The vote of the Table of Congress ended with an image of very hard failure for Feijóo. In the PP they assure that they cannot trust Vox and that they were never offered positions on the Table. Vox denies that version and insists: “The leader of the PP knew what was there”
After the May 28 elections, PP and Vox signed agreements in several autonomous communities and town halls throughout Spain, normalizing a relationship of pacts that until then had been avoided at all costs, with the exception of Castilla y León, the first coalition to it closed in 2021 and for which Alfonso Fernández Mañueco was singled out for some time. For two months these alliances have multiplied and all that is missing is Murciawhere the PP is opposed to including the ultra in the Government and the electoral repetition is already discounted before the end of the year.
But the relationship between the two parties of the right never built on trust. Alberto Núñez Feijóo came to the national presidency assuring that one of his objectives was to avoid Vox at all costs. As leaders stressed from the beginning, the far-right party is a non-existent phenomenon in Galicia with which the national leader, moreover, has not been able to empathize, unlike places like Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha or the Valencian Community, where the growth of those of Abascal was imposed on reality.
The recent vote of the congress table has raised even more blisters between two parties that They don’t love each other, but they need to live together. In the PP they recognize that their situation “has nothing to do with that of PSOE and Sumar& rdquor;, among other things, because Pedro Sánchez has normalized Yolanda Díaz (and all the formations that accompany him) as if he were one more extremity of the Government socialist. That does not happen on the right, where the PP not only dreamed of not having to agree with Vox, but of reducing its influence as much as possible under the premise that “There can only be one left& rdquor;.
The fact of signing alliances with the ultra confirmed Feijóo’s worst fear: an isolation that has no possible solution. As long as Vox is in your equation, the rest of the groups will flee. The Canarian Coalition deputy is key in this legislature because as long as she is on the side of the PP, Sánchez will need the yes of Junts in each vote. Leaving Vox out of the Table, they say in Genoa, “facilitated comfort & rdquor; of the Canarian nationalists, which was a primary objective. But, in exchange, Vox made a show of force, leaving Feijóo in 139 seats compared to the overwhelming figure of 178 that the socialist achieved.
Different versions and hoaxes
The image of failure was taken by Feijóo. The cracks in the block that claims to be the alternative began before and they were found in that vote. The conversations in recent days regarding a hypothetical investiture of the Galician ended with a statement from the far-right party guaranteeing the support of its 33 deputies, stating that they would allow a solo government if that prevents Sánchez from being president again.
Vox, as its leaders acknowledge, has no other option. He could not overcome a rejection of Feijóo if he gets enough numbers. But in that interlocution, the interpretations that PP and Vox make vary too much. To the point that mistrust has already set in chronically.
“We cannot trust Vox. It is not the first time that they say one thing and then do another, of course without warning, and leaving us sold & rdquor ;, they reflect on the leadership of the PP, where they categorically assure that they never offered Vox a seat on the Congressional Board.
Despite the fact that parliamentary tradition has always included the third force of the Chamber, in Genoa they insist that “never& rdquor; that message was conveyed, but rather the opposite. That they could negotiate other parliamentary aspects, for example about commission presidencies, but not a position in the governing body.
even so and to bewilderment in Vox (and in the PP itself), the conservative leadership took Abascal’s support for Cuca Gamarra’s candidacy for granted: they understood that it was not free support, but “join forces & rdquor; given the slight probability that there would be a carambola if Carles Puigdemont backed down. The PP complains that in the conversations they held just before the constitutive session began Abascal did not say that he would finally go free. And, for this reason, in Genoa they maintain that Feijóo did not know that the 33 of Vox would support their own candidate, leaving Gamarra’s option thrown away.
“We understood that logic and parliamentary tradition would make the PP put Vox on the Congress Table,” Ignacio Garriga, Vox’s general secretary, said this Friday. Sources close to Abascal, however, assure this newspaper that “in private & rdquor; they also made it clear that they wanted their votes to have a position on the Board and that “Feijóo knew what there was & rdquor; in case he didn’t. But in the PP they do not categorically deny. The talks were led by Feijóo’s Galician nucleus and Abascal’s main adviser who does not have a seat in Congress. Kiko Méndez Monasterio, Vox’s ideological guru, and Enrique Cabanas, cabinet director, were in the corridors of the chamber throughout the session.
Crisis in Vox
“Maybe in Vox they are confused. And not the PP, as you try to install on the media. We have our word and we live up to it. The day of the principles was this Thursday, not the day of the games& rdquor ;, they complain to the popular national leadership, pouring out serious criticism of the people who advise Abascal and who is also influencing the first thing that is experienced in the party as an internal crisis, leaving aside the case of Macarena Olona.
In the parliamentary group the departure of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros weighs heavily, according to different parliamentarians, concerned about the organization they will have from now on. The already exporting spokesman was in charge of distributing tasks, explaining day-to-day activities and strategies to the deputies and negotiating with the other spokespersons in a Chamber in which that is essential. “And despite the marginalization to which they have subjected us, they respected Iván,” a deputy underpins. The distrust of how the new spokeswoman, Pepa Millán (28 years old) from Cordoba, with barely a year of experience in the Senate, will act, generates many misgivings.