Six days after knowing the electoral result in Extremadura, where the sum of PP (28 deputies) and Vox (5) would facilitate a change of government in this autonomous community, thus evicting Guillermo Fernández Vara, the distance that separates both parties that hold the presidency of the Board. At least at the level of the two main leaders, another thing is the immediately lower step, where some initial informal conversations have begun, lukewarm for the moment, although the deal is much more fluid, according to various sources confirm to EL MUNDO. Of course, there is still no date or place for the first official meeting.
“Whoever thinks that my word is strategy is wrong, those who know me well know it,” María Guardiola, the PP’s candidate for the Junta de Extremadura, assured this morning, who at the regional board of directors of her party, held this Saturday in Mérida, has once again made clear its distance from Vox, which it needs to govern in this autonomous community: “”There is neither an agreement nor are we negotiating because Mr. Pelayo (the candidate from Abascal’s formation) has not yet received authorization to be able to sit down with me”. .
In any case, María Guardiola has asked the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, to “let” the candidate in Extremadura sit down with her to negotiate because “the future of Extremadura is not decided anywhere but here.” And she has added: “Extremadura is not negotiated in Madrid”, the popular leader has asserted. And regarding the words of Alberto Núñez Feijoó insisting on his offer to the PSOE to let the most voted list govern in all of Spain, Guardiola warned that his national president “has told me what he had to tell me”, “my bosses are from Extremadura “.
Of course, Guardiola has confessed that “I wish there was a pact already because that is what Extremadura want” and has clarified that “I have reiterated on several occasions that here, in Extremadura, on behalf of the Popular Party I am the only one that is going to negotiate and I have not yet sat down with the Vox candidate”. In this sense, Guardiola has assured that “my word is sacred, as many of you who are here know, and that I do not change it”. He was referring to his idea of ??”governing alone”, thus sending a new message to the Vox formation: he will not accept that they keep some councils.
As EL MUNDO published on Thursday, Guardiola and Pelayo Gordillo exchanged WhatsApp messages with the intention of setting up a meeting in the near future but without specifying anything. And there has been no contact again.
The only public statements made by the Vox candidate in Extremadura were made last Thursday and he expressed his willingness to agree but made it clear that “he is not going to give away votes” to Guardiola in case “our voters wanted the PP to win.” They would have voted for them.”
Regarding the PSOE, Guardiola said that they had to be reminded that “we are in a representative democracy and we have 28 deputies, exactly the same as them and that the blocks, which are the ones that set the pace of the institutions, once it has been diluted bipartisanship, what they say is that we have options to govern”, in reference to the insistence of the Socialists when remembering that they were the list with the most votes. “The last submission to sanchismo”, described the president of the ‘populares’ about Fernández Vara’s change of strategy before his first intention on electoral night to abandon politics: “He understood it perfectly on electoral night when the scrutiny ended He came out and recognized that he had failed and that he assumed full responsibility, and that is the only reading that can be made of the results”.
Guardiola, for his part, took advantage of his speech before the party cadres to congratulate them on their work and in this way “fulfill a dream” and praised them because he felt supported by a team that exudes “courage and talent”. He insisted: “May 28 is a date to always remember because it is the date of change for this earth.” He also congratulated the new mayors of the PP and consolidate those who have consolidated their results in the mayors: “You have left your soul, you have given everything”, for those who have not been able to achieve it.
Regarding the statistics left by election night, Guardiola recalled that his candidate has gone from 27% to 38.85% of the vote. In the province of Badajoz they have won for the first time in history in ten new municipalities and in Cáceres in 13 new municipalities. Of the 20 most important municipalities in Extremadura, the PP will govern in 14, and in 8 of them with an absolute majority. So with these data he warned that “Extremadura has spoken and Extremadura has said that it wants a change and that this change be led by the Popular Party, that we be the ones who accompany them, the ones who lead that change that is headed for a different path before progress and towards prosperity and we are going to do so because we cannot fail them”.
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