Alberto Núñez Feijóo endorses the agreement reached between the PP and Vox to govern Valencia and endorses it; not because he wants it – in fact, he says that he aspires to govern without Vox – but because there was no other choice, due to the attitude of the PSOE.
Feijóo insists that if it were up to him, he would be in favor of handing over the government to the party with the most votes, even though negotiations such as those in Burgos, Toledo, Guadalajara or Extremadura cast doubt that, at least the territorial leaders, who have been given freedom to agree whatever suits them best, share this vision.
Even so, Feijóo assured in an interview with Es.Radio that he does not accept lessons from the PSOE in this matter “after having agreed with the most radical left-wing populism in Europe, such as the PCE, Podemos and Sumar” and above all, “after his pacts with the Catalan separatists and when he has governed with the support of Bildu”, so that “of legitimacy to give lessons about pacts, none”.
The pact between the PP and Vox in the Valencian Community, which will be followed by others, constitutes for the PSOE the confirmation of what Pedro Sánchez said to his deputies, just calling the elections, when he equated the PP and Vox and all two with Trump or Bolsonaro.
“The PP and Vox form an electoral ticket”, was the message of the PSOE yesterday, after seeing in the agreement a possibility of wearing down Feijóo, taking for granted that the pact will be repeated, on a national scale, after 23-J .
On the contrary, he tries to turn the tables and blames the PSOE for the agreement, for not even wanting to sit down to talk with the PP to favor the government of Mazón, winner of the elections.
As an example, Alberto Núñez Feijóo gives Cantabria, where the decision of the PRC to abstain will allow the PP not to agree with Vox because it will be able to govern alone.
Another example, Murcia, where the PP, which needs two seats for an absolute majority, refuses to agree on a government with those of Abascal, because it has more deputies than the left, and therefore there cannot be a government alternative Fernando López Miras has also decided to leave Vox without representation at the Assembly Bureau, despite Vox’s threat of a repeat election.
But the PSOE does not plan to let go of the “Que ve l’extreme derata i la extrema derato” is coming, once Feijóo has not tried to delay the agreements or wait for the elections to pass, as the PSOE predicted.
The Ministers of Defence, Margarita Robles, and of Finance, María Jesús Montero, focused the message: “The PP and Vox form an electoral ticket, so the Spanish already know what will happen if they vote for Feijóo”.
Robles, in statements to RNE, emphasized that what happened in Valencia “at full speed means that it was agreed and that a scene was made at a table where – he emphasized – there was not a single woman”, and he to insist that “Feijóo has said very clearly that he wants to govern with Vox”, which he considers to be “very worrying”.
The number two of the PSOE, for her part, reproached Feijóo that, “far from a red line, they are rolling out a red carpet for this movement to take place”, which in her opinion means “that it will be indistinguishable to vote the PP or Vox”.
What’s more, María Jesús Montero, given the choice, gives more virtues to Abascal than to Feijóo, because “Vox is reaffirming itself as a political formation that has its own criteria” and demands to enter governments and institutions, despite the reluctance initial of the PP, while Feijóo “doesn’t show his face” and “doesn’t say what he thinks”, and is therefore not trustworthy. For this reason, he made a call to take note of what he “hides”, because he has “a roadmap that harms the general interest”.
