Vox plants the Balearic PP in the first meeting that both formations had to hold in the Balearic Islands to close an investiture pact that allows the 'popular' Marga Prohens to be the new president of the community. The PP got 26 deputies in the last elections, but the absolute majority is at 30, so it needs to negotiate with the 8 Vox deputies to get at least one abstention since Prohens alone has more votes than the left as a whole .
The first meeting was to be held this Wednesday, but Vox has not appeared because the presence of Prohens in the negotiations was not expected. Vox has the advice of a trusted person from Santiago Abascal, who has traveled to the islands to advise on the negotiations. The far-right formation considers it disrespectful to its voters that the candidate to preside over the Government is not in the negotiations.
The PP has already indicated repeatedly that it does not want to include any representative of Vox in the future executive. For Prohens to be president, an abstention of the 8 Vox deputies in the second vote is enough. The PP candidate wants to assert that she does not need a yes and thus lower the expectations of Abascal's, but she acknowledges that her support will not come for free.
One of the PP negotiators, Antoni Costa, has already recognized that the 'popular' will have to pay a toll to achieve Vox's abstention. On the table are the concessions in the program and the possibility that Vox ends up presiding over the Balearic Parliament. These are the two issues that should be negotiated at the meeting that has been aborted.
In the PP they do not make any comments, but they believe that the blockade has to do with the presence of a negotiator sent by Abascal, which leaves the party leader in the Islands, Jorge Campos, without autonomy to reach agreements. No date has been set to resume negotiations, which will basically deal with aspects related to language.
Vox has openly called for the repeal of the language normalization law, which the PP approved when Gabriel Cañellas governed, in the first legislature, in addition to changes in the Balearic Islands education law so that both Spanish and Catalan are vehicular languages in the teaching. Vox representatives have also openly called for the closure of the regional television station of the Balearic Islands, IB3, but it does not seem that this is a basic requirement for the agreement.
