From unconditional support for the investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, not even having a share of power in a hypothetical coalition, to leaving his support up in the air. Vox modifies its strategy of not being an “obstacle” to “avoid a government of national destruction” and now demands a public gesture from the PP before its leader meets the King on Tuesday at the Zarzuela Palace.
Specifically, Santiago Abascal’s team has urged the party that won the elections to clarify whether it maintains the “drift” of excluding them with an “anti-democratic sanitary cordon” like the one that left them out of the Congress table despite being the third force most voted or if, on the contrary, it returns to the path of “rational and sensible agreements” like those that have been reached in the Valencian Community, Extremadura and Aragon. To questions from this newspaper, the Genoa leadership declined to answer this question.
Two weeks ago, Vox did a 180-degree turn in its position by publicly staging a step back after having claimed seats in a future Council of Ministers in exchange for their investiture votes. In this way, he tried to make it easier for the popular to have the option of obtaining other support, in a direct nod to the PNV and the Canary Islands Coalition (CC), which had drawn red lines to form part of any equation in which the acronyms were present. of the formation located more to the right of the ideological spectrum.
“This commitment was alongside the demand that Feijóo had to work openly and tirelessly to recover the neutrality of all State institutions,” Ignacio Garriga, general secretary of Abascal’s party, warned this Monday at a press conference. in Barcelona, ??despite the fact that the statement certifying the change in strategy on August 6 did not include any mention of it. In this sense, he has expressed that they now have “serious doubts” that the PP “is determined to recover that neutrality”, reports Servimedia.
And it is that in Vox they exhibit their “perplexity” at the decision of the popular not to give them a position in the Congress Table that they met 45 minutes before the vote last Thursday and once Junts had confirmed that it would support the candidate of the PSOE to the Presidency of said body, Francina Armengol. For this reason they demand that they clarify the reason why they were excluded, insinuating the possibility that it was “because they had a commitment to the PNV” to leave them out.
“It is important to have the explanations of the PP to know with which PP we are talking; if they are willing to recover institutional neutrality or if they are going to continue paying for the land of the sanitary cordon and cornering three million Spaniards,” Garriga warned.
Before Vox’s new requirement, the calculations made in Feijóo’s team is that their candidate “probably” would arrive this Tuesday with more support than Pedro Sánchez to the round of consultations with the King, since the candidate for re-election as President of the Government “at the moment he does not have the explicit support of the PNV, nor of Junts, nor of the ERC.”
For their numbers to add up, in Genoa they would need the support of the Basque nationalists – who closed the door again this Monday – or necessarily the 33 Abascal deputies. “This game is not over, it has many minutes left and you have to play them all,” confided the deputy secretary of Institutional for the popular, Esteban González Pons, in an interview on the Cope network.
