Toledo (EFE).- The candidate of Unidas Podemos in La Guardia (Toledo), Víctor Hernández, has defended that his government agreement with the Popular Party is “totally legitimate”.
In statements to EFE, Hernández recalled that in the campaign he promised “over and over again” that the PSOE was not going to govern with their votes.
For this reason, he has affirmed that to understand what is happening in his town, one must know the “management” of the PSOE, which has governed there for 28 years.
Specifically, he has spoken of a “disastrous management”, especially in breach of the rights of municipal workers.
He affirms that Podemos in La Guardia was created to “fight” against the abuses of the PSOE
The Podemos de La Guardia circle was formed after the 2019 municipal elections under the premise of “fighting” against the “abuses” of the PSOE.
“We have promised endlessly that we are going to remove the PSOE from the institutions and that the PSOE cannot govern with our votes, active or passive, it cannot,” said Hernández.
Regarding the fact that Podemos Castilla-La Mancha has advanced that it will expel the three councilors of La Guardia if they sign a government pact with the PP, Hernández has criticized the measure, since in the municipality they have gone from zero to three councilors.
He has also claimed that in La Guardia, the list he heads has obtained almost a 25% percentage of the vote compared to less than 5% of the votes that United Podemos has obtained in the regional elections.
Hernández has said that they are not going to allow the leaders of his party “to come and tell La Guardia how we have to do municipal politics.”
The agreement with the PP for the next four years leaves United We Can “a very important weight” in the City Council that “would have been impossible with the PSOE”, said the head of the list.
Specifically, United We Can have a Mayor’s Office, in charge of public services, municipal personnel and promotion and improvement of employment, and the departments of Culture and Tourism and Economy and Finance.
The PP does not know the details of the possible agreement in La Guardia
The president of the PP of Castilla-La Mancha, Paco Núñez, has told journalists, at a press conference in Toledo, that he “does not know” the details and if there is an agreement in La Guardia and that, therefore, he cannot assess what you don’t know.
He has considered that “the smaller the municipality, the more it tends to depend on the people and less on the parties.”
For this reason, he has stated that he is “convinced” that in the case of La Guardia a possible agreement between PP and Podemos “will have a lot to do with people” and not with the political sign of the parties.
The PSOE knew that the PP-Unidas Podemos agreement was “possible”
For his part, the PSOE candidate in La Guardia, Francisco Javier Pasamonte, has stated that he “knew that an agreement between the PP and United We Can” was possible.
“I have seen them get together a lot and have coffee and that relationship made it possible for them to understand each other later,” he argued.
Pasamonte has been mayor since 2011 (although the PSOE has governed La Guardia since 1995) and has said that the atmosphere in the town “is very troubled, because it is a very quiet town and is not used to so much media coverage.”
EFE has tried to speak with the PP candidate, Marta Maroto, who has not responded.