The victories sometimes they are poisoned and this is one of the cases. The PP won the elections in Castilla y León on Sunday, but the path to negotiating the investiture will be arduous. The clear sum is with Vox. However, this alliance has so many derivatives at the national level that Pablo Casado is trying measure the times and take care of the staging. For now, his number two, Teodoro García Egea, has made a round in the media this morning to launch two messages: leave the responsibility to his PP candidate, Alfonso Fernández manuecoand mark distances with Vox.
The general secretary of the popular party has launched the option that Mañueco (31 attorneys) manage to be invested with the support of minority forces [Soria Ya (3), Unión del Pueblo Leonés (3), Por Ávila (1) y Ciudadanos (1)] and the abstention of at least two deputies of the far-right force, which has 13 attorneys. “Five political forces are not a little Frankenstein? & rdquor;, the journalist asked him, remembering the expression used by the conservatives when they refer to the Executive of Pedro Sánchez between PSOE and United We Can. “It depends on where they are going and it depends on the project that is put on the table,” he replied. García Egea added that it is necessary to “trace a course from the beginning”, and “change the chip” to “work with these new majorities” in this “so fragmented” parliamentary configuration.
However, the Vox candidate, Juan García Gallardo, has made it clear this afternoon that the PP does not expect that “free” abstention. If Citizens, he has explained, facilitated Mañueco’s investiture in 2019 and achieved the vice presidency and three councils, they want the same thing, at least. “Lose all hope that we are going to give away our votes. Vox voters have the same value as those of Ciudadanos,” García Gallardo said.
The option of electoral repetition, at this time, is not raised in any general headquarters.
desire and reality
The PP prioritizes a monocolor Executive, with Vox outside the Executive, to prevent that alliance in power from becoming a ballast for their interests in the next electoral calls (Andalusian, municipal, regional and general), since the left would use it to mobilize their voters. However, Santiago Abascal already made it clear on Sunday night that he will demand a vice-presidency of the regional Executive. Vox has won 13 seats and the first reaction has been to try to assume executive power, something that he had so far rejected.
Mañueco, whom the national leadership wants to bear the responsibility for the final photo to try to protect Casado, has not been so blunt in his public interventions this Monday and has left all possibilities open, including sharing the Executive with Vox.
Moreno’s plan in Andalusia
The time has come for Pablo Casado to make a decision. He encouraged the early call for elections to the Board and he will also decide how far that negotiation with Abascal goes. Juanma dark, president of the Junta de Andalucía, and the next to go to the polls, will attend these negotiations with tension. For now, the rush to get on the supposed wave of Castilla y León has vanished, because the PP has not fulfilled its expectations and has not achieved the overwhelming victory that they celebrated in advance when they called the elections. Moreno has until December to call the polls, since in that month the legislature will run out, despite the fact that he had even said that he could advance them to October and even June.
In Moreno’s team they warn that the electoral calendar makes it unfeasible to seek a possible abstention from the PSOE in Castilla y León with the aim of preventing the extreme right from coming to power. That option, sources from the Andalusian PP explain, would negatively affect Moreno in the first place, because Vox “would have half a campaign done” by being able to say that “bipartisanship is understood” and that it is “altering” the “will of the polls.”
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In addition, Casado has reopened the internal crisis with Isabel Díaz Ayuso. One of his advisers has warned this morning in Madrid that the president sees it necessary to convene the PP congress in Madrid as soon as possible. The party leader keeps delaying that decision for fear that Ayuso gathers too much power and could become a danger to himself and his leadership.