Santander (EFE).- María José Saénz de Buruaga (PP) will be president of Cantabria on Monday after failing to obtain the support of the absolute majority of Parliament amid reproaches from the PSOE, which has accused her of “giving herself over to the extreme right” and from Vox, which demands a coalition government, but the pledge of loyalty from the PRC if the popular fulfill their agreement.
Miguel Ángel Revilla’s party will guarantee this Monday that Buruaga’s candidacy achieves the necessary simple majority to become the first president of Cantabria ten legislatures later, a mandate in which the popular hopes to have the support of PRC and Vox to move forward its policies, since it will govern in a minority.
Vox, which had not revealed the meaning of its vote, although it had anticipated that it would not support the PP candidate, has voted against her investiture, criticizing the popular agreement with the PRC and claiming that its Executive “is born very weak ” for not having wanted to form a coalition Executive.
The 15 deputies of the PP – there are 35 in total in the regional Parliament (15 from PP, 8 from PRC, 8 from PSOE and 4 from Vox) – have been the only ones who have voted in favor of Buruaga’s candidacy, which on Monday it will be sworn in by a simple majority thanks to the abstention of the PRC.
The PP reaches out to PRC and Vox
During the debate, which has lasted for four hours, the PP has reached out to the PRC and Vox to reach agreements over the next four years because, in his opinion, between the two formations they are in a position to support “80 percent ” of his electoral program, has assured his spokesman, Íñigo Fernández.
“I do not want a pact with Vox because I am not Vox,” said the future president of Cantabria, who has aspired to govern “very accompanied” over the next four years, reaching agreements with both formations because “she is not afraid of speaking nor talk”.
Of course, he has warned that “nobody is going to impose” his future government “his ideological agenda” or limit his ability to reach agreements. “I’ll take everything that unites us, let’s not look for what separates us,” Buruaga asked.
The PRC will be “loyal”, although it doubts a pact after 23J
The outgoing president of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla, has guaranteed that the PRC will be “loyal” to the PP if it fulfills its agreement because he prefers that Buruaga “govern alone” rather than “badly accompanied” by Vox, although he has expressed doubts regarding a possible entry of Vox to the Cantabrian Government if after 23J there is an agreement between Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal.
“What we have signed is common sense, there is no cheating or cardboard,” Revilla defended, who recommended Buruaga “follow the route, because everything is perfectly designed.” “A little good that he does it, four extraordinary years await him,” he said.
The PSOE accuses Buruaga of “surrendering himself” to Vox
The general secretary of the PSOE of Cantabria, Pablo Zuloaga, has accused Buruaga of “surrendering to the extreme right” and adopting “its ideological framework” and has invited him “not to hide” his ideology.
Faced with a “catastrophic discourse” of the popular in economic or industrial matters, he has claimed socialist action in the Cantabrian Government and has indicated that Buruaga will enter the Executive “without his own projects, without new ideas.”
And it has reaffirmed its role in the opposition against the PP government and the foreseeable occasional support from the rest of the groups. “I will ensure the rights of the Cantabrians and the continuity of the projects”, he stressed.
“He has fallen into the PRC trap,” says Vox
Leticia Díaz (Vox) has opined that the agreement signed for the investiture of Buruaga between regionalists and popular “does not support a four-year government” and “only prolongs the policies” that have led Cantabria “to a fragile economic situation and to a future inconsistent”.
“He has fallen into the PRC trap due to a lack of ambition and political height,” he criticized.
After considering Buruaga “the same” as Revilla, he has warned him that he is agreeing with a party, the PRC, which “has consented to corruption for twenty years” in the Ministry of Public Works, due to the alleged plot of irregularities that it maintains in imprisonment of a senior official.