Cartagena, Jul 4 (EFE).- The negotiating table between the PP and Vox for the investiture of Fernando López Miras as president of Murcia held its first meeting this Tuesday, in which both formations have exchanged program proposals without changing their positions of departure.
Vox’s parliamentary spokesman in the Murcia Regional Assembly, José Ángel Antelo, has left it up to López Miras “whether he wants to be Vox’s candidate or not”, since he has ruled out abstaining in the hypothetical second investiture vote if the first will be unsuccessful, since Vox only contemplates yes or no.
“We continue with our hands outstretched”, indicated the person who defined the meeting as “positive” and “fruitful”, since “advances have been made, programs have been exchanged and many meeting points have been found”.
He has reiterated his position of entering the Executive in proportion to the 18% of the votes obtained in the autonomic ones, represented in 9 seats in the Assembly.
“We have not talked about positions or councils”, but rather about programs, but they already signed an investiture agreement with López Miras in 2019 “which was not fulfilled”, he added.
He has shown himself willing to hold a new meeting tomorrow, as he “would love for us to have a president on Friday.”
His PP counterpart, Joaquín Segado, has recognized that convincing Vox to abstain is the main point of the negotiation.
To convince Vox, the PP has proposed developing “sufficient” measures and control bodies so that the agreements “are fulfilled and reflected in the policies made by the Government”, such as a monitoring commission in the Assembly for “effective control ” of what is agreed.
After stressing that 43% of the votes obtained legitimize the PP to govern alone, he has detailed that they have offered Vox an 88-point programmatic agreement “that includes the real problems of the region.”
Among them, there is talk of the “indisputable” continuity of the Tagus-Segura transfer, of regional financing, of protecting families, the elderly and young and the Mar Menor or of the simplification of administrative procedures.
The PP negotiating delegation was headed by López Miras, Segado and the first secretary of the Board of the Chamber, María del Carmen Ruiz and by Vox Antelo, the deputy spokesman for the parliamentary group, Rubén Martínez Alpañez, and the deputy in Congress for Murcia Lourdes Méndez, along with two advisers from the party’s national leadership.
This Thursday and Friday the investiture debate will take place, for which López Miras needs the affirmative vote of at least two Vox deputies to achieve the absolute majority required in the first vote, set at 23 seats, of which the PP counts with 21.
If this first vote is unsuccessful, there will be a second one next Monday, July 10, in which a simple majority is enough, which the PP would achieve with Vox’s abstention.