The acting president of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, has had no choice but to give in and make an extreme decision against what he has been emphatically maintaining since the elections of May 28, in which he obtained 21 deputies. , only two of the absolute majority. In the end, he has no other possibility than to offer the president of Vox in the Murcian community, José Ángel Antelo, entry into the government with two councils; that of Development and that of Security, Interior and Emergencies, and the vice-presidency of the Autonomous Community.
After three months of uncertainty, López Miras has leaned towards the solution that he considers "less bad", which has led him to agree "to avoid an electoral repetition", set for October 25. The PP has been forcing the machine since 28-M and delaying a meeting with those of Santiago Abascal, but time was running out since the next September 7 is the deadline to appoint president.
Very significant was the agreement that was reached on Friday late in the afternoon, sealed in a photograph that both political leaders took on Saturday morning and published on their social networks posing in a relaxed way before a coffee in a hotel in Murcia. . The pact came after Vox rejected the extension of the urban moratorium, decreed by the PP government, on the grounds that the buildings do not pollute.
It was clear that Vox was not going to give in to the pressures that, from San Esteban, the seat of the regional government, they had been exerting since May for the far-right party to abstain or vote in favor of the investiture of López Miras. It has not been like that and now both formations are condemned to understand each other and project normality after months of reproaches.
The PP of Murcia has been questioned for ignoring realities such as the fact that this was the only autonomous community in which Vox won a general election (2019), perhaps because of how it dealt with the problem related to a Mar Menor that is dying due to everyone's passivity.
Although at first Vox's powers seem low-profile, it should be remembered that Fomento is in charge of the Territorial Planning Plan for the Vertiente del Mar Menor Basin, housing, mobility and the management of a large part of the European funds that come to the community.
It may be that, once installed in the regional government, those of Vox will manage to cohabit with the PP, but there are certain issues, in which those of Abascal have always had an impact, that have created friction between both formations. In addition to the Mar Menor, the problem of immigration, his rejection of the 2030 Agenda, his denial of climate change and the parental pin, among others.
Both leaders have explained that now the so-called programmatic agreement remains to be resolved, which will surely include a possible modification of the Mar Menor law, one of Vox's banners during the electoral campaign. Another of the issues that Antelo will probably put on the table will be to review the subsidies to unions and social agents.
The deputy spokesman for the Vox Parliamentary Group in the Regional Assembly, Rubén Martínez, confirmed on Friday that the talks with the PP have finally taken place "after the change in attitude of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who viewed it favorably, as did our President Abascal, that there are fluid meetings and points of collaboration between Vox and the Popular Party”.
The last legislature López Miras governed in coalition after in March 2021 he faced a motion of no confidence that raised the foundations of the government and that led him to maintain the chair with the support of several Ciudadanos deputies and three former Vox deputies. An experience that for the popular has not been "at all positive" and that they have fought, without success, to prevent it from being repeated now.
