Santander (EFE).- María José Sáenz de Buruaga (PP) has been sworn in as the first president of Cantabria this Monday in the second round of voting with the abstention of the PRC and the opposition of the PSOE and Vox.
Buruaga, who has had the support of the 15 popular deputies, the abstention of the 8 regionalists and with the refusal of the 8 of the PSOE and the 4 of Vox, has celebrated that after this day “it will cease to be news” that a woman leads the regional government.
The new president of Cantabria, who signed an investiture pact with Miguel Ángel Revilla’s party to leave Vox out of the Executive and govern alone, has warned this formation that it is “too early” to “contrary” by putting ” next to the PSOE and against the will of change of the Cantabrian society”.
The PRC has valued his “democratic loyalty” and has reaffirmed his respect for Revilla for having “dedicated his life to public service with passion” and for having given “a visibility and projection to this land that no one can deny him.”
“You have my gratitude as a Cantabrian and my recognition as a rival”, stressed Buruaga, who has promised good sense, seriousness, dialogue, work, honesty and the ability to reach “regional agreements” because “it is time to unite and overcome blocks and trenches ”. “I will continue to be María”, she has influenced.
Revilla wishes the new president of Cantabria the best
The outgoing president, Miguel Ángel Revilla (PRC), has shown his “good wishes” for the Buruaga Presidency to be successful because “if he does it well we will all benefit” and has charged against Vox, which he has accused of “spreading hoaxes and fallacies about the honor of the PRC” and not “defend the autonomy” of Cantabria, which is why he has justified the abstention of his group to avoid his entry into the Executive.
And he added that he leaves the Presidency “with inner peace” and an “extraordinary conscience”. “I’m looking forward to taking over the office, I’ve felt like a squatter for a month,” he said.
Leticia Díaz (Vox) has considered that the PP-PRC agreement shows a “lack of democratic spirit” for leaving him out of the Government and has doubted Buruaga’s “imposed negotiating spirit”, which he has demanded to give explanations for having chosen to have a “weak government”, instead of agreeing with it.
The general secretary of the PSOE of Cantabria, Pablo Zuloaga, has affirmed that he will make a “constructive but forceful opposition” and “firm” and has assured the PP that the socialists “will be here” to discuss whether this guarantees public services and prevents “the reverse equality policies”.
María José Sáenz de Buruaga will take office this Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. in the regional Parliament and it is expected that throughout this week the composition of its Executive will advance.