If nothing remedies it, in November there will be electoral repetition in Extremadura. And from the words of the PP candidate for the presidency of the region, María Guardiola, it does not seem that they can be avoided. Guardiola has shown himself willing to repeat the elections if finally Vox, who yesterday resigned to accept the presidency of the Chamber of Extremadura, a position that has ended up in the hands of the PSOE, does not support her investiture without entering the future government.
And it is that the popular leader wanted to make it clear that this will not happen: "I cannot let into government those who deny sexist violence, those who use the bold stroke, those who are dehumanizing immigrants and those who display a canvas and they throw an LGTBI flag in the trash", alluding to a large banner that Vox has mounted on a facade of a building in Madrid.
Guardiola, who has refused to facilitate the investiture of the acting president, the socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara, despite the fact that he received the most votes on 28-M, has charged hard against Santiago Abascal's party which, in his opinion, "seems that forces us to go to elections". "If we have to go, we will go to the elections", has sentenced the PP candidate, who has explained that her formation offered Vox, in addition to the presidency of the Chamber, a secretary and an autonomous senator. An offer that Guardiola has considered more than good for a party that has 8% of the votes but that Vox did not think was enough.
From there, the PP candidate has charged against Vox, of which she has said that they have "put their arrogance before the interests of the people of Extremadura", that "they have not been able to see beyond their navel", which they intend to take for Extremadura "outdated measures".
"I have only found tripping, disunity and anxiety" in Vox, Guardiola has continued, who has accused the far-right party of making the decisions outside of Extremadura. "Everything has been remotely controlled from Madrid," Guardiola has assured, referring to Jorge Buxadé, vice president of Political Action of the Abascal formation, who has been in the constitutive session of the Extremadura Assembly as "foreman of the feudal lord."
"The people of Extremadura do not deserve this embarrassment," lamented Guardiola, who despite everything has declared herself "very calm" in the face of a practically pre-election scenario that she has blamed so much on the PSOE for, according to her, wanting to remain in power "of artificial way", such as Vox, who, in his opinion, "want to achieve in the offices what they have not achieved at the polls". "Out of respect for this land and out of respect for all those who have asked for change, I have done absolutely everything in my power, but I can assure you that my promises, much less my land, are a bargaining chip for nothing," concluded the popular leader in his intervention before the media.
Shortly before these statements, and as a result of the lack of agreement between PP and Vox, the socialist Blanca Martín Delgado has been elected president of the Extremadura Assembly after receiving 32 votes, the 28 deputies from her group and the four from United for Extremadura . The PP candidate, Abel Bautista, has obtained 28, the same number of seats that his parliamentary group has, and that of Vox, Ángel Pelayo Gordillo Moreno, that of the five deputies that his group has. Blanca Martín Delgado, from the Socialist Group, will once again occupy the position of president of the Assembly of Extremadura in this XI Legislature.
After that, the political spokesman for Vox, Jorge Buxadé, has asked the PP to "attend to reality" in Extremadura and has considered that "there is time to continue negotiating" with a view to the formation of the regional government, in which they want to have presence. In this way, Jorge Buxadé has highlighted that the vote that allowed Martín to be elected president of the Legislature of Extremadura reveals "what happens when positions are maintained far from political reality", to which he added that, in Extremadura, reality says that Vox is "necessary" and "essential" to build an alternative to "this left that demolishes dams."
