The 33 Vox deputies continue to be available to the Popular Party so that Alberto Núñez Feijóo tries to be sworn in as Prime Minister. If yesterday —after a traumatic parliamentary session for the right-wing— the ultra leader, Santiago Abascal, did not want to clarify whether he maintained his unconditional offer to the popular, today the general secretary, Ignacio Garriga, has assured that support for the conservative candidate will maintains.
Everything has been left in a disagreement that has not lasted even 24 hours. Those of Vox were "perplexed" yesterday after the Popular Party decided not to lend them their votes to achieve a vice presidency —as they intended— at the Table of the Congress of Deputies. After the leadership of the Popular Party learned of the pre-agreement reached between PSOE and Junts to take over the majority of the governing body of Congress, the popular called the extreme right to inform them that they did not have their support. In this way, the Popular Party was left with four seats on the Table.
But the photograph that remained in the Hemicilo was that of a divided right, incapable of reaching an agreement even to distribute the seats in said body, as the PSOE and Sumar did. And it is that Vox decided to vote for its candidate Ignacio Gil Lázaro —despite knowing that they had no choice— in response to the "arrogance" of the popular bench.
At the end of the session, Abascal did not clearly respond to whether he maintained the offer of his 33 deputies to the Popular Party for the investiture session that Alberto Núñez Feijóo is seeking. In fact, he commented to the journalists in the corridors that the direction of the vote would be kept until he communicated it to Felipe VI during the round of consultations that begins next week. The far-right leader, however, did try to downplay that "offense", calling on the Popular Party to hold talks.
"We are going to continue with our hands outstretched, conveying a message of hope to all Spaniards," Garriga assured during an interview this Thursday on The Ana Rosa Program. Of course, he insisted that "VOX does not give away in any case the votes: in an act of generosity and patriotism we demand to recover institutional neutrality and recover democratic normality”. Precisely yesterday, Abascal questioned whether the Popular Party intended to recover democratic normality by excluding the third political outsider of the Congress of Deputies from the Table.
