Oviedo (EFE).- Foro Asturias considers that the coalition proposal launched by the PP for the May 28 elections was nothing more than an offer of an unacceptable “alliance by absorption”, like any agreement that puts Suma in the same bag Principality, the new party created around the figure of Francisco-Álvarez Cascos.
«The PP cannot be looking for agreements with Álvarez-Cascos and with Foro at the same time. It is incompatible due to a matter of principle,” said the president of the regionalist party and candidate for Mayor of Gijón, Carmen Moriyón, at a press conference with the party’s general secretary and candidate for the Principality, Adrián Pumares.
The latter has avoided pronouncing on the possibility of establishing agreements after the elections, “out of respect for the citizenry”, but he has questioned whether Asturias would agree with the PP proposal that the list with the most votes be allowed to govern if what is sought is a change.
Pumares is also very clear that it will be very difficult for Foro to reach agreements with Vox because it has shown that “it is not a reliable political partner.”
own political project
“We have our own political project and no one is going to set our agenda,” said the Foro candidate for the Presidency, who is convinced that they will see an increase in their representation in the Principality’s General Meeting, in which they won two deputies in the last elections, which will have an “excellent result in Gijón” and which will again have a presence in Oviedo and Avilés.
Both Pumares and Moriyón have defended the agreement that the PP and Foro maintain in the Congress of Deputies, a coalition that they consider to have been beneficial and to which, as they have stressed, they will be loyal until the end of the legislature.
For the party leader and candidate in Gijón, after the crisis generated after the stage of Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, Foro managed to rise up and become a party that does not kneel before Madrid and that knows “that minorities sometimes decide, and decide a lot”.
With a view to preparing the electoral program, the Forum has launched a digital platform to collect proposals from citizens, has scheduled more than a hundred meetings with representatives of civil society and will listen to citizens “on the street”. .
“The Forum did well when it was glued to the street,” its president stressed when presenting the “Plan Asturias,” a participation strategy that will culminate in the preparation and presentation of a document of electoral commitments in the month of May. EFE