vox in the Valencia Community, and “given this need for a different number of deputies, the correct way has been chosen” also in Valencia
For Feijóo, with five deputies, as Vox has in Extremadura, “it is not reasonable that Vox intends to preside over the Assembly, control the Assembly Table and form part of the government with several advisers.” What’s more, he considers it “disproportionate”, because the PP has almost 39% of the votes and Vox 8, and the PP has 28 seats and Vox 5.
So the decision of María Guardiola not to agree with Vox even if they have to go to repeat elections. Of course, the president of the PP sends a message to Vox, “the PP is a party that has principles” and “it is not going to blend in with Sánchez’s policies”, because “if something is disproportionate, and it goes against the votes obtained at the ballot box, we fulfilled it”. A notice that the PP will not give in, that it will go to elections first, not as Pedro Sánchez did to form a government with United We Can.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo made these statements after meeting with the Board of Trustees of the Fundación reformismo21, chaired by Pablo Vázquez, in a meeting in which a memory was held for Josep Piqué, and the former leader of Ciudadanos Luis Garicano was brought in. The president of the PP was interested in the measures that they are preparing for their electoral program with which we want to “return the political agenda to the Spanish people” after in recent years “we have witnessed an experiment in economic and political social engineering that has not was inspired by the social majority of the country, but was imposed by the pressure of the minorities”, because although “for a democrat, any minority is respectable, but not in exchange for violating the majority social consensus”, he said in a clear allusion from the minority part of the Sánchez government, that is, we can, but also a reference to Vox, who warns that he will not accept that he is imposed, being a minority, if what he wants goes against the majority of society.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo stressed to the members of the Foundation that one of his priorities is the economy, and he asks them for measures to help him meet an objective that he has if he is Prime Minister, that “the Spanish economy be one of the three economies that more grow in the European Union”.
For this, he considers it essential to increase economic growth and that it be “strong and sustainable”. A growth with quality employment, and without “pointing out those who create wealth.”
