María Guardiola spoke of repeating the elections after slamming the door on Vox, and now the electoral calendar is in the hands of the PSOE. The announcement of the still acting president of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, that he will present himself for the investiture leads to this repetition. The lack of agreement between PP and Vox gave the presidency of the Extremadura Assembly to the socialist Blanca Martín, who now has the power to play with the dates as best suits her, which will possibly lead to the debate being held in the middle of the campaign electoral, a few days after 23-J.
Fernández Vara justified his decision to appear for the investiture, despite the fact that he will almost certainly have more votes against him than in his favor, by assuring that PP and Vox "have failed in their attempts to reach an agreement" and for that reason he is claiming them “That they allow the most voted list to govern”, as Alberto Núñez Feijóo advocates.
"Let Extremadura have a government, let whoever won the elections be able to govern," stressed Fernández Vara, who recalled that the PSOE was "the most voted list" and is "the only government option at the moment", to at the same time that he urged the PP and Vox to "stop playing with Extremadura".
Ruled out, both by the PP and the PSOE, to abstain for an investiture by Vara or Guardiola, there could only be a president in Extremadura if Guardiola obtained the votes of Vox with support that should be free, because the decision of the candidate to govern solo is firm. In the PP they assure that she is not going to retract and has the support of Feijóo, who yesterday endorsed both the "no" in Extramadura, and governing in coalition in the Valencian Community.
The numbers leave no choice. PSOE and PP tied at 28 seats, and then Vox has five seats and Podemos-IU, four. Vara, in an investiture, would obtain the support of the leftist votes, but there would be 33 against, united not to make Vara president, but not to invest Guardiola.
Since the Tuesday that the Assembly was constituted, its president has 15 days to propose a candidate, who must undergo the investiture in another 15 days, which places it around July 20. If in two months from that first vote, which is assumed to have failed, there is no agreement, elections will be called for November.
That is the most likely scenario because Vox does not seem to be willing to support Guardiola. Yesterday, the exchange of accusations between Feijóo and the leader of the ultra party, Santiago Abascal, rose in tone. The president of the PP accused the national leadership of Vox of interfering in the negotiations and making impossible the agreement that left the ultra-right out of the government, but granted Abascal's party the presidency of the Assembly, a secretariat and even an autonomous senator, PP sources assured La Vanguardia. After consulting with Madrid management, Vox rejected the deal. In the PP they maintain that they aspired to these positions and also to enter the government, which for Feijóo were "exorbitant demands." Especially if one takes into account that Vox in Extremadura only got 8% of the votes, while the PP got 39%.
Abascal blamed Feijóo's "ambition" for frustrating the alternative in Extremadura, while accusing the popular candidate of spreading "lies about Vox" and "contributing to the demonization of the formation." In an interview on Canal Sur Radio, the ultra party leader acknowledged that “macho violence exists. We do not deny it”, but he made it clear that Vox will not hand over its votes to the PP after “some insult and demonize us… we are not willing to do that”, he said.
