Palma, (EFE).- Next Thursday, July 6, the Majorcan Marga Prohens (PP) will become the new president of the Balearic Islands and will exercise power alone with the external support of Vox, a partner that has highlighted this Thursday that “has the key to governance” of this autonomous community.
The president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne (Vox), announced this Thursday that the investiture plenary session will take place on Monday with the intervention of the only candidate, the popular Marga Prohens.
After the agreement closed by PP and Vox, Santiago Abascal’s formation will abstain in the second vote, so Prohens will be president next Thursday and will govern without any Vox minister in his cabinet, a promise he made during the electoral campaign.
A pact of more than a hundred points
PP and Vox have signed a 110-point government agreement that, among other issues, defends the free choice of schools and the vehicular language in education, Catalan or Spanish, the repeal of the historical memory law, the reduction of taxes and the defense of private property against squatting.
In addition, the trans Balearic law will be eliminated, a family protection law will be approved and minors will be able to enter bullfighting events, if their parents want it.
After the Board of Spokesmen this Thursday, the parties have analyzed the political situation.
The representative of the PP, Sebastià Sagreras, has maintained that the new solo government of the popular responds “to the mandate of the polls.”
Faced with criticism from the opposition that the Balearic Islands “will go back 40 years” due to the PP’s pact with an extreme right-wing party, Sagreras responded that the left-wing parties believed that Vox would form part of the Balearic Executive, which ultimately will not happen, otherwise hence its “drama”.
For its part, Vox has assured that it will give “stability” to the new Government, while warning that any political initiative depends on its votes and that “it has the key to governability.”
This has been stated by the parliamentary spokesperson, Idioa Ribas, who has described the agreement as “historic”, which “will change many policies” deployed by the socialist Francina Armengol, including the “separatists”.
For its part, the main opposition party, the PSOE, has criticized the fact that the new Executive of the PP “accepts all the postulates” of Vox and has warned that the new legislature will mean an “8-year setback” after the progressive governments of Armengol.
Abascal warns Feijóo: “The pact in the Balearic Islands without Vox in the Government is useless for other territories”
Salamanca (EFE).- The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has warned this Thursday that the pact reached in the Balearic Islands, where Vox’s abstention will allow a PP government alone, will not work for other territories.
“What has been useful for the Balearic Islands is not going to be useful in any way for other territories,” Abascal said in reference to his support for the PP without entering the Government in statements to the media during his visit to Salamanca.
The Vox leader has insisted that “the agreement in the Balearic Islands is different because there was “a very clear risk of separatism entering the Government again” of the Balearic Islands and his party intends to end the imposition of Catalan in the classroom.
And he added: “The PP in the Balearic Islands has always behaved respectfully towards Vox voters, it has not insulted them as has happened in Extremadura.”
Agreements in the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands
However, it has avoided confronting the PP and, on the contrary, it has concluded the agreements in the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands because they mean, it has stressed, “a change of course against the imposition of Catalan”, with “offices that will monitor respect for linguistic freedoms.
Santiago Abascal has also avoided arguing with the PP about whether occupying the Vice-Presidency of the Government will be a condition for supporting Alberto Núñez Feijóo if they join after 23-J, by settling the issue by saying that he is running for the Presidency.
“I am running for the Presidency of the Government, not for the Vice Presidency of the Government. He (Feijóo) says that he wants to govern with an absolute majority, I also want to govern with an absolute majority ”, Abascal said.
Abascal has thus responded to a question about whether holding the Vice-presidency of the Government will be the condition that will put Feijóo to support him, just as it was in the Junta de Castilla y León, where Vox has Juan García-Gallardo in that position.
Feijóo said on Wednesday in “El hormiguero”, on Antena 3, that he has already thought about who his vice president will be, emphasizing that it will be a woman, which would affect the hypothetical role that Abascal could play in that cabinet designed by the leader of the PP.