clarified yesterday Santiago Abascal that their desire to return to the same point where they left it remains intact and “if there is a government programmatic agreement, measure by measure, yes”Vox’s intention is to share three autonomous governments with the PP: in Extremadura, Aragón and Castilla y León.
Two years after the “spantá” on the occasion of the solidarity distribution of unaccompanied immigrant minors, the green formation changes its strategy and is committed to stepping on the carpet again. Despite the lurches of recent months, as proven by the chronology of events.
The popular leadership greets Abascal’s words and shakes his hand firmly to begin a new stage of understanding after a long period of crossed attacks. Without abandoning the irony. That wounds do not heal overnight and in the last three campaigns Vox has based its strategy on marking distance with a PP that it has described as a “scam” upwards.
“If the requirement to unlock governability is seats and governing with the ‘blue PSOE’, it will not be a big problem”they relativize in the team Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
It applies the basis of the framework document that Génova designed when it decided to take a seat in the negotiations for Extremadura and Aragón in the face of the risk of an electoral repetition, especially in the first place, where the distance with Maria Guardiola seemed insurmountable. Although last week Abascal said that if the agreement was not closed it was because of Genoa, not Guardiola.
In that programmatic text, which so irritated Vox, the PP stipulated the parameters of proportionality when it came to creating future coalition governments, as it seems will end up happening in the three regions in which elections have just been held.
According to knowledgeable sources to LA RAZÓN, since Miguel Tellado became part of Guardiola’s negotiating team, at no time has Vox talked about positions. All the advances consisted of a programmatic list of 76 points, with the positions very, very close. “They were afraid to agree”describe the popular ones, who did not hesitate to squeeze the blockade of Guardiola’s investiture to portray Vox.
With a very positive result in Castilla y León for the PP, due to its unexpected rise; and bittersweet for Vox, due to the slowdown in their expectations, in Genoa they assure that there is no other possible escape: we have to row in the same direction. Therefore, they will not put any reservations to reach the pact. Although we have to govern together. A scenario that, deep down, no formation commander wants.
The dilemma is complex. On the one hand, the thesis that the party cadres use is that Vox will go down again the moment they return to the institutions and demonstrate that “your program is unrealizable”as explained in these pages Juanma Moreno.
On the other hand, the idyllic formula for any politician who lends himself, also from the PP, is to govern alone. «Which party prefers to govern with another? We prefer to govern alone, of course. But if the requirement to reach an agreement with Vox is that they govern with the blue PSOE…”, they reiterate in the direction of Genoa.
Mañueco wants guarantees
Mañueco has always expressed his reservations about re-editing another government with Vox. Because of the very disastrous memory he retains of the previous experience, as he himself has confessed on repeated occasions. But if there is no other option, its requirement is a commitment to durability. «Four years, four budgets»they emphasize in their surroundings to this newspaper.
As for the planned calendar, the Genoa leadership rules out a triplet. “The logical thing is that Extremadura goes first.” The forecast was to shelve it these days, but Abascal’s approach to returning to the governments could delay the date.
What they do demand in Genoa – and guarantee on their part – is a negotiation behind closed doors, without leaks to the media. “Neither are the encounters aired, nor is there an apology for the disagreement.” Once the rally noise had passed, it was time to provide stability. In the three regions in contention.
Also in Castilla y León, where the PP leadership plans to be present in the negotiation. «We are going to be in all territories to accompany and help our barons. It is not a question of intervening, but of protecting. Let no one do business with them.
Feijóo’s harangue
Feijóo expressed himself along these lines in his speech before the National Board of Directors. “There is a majority of citizens who have voted very clearly and deserve respect,” he said before the leadership of his party. «The people have voted and the people have decided. “What it is up to us to do is understand each other.”
If there is a numerical “alternative majority”, as is confirmed at the polls every time an election is held, politics “cannot fail.” If “the Spaniards are drawing the part of the change that corresponds to them with the votes,” the popular leader stated: “The rest corresponds to the parties. The ideas, the program, the policy and the responsibility.
“We cannot turn hope into frustration and hope into orphanhood,” he proclaimed in a speech directed, above all, to Abascal. Far from the campaign confrontation, he asked to put aside differences to build a common front against Sánchez.
Starting by ending the blockade in Extremadura and Aragón. «Playing with governability to campaign is not deserved by either the PP voters or those of Vox. “No one has given reasons to block, they have only made excuses and that’s it.”