In a place in La Mancha, United We Can give the mayoralty to the PP. This strange situation could be a reality in the municipality of La Guardia (Toledo) next Saturday, June 17, when all the town councils are constituted. In this municipality in the region of Mesa de Ocaña and which has a little over 2,000 inhabitants, the PSOE won the elections of 28-M but tied 4 for councilors with the PP. The three councilors of Podemos have the key to governance.
Given this case, what is foreseeable is a pact between the two leftist forces to reach the mayoralty, but in La Guardia, where the PSOE has been ruling for 28 years, the purple candidate, Víctor Hernández, is betting, against the criteria of the party leadership , for reaching an agreement with the PP to create a government junta chaired by the popular candidate, Marta Maroto, with two councilors for each party.
The idea of the purple ones is to agree that the important decisions are taken in said meeting without a casting vote of the mayoress in case of a tie. "Either that decision is taken unanimously or not," Hernández summed up yesterday to the Europa Press agency. And he justified the movement in that during the last term there were numerous legal problems, particularly with regard to dismissals and calls for public employment, which he attributed to the socialist government team.
This same Thursday, the United Podemos candidate has defended that his agreement is "totally legitimate" since in the campaign he promised "over and over again" that the PSOE was not going to govern with his votes and he explained that in order to understand what is happening In his town, it is necessary to know the "management" of the PSOE, to which he has attributed a "disastrous management."
All in all, the pact can be derailed by the pressures that are being exerted from the leaderships of the PSOE and United We Can at the regional level.
Thus, Podemos assured yesterday that it will expel its three councilors if they sign the agreement with the PP. Sources from the purple formation assured EFE that "at the moment, nothing has been signed", but they stressed that the party has transferred to the three mayors elected by United Podemos-IU that "it is not possible to agree with the PP".
For its part, the Castilian-Manchego PSOE of Emiliano García-Page has asked the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for "consistency" and has called on him to "prevent" the pact, at the same time that it has demanded that in the event that this pact get ahead, for consistency, "expel" the PP candidate Marta Maroto, former president of Nuevas Generaciones de Castilla-La Mancha, and the rest of the party's elected councillors. The deputy secretary of the PSOE of Toledo and national deputy, Esther Padilla, has been in charge of making this request to Núñez Feijóo since she is convinced that the president of the 'popular' in Castilla-La Mancha, Paco Núñez, "is not going to act" as, according to what he has stated, "he usually always does.
But Núñez pretends to be Swedish and claims to be unaware of "the details" of the agreement between PP and Podemos in La Guardia, although he acknowledges that "the smaller the municipality, the more it tends to depend on the people and the less on the parties."
The PSOE, with Javier Pasamontes as a candidate, got 575 votes and four councilors, more than 40% support. The PP of Marta Maroto, for its part, collected 463 votes for four councilors; while Víctor Hernández, from Unidas Podemos IU, won three seats after obtaining 349 supports. On Saturday we will leave doubts.
