The PP candidate for the presidency of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, received a Vox slam again yesterday in the second attempt to achieve a sufficient majority to reach his investiture. The popular leader this time needed a simple majority, which was possible with the abstention of the ultra-right, but Santiago Abascal’s party voted against it again, thus bringing the region closer to an electoral repetition.
After the first failed attempt on July 7, López Miras faced a revalidation yesterday without having reached a prior agreement with Vox, which predicted the outcome of yesterday’s vote, in which again the 24 votes in Against Vox, PSOE and the mixed group, represented by two deputies from Podemos, they prevailed over the 21 in favor of the PP.
During the debate prior to the vote, the presidential candidate accused Vox of being “only responsible for a possible electoral repetition”, assuring that “nobody understands” that they join their votes to those of the parties of the left. “I don’t think anyone agrees, neither their voters nor ours” and “Vox’s tacticism can lead the Region of Murcia to new elections,” López Miras downloaded.
On the contrary, the extreme right justified its vote against by insisting that the results of the 28-M elections in Murcia “said that a coalition government had to be formed”, something that the popular candidate refuses because of the ” such a resounding victory on the part of the PP”.
The leader of Vox in Murcia, José Ángel Antelo, proposed to López Miras a list of twelve agreements for the investiture that, according to what he said, “did not answer until three weeks after the elections-with a veto,” he lamented. Even so, the PP candidate is not throwing in the towel and is confident that the result of the general elections on 23-J will turn the tables: “The hand is still outstretched. We want Vox’s policies and commitments to be reflected in that PP government alone.”
What happened yesterday in Murcia served the PP to appeal to the concentration of the vote in Alberto Núñez Feijóo before 23-J, and to Abascal, to warn that he will no longer give blank checks to the PP after the “breach” of the agreements of other investitures such as “it happened in 2021 in Madrid” after the external support of Rocío Monasterio to Isabel Díaz Ayuso. “That is why Vox must enter the government. And the rest is blackmail and a lack of respect”.
