Mérida (EFE).- The spokesperson for United for Extremadura, Irene de Miguel, has made the support of her formation for the investiture of the socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara as president of the regional Executive subject to the signing of “a progress government agreement.”
De Miguel, who hopes to meet with Fernández Vara in the coming days to address this offer, has warned that the United States does not intend to “give” him their votes.
The document that they will send to the Socialists this Thursday seeks, in summary, according to the deputy, to move towards a more progressive Extremadura, with more rights for citizens, and a commitment to public services, especially in rural areas.
thirteen proposals
The agreement that United has raised includes thirteen measures in energy, agriculture, forestry, health, education, social services, transportation, public housing, equality or for the deployment of the Law of Historical and Democratic Memory, some of them coincide with some of the PSOE.
In his opinion, it is “fully acceptable to the Socialist Party.”
“I have not the slightest doubt that if the real objective is Extremadura and Extremadura are the left of this region, we will know how to reach an agreement much sooner than the right will do,” he said.
De Miguel has defended the need to reach an agreement as soon as possible so that there is a government that is as stable as possible, since the region cannot be paralyzed for six months when it is “about to lose 400 million euros of European funds”.
Although before the regional elections he advocated that the United States be represented in a possible government with the PSOE, he assured this Wednesday that the “armchairs” are not now a “priority.”
Despite his willingness to reach an agreement for the investiture of Fernández Vara, he believes that this also obeys a national strategy of the PSOE to “corner the Popular Party so that it agrees with Vox as soon as possible.
The worst scenario: the PP-Vox agreement
The “worst scenario” for her, rather than repeating elections, which she sees as possible, would be a government resulting from an agreement between the right and the extreme right and seeing the regional leader of Vox, Ángel Pelayo, at the head of some council or as vice president marking the policies of Extremadura, which “terrifies” him in view of what Vox is doing in other autonomous communities.
He has also referred to the statements by the president of the PP of Extremadura, María Guardiola, on sexist violence, immigration and LGBTI, at the end of Tuesday’s constitutive session in the Assembly.
In his opinion, “he shows a lot of cynicism and the only thing he wants is to whitewash the Popular Party in the face of 23J because it interests them after the agreements that have been reached in Valencia and the Balearic Islands with Vox.”
In this sense, he recalled that they have “recognized Francoists” in their ranks such as the mayor of Guadiana (Badajoz), Antonio Pozo, who comes from Vox, and the pact that the PP recently signed with the formation of Santiago Abascal in Navalmoral de la Mata (Caceres).
And that Guardiola had proposed to Vox the implementation of the parental pin, which means, in his opinion, “throwing away the values of inclusion, equality and diversity”.
According to De Miguel, PSOE, PP and Vox are only thinking about the 23J elections.