Santander (EFE) insisted that he would only agree to govern in coalition.
The PP asks Vox to draft a document with the “general” issues that it considers “essential” for Cantabria, as the PRC has done, which will allow Sáenz de Buruaga to become the first president of the autonomous community in exchange, among other things, that Vox does not enter the Executive.
Of course, this text could not be “a government program”, has pointed out the popular spokesman, Íñigo Fernández, who together with the number 2 of the PP of Cantabria, María José González Revuelta, has met on the afternoon of this Monday in Parliament with the Vox candidate for the Presidency, Leticia Díaz, and the party’s regional president, Emilio del Valle, who is also an elected councilor in the Santander City Council and, once again, head of the Congress list.
This meeting, which lasts almost an hour, is the second that both formations have held after 28M, when the PP obtained 15 deputies -six more than in 2019- and Vox doubled its parliamentarians to four.
Is there a chance of a first-round investiture?
When leaving the meeting, Íñigo Fernández explained that the popular ones are asking Vox to allow a PP government by voting in favor or abstaining from Buruaga’s investiture.
“We wanted to treat the two political formations with the same procedure,” Fernández pointed out, while González Revuelta specified that, if PRC or Vox voted in favor, Sáenz de Buruaga would be invested in the first vote, although in principle neither of the two formations intend to do so.
Fernández has assessed that Vox “perhaps contemplates abstention”, which, he added, would allow the PP to enter “in a scenario in which two parties have allowed the investiture and not just one”.
Emilio del Valle has lamented that the PP does not accept “a coalition government or a stable majority” because, in his opinion, the citizens “have wanted to put an end to Revilla’s policies in Cantabria” with their vote at the polls.
“We add a sufficient majority (PP-Vox) to form a stable coalition government that gives a good image and attracts investors because these minority governments, which have to negotiate, generate a lot of insecurity and investors do not like that,” he stressed. .
As in the first meeting, Vox has stressed that “in principle it is only here to form a government that responds to the will” of its voters: “throw out Revilla and regional-socialist policies, and form a stable government.”
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Taking advantage of the meeting, the PP has offered Vox to occupy one of the two secretariats of the Parliamentary Bureau, in which there will presumably be two members of the Popular Party and one of the other three parties represented in the Chamber: PRC, PSOE and Vox , who has appreciated the offer.
The popular understand that the composition of the table must be plural and, yes, that it is up to them to propose the president of Parliament.
“But the main thing is that all the parties that have obtained representation have their voice and vote at the table and that the plurality that the polls have produced is also seen at the Table,” Fernández added.
The popular expects that the investiture session will be at the end of next week, once Parliament is constituted this Thursday.