Murcia, Jul 5 (EFE) produced the first exchange of documents, and an immobility in the positions was verified that, less than 24 hours before the plenary session, persists this Wednesday.
According to the electoral law of Murcia, a community in which the PP won on May 28 with 43 percent of the votes and obtained 21 of the 45 deputies in the Chamber, an absolute majority is needed in the first vote (it will be this Friday). and the simple second, something to which the candidate and president since 2017 is bound to submit next Monday because Vox has already announced its vote against.
Sources from the PP and Vox have confirmed to EFE that today the meeting held yesterday for two hours at the headquarters of the regional Parliament, led by the top regional leaders of both parties, Fernando López Miras and José Ángel Antelo, and during which the “popular” offered a programmatic pact made up of 88 strategic points for the Region of Murcia in terms of health, environment, infrastructure, education and social affairs.
The agreement proposal, based on the program with which the PP attended the regional elections in May, will not be made public until a pronouncement has been made by Vox, as recognized by the Popular Party, although they insist that It is an “open” document to contributions from Santiago Abascal’s party in order to improve it, even, and achieve his abstention.
Less than 24 hours after López Miras presents his government program to the Chamber to try, on Friday, to be sworn in as president by 23 favorable votes, the “crux” of Murcian governance is in “armchairs”, as the candidate affirms when They ask him about Vox’s demands, or to accept his programmatic agreement.
In fact, in statements to Antena 3 collected by EFE, the acting president insisted this morning that the “resounding” result of the PP in the elections and the fact that there is no alternative on the left to form a government (PSOE has 13 seats and IU-Podemos 2) lead him to legitimize a solitary government of his party, as he promised to form, during the electoral campaign, if he obtained a “sufficient” majority.
“Throughout the entire campaign I said that if they voted for me with a sufficient majority to govern, winning more seats than the entire left together and close to an absolute majority, I would do so; and the people of Murcia gave me that confidence”, underlined López Miras before adding that the third best result for the PP in Spain was obtained in Murcia, there is no alternative in the progressive bloc, and the situation is different from that of other regions.
He has warned that it would be “very bad” for the Region of Murcia if Vox blocked the governance of this region and led it to a repetition of the elections by voting “no” to his investiture together with IU-Podemos and PSOE.
Given the proximity of the generals, he has denied that Murcia is a laboratory for national politics, although he acknowledges that it could be “a mirror”, and has stressed that the president of his party and candidate for the generals on the 23rd has given him, like the rest of the regional leaders, full “autonomy” to try to form a government.
Unless there is a call from the PP to Vox before 12 in the morning this Thursday, when the debate will start with the presentation of the government program by the candidate, the talks between the two parties are on hold and will resume, at priori, the weekend to achieve, at least, the two abstentions from the Abascal formation that the president-elect needs.
Vox sources insist to EFE that they will not give their abstention in exchange for nothing because the PP breached its government pact in the last legislature, they assure that they “will not cut up” the vote of their nine deputies, and warn that the immobility of the PP It obeys a strategy of the national leadership that will change after the general elections, which would lead to having to use the two-month period that is now open to hold new investiture debates or, in the worst case, new regional elections if both parties remain firm in their position after that time.
López Miras said today: “What I am going to try to do is be as generous as possible in all areas”, something that has resulted in the last 24 hours in the transfer of the presidencies of the parliamentary media commissions environment, yesterday, and industry, this morning.