There is no agreement to form a government in Extremadura. For now. The Popular Party and Vox met this Wednesday in Mérida after a while without doing so and the rumor mill wanted to see a birth that will still have to wait. The pregnancy has at least two weeks left. More time for “heat” the Andalusian pre-campaign.
“It seems impossible until after Easter”he acknowledged Abel Bautistanumber two Maria Guardiolain a statement to the media after the meeting. At least, there is significant progress and the positions seem to be getting closer. About to caramel. Although both parties agree on the need for the measures that have been put on the table to be met.
And there are some Vox claims that have a difficult legal fit. Either due to lack of skills, or due to lack of budget. Or because, directly, they represent a toast to the sun.
As LA RAZÓN published a few days ago, before the elections in Castilla y León the programmatic document was almost finalized. But Santiago Abascal He did not want to support Guardiola’s investiture for fear of a cost at the polls and decided to leave it for later.
Today, the situation is not much different. In most of the measures that Vox has put on the table there is consensus and, as the general secretary of the Extremaduran PP recognized, “some points”In fact, they are closed.
The mess comes with the buts. Because there are some other points that raise doubts: «We have to keep going around and take them to the counseling services so they can study the proposals made by Vox.
Bautista resisted explaining where the differences come from. Minutes before, Vox issued a statement in which it expressed some ideas. Most of them, as generic as: “Safety on the streets, affordable housing, an end to public waste.”
The green party revealed some tolls that are selling well for its parish in the prelude to the elections in Andalusia. Above all, in matters of immigration. «Priority of Spaniards in health». PP leaders confirm that some limits can be established from a regional administration. It remains to be seen how it turns out on paper.
What cannot be fulfilled, because it is impossible, is the “end of Mercosur and the Green Pact”. Nor does it seem that the Board can do much to stop the closure of the Almaraz nuclear power plant, another requirement stipulated by Vox.
In terms of gender, a particularly sensitive area in which Abascal intends to earn his weight in gold, his party did not mention anything. “End of demographic substitution policies, the family at the center of all policies.”
This Wednesday’s meeting was attended by Miguel TelladoFeijóo’s right-hand man, and with three Abascal envoys: the deputy general secretary and the spokespersons for Economy and Housing. In addition to the top officials of each party in the region, naturally.
Tax reduction
As revealed by the PP, the discussion was “much more technical” in economic aspects, such as taxation. The two parties agreed on the need to undertake a “tax reduction” to “relieve the tax burden suffered by citizens.”
The final objective, Bautista stressed before the press, is to “get a government as soon as possible”, with a budgetary commitment and, as a priority, durability. Don’t let it happen again like the previous time. Let the government last a full term. “The more detailed the agreement, the more assurance there will be that both parties will be comfortable.”
“The question,” the popular leader stressed, “There is complete harmony in the statements of a large part of the measures”. Not in all of them. Different knowledgeable sources assure that the obstacles come from the gender section and from Vox’s demand to suppress the LGTBI law, which was approved by a popular president: Monago.
In any case, even in those in which there is harmony, the PP has commissioned to study the possibility that they can be applied. Because, he explained, “once you go down to detail to include the budget forecast… you have to make more adjustments.” The key: “We are not going to commit to anything we are not going to do.”
And in the message that Vox sent yesterday, certain probe balloons appear, because they are inapplicable. No community in Spain can end Mercosur or the Green Pact, nor can it force Von der Leyen’s PP to break with the PSOE in the European Parliament. Nor can it limit immigrants’ access to all State benefits.
Today, the big unknown is how the slogans launched by Vox are synthesized and, above all, if they are exactly that: slogans to be able to get a return on an agreement after putting the PP on the back foot.
Oscar Fernandezspokesperson for Vox in the Assembly, expressed himself in terms very similar to those of the PP. «There is still no type of agreement, there has not been one at any time until now. “Let’s hope there is.”
The feeling, he implied, is that there will be: “We perceive a predisposition on the part of Mrs. Guardiola for us to reach an agreement.” Because, he praised, now “he is recognizing the weight of Vox.”
The distribution of armchairs, for later
With this Wednesday’s meeting in Extremadura, the specter of a repeat election recedes. Nothing seems to indicate that the negotiations could go to waste. In fact, both PP and Vox did not hide the good harmony of the meeting and confirmed that there will be another one next week, to continue advancing in the details of the programmatic document.
“Measure to measure,” they insist from Vox, where they emphasize that the next step, of course, will be the distribution of “armchairs,” as Abascal calls them. The will continues to be to join the Board and once the program to be applied is closed, the next phase is to design the organizational chart, with the number of positions, the general directorates and, most importantly, the budget that each department receives. A point that Vox gives special importance to returning to management.