The former president of Extremadura Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra advocates letting the list with the most votes rule in the next general elections, which will be held at the end of this year on a date yet to be specified. Whoever was one of the main socialist barons also warns that the citizen should “learn the lesson” when choosing a ballot to avoid the current situation of a minority coalition Executive supported in parliament by pro-independence parties: “Vote for the PSOE or the PP”.
“It seems that in Spain it is impossible to agree between different political forces but that are within the centrality when in the Transition, for example, it was agreed between those who won the war and those who lost it, among those who were in jail and those who brought them in, between those who were in exile and those who sent them into exile… In other words, I think there was less affinity between La Pasionaria and Fraga than between Sánchez and Feijoo. If they were able to do it then, Why aren’t they capable of doing it now?”, argued the person who was the regional leader for 24 years to questions from EL MUNDO.
According to Rodríguez Ibarra, who has always been very critical of the partners of the current Prime Minister, if the PSOE and the PP do not reach an agreement in the next legislature, they will have to continue depending on parties that seek “the destruction of the Spanish Constitution of 1978”. To which he added: “And you shouldn’t go hand in hand with those people because they don’t want to defend the same thing that we, the democratic people of this country, defend.”
“If there is no possibility of reaching any type of agreement, let it be known at least that the independentistas, the filoetarras, the right-wing extremists… they are not going to have a game in these next elections because it is going to be made clear that they are not going to to agree with them, otherwise they are going to allow one of the two to govern. And if we do not want what has happened now to happen, we will have the obligation not to vote as we voted in 2019. Because if we vote in the same way we will have the same we have now”, remarked the ex-president from Extremadura.
In addition, Rodríguez Ibarra has indicated that “I wish Ciudadanos would not disappear” because then there would be “more possibilities of not taking such a big leap” and of “setting foot not in the other half, but in the middle.” In this sense, he has considered that the center parties “fail due to the excessive ambition of their leaders, the last Albert Rivera”: “If he had not been so ambitious to believe that he could have beaten the PP, he would have been a magnificent reinforcement of the Government of Sánchez. And today we would be in a radically different dynamic.”
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