Santander (EFE).- The popular leader, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, will be the first president of Cantabria after signing this Friday an agreement for her inauguration with the PRC general secretary, Miguel Ángel Revilla, by which the popular will govern alone without Vox support.
The regionalists will abstain to prevent Vox from entering the Cantabrian Executive, which doubled its result in the region last 28M, achieving four deputies, and so that no major project launched in the last eight years by the PRC-coalition is stopped. PSOE.
María José Sáenz de Buruaga and Miguel Ángel Revilla have sealed this investiture agreement in an act in the Cantabrian Parliament, which consists of two pages and six points and which has had the unanimous support of the leadership of both parties.
The future president of Cantabria has thanked the PRC and its leader for their “gesture of responsibility” to allow her investiture after an agreement signed “with more light and impossible stenographers” after the 28M the PP achieved 15 of the 35 deputies that make up the Parliament of Cantabria, while the rest are divided between PRC (8), PSOE (8) and Vox (4).
“It is a specific investiture agreement, which is not the same as a legislature or government pact,” Buruaga emphasized, as stated in the document signed this Thursday, which also includes the commitment to “open a stage of dialogue” to comply the objectives of the text.
Back in government after two legislatures
The first point of the agreement includes the commitment to prevent the entry of any “anti-autonomist” party into the governing bodies of the autonomous community, a condition that the PRC has claimed from the outset due to its “big differences” with Vox.
Working on “essential” projects for the region such as the logistics area of La Pasiega, the new headquarters of the Museum of Prehistory and Archeology of Cantabria or the proton therapy unit at the Hospital de Valdecilla are other requirements of the agreement, which includes the “shield” of the municipalities, defend the “survival” of the rural world and “maintain and increase” the claims to the State.
These projects, said Sáenz de Buruaga, are “a priority for the PP” and for its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
The popular ones, who also agree to remove the wolf from the List of Species under Special Protection Regime, will return to govern the autonomous community after two terms in opposition.
The pact “does not condition”
The leader of the PP has assured that this firm “does not condition at all” her government program, “it does not imply any assignment and does not involve any extra effort” because everything it collects is part of her “contract with the Cantabrians.”
It is an agreement to launch a PP government, explained Sáenz de Buruaga, before stressing that the PRC “does not ask for anything in return” as Vox has done.
“Then day-to-day will come, the legislature will necessarily be marked by dialogue”, has acknowledged Sáenz de Buruaga, who will seek “specific agreements based on programmatic coincidences” without “vetoes, without exclusions and without sanitary cordons” because they do not have absolute majority.
The regionalists let the PP govern alone “without ties of any kind” for its “electoral success” and Revilla has advanced that he will have the PRC at his disposal “to support those things that are sensible.”
“When the budgets arrive, naturally, they will have to be negotiated, and the entire legislature will be in this line of collaboration,” the acting president has had an impact.
Better the PP only than “with negative companies”
Revilla has stressed that they think that a PP government is better “only with negative companies” and believes that, beyond facilitating his investiture, whether this support is prolonged “depends on many circumstances”, such as the general elections of 23J.
“How long it lasts will depend on many circumstances, especially on the part of the PP,” he stressed.
In addition, the future president of Cantabria has clarified that this agreement “does not protect silences or protect suspicious conduct”, in reference to the investigation commissions, which “has never been requested or has been on the table” that they not be convened, as The regionalist leader has also maintained, who believes that this “fallacy” that the PRC did not want them has come “from the parties that feel harmed” by this agreement.
The president of the PP wants the investiture session to be “the sooner the better” and would like it to be at the end of the month.
From now on, the constitution of the Parliamentary Board will be negotiated, which the PP wants to be “plural and reflect as much as possible the proportionality and distribution of forces” of the Chamber, with which Revilla has agreed, who has stressed that the PRC, as the second force with the most votes, will be the first opposition party with him at the head at 80 years of age.
Buruaga’s resume
Born in Suances on June 4, 1968, María José Sáenz de Buruaga will be the first woman to preside over Cantabria.
He graduated in Law from the University of Cantabria in 1994 and took his first steps in politics the following year in his municipality, although it was not until 1999 when he dedicated himself exclusively to political activity.
She has been a deputy since then and has served as spokesperson for different areas.
In addition, she has been the Autonomous Secretary of the Popular Party since 2004 and Vice President and Minister of Health and Social Services of the Government of Cantabria between 2011 and 2015, when the PP obtained an absolute majority with Ignacio Diego, whom he succeeded as party leader in Cantabria.