Cartagena, Jul 6 (EFE).- Vox has declared the investiture session to which the president of the Autonomous Community, Fernando López Miras, will undergo this Thursday failed, after not resuming negotiations yesterday with the popular, whom they accuse of having turned the parliamentary debate into “the start of the electoral campaign in Murcia by decision of Alberto Núñez Feijóo”.
This has been stated by the deputy spokesman for the Vox parliamentary group in the Regional Assembly, Rubén Martínez Alpañez, in an unscheduled appearance before the media moments before the session began.
For Alpañez, today’s is “an act of propaganda, more than an investiture”, accusing the PP candidate to preside over the Government of Spain to “usurp the powers” of the Region of Murcia for mere “electoral interest”, “showing a clear ignorance of what is happening.
“It has been proposed that we come to a supposed investiture without the necessary support for López Miras to be sworn in as president of the Region of Murcia,” Alpañez stressed. The PP has 21 seats, but it needs to have 23 votes for the absolute majority required for the investiture. To do this, it would be enough for two of the nine Vox deputies to vote in favor.
Alpañez has reiterated that Vox “would like to vote yes” and that a “strong government” be formed with the PP that “represents more than 60% of the citizens”, but “the Popular Party is not for the job”.
For this reason, Vox will only vote yes or no to the investiture, ruling out a possible abstention that would allow López Miras to be invested in a second vote, which will take place next Monday, since only the support of a simple majority would be necessary on this occasion.
The Vox regional deputy has regretted that Núñez Feijóo is guided “by his electoral interest” preventing “the region from starting to move”, because since last May 28 Vox has been with an outstretched hand, offering a negotiation based on programmatic agreements and with the presence of Vox in the Government, as a guarantee that the breach of the previous investiture agreement between PP and Vox in the last legislature will not be repeated.
Alpañez has confirmed that yesterday, Wednesday, there was an exchange of calls between PP and Vox, but the popular ones “wanted to talk about something that was totally far from what we had previously agreed on what we had to address in that meeting.”