The tactical movements, both internal and facing the gallery, began yesterday in Extremadura, drawing the most predictable map. The PP candidate, María Guardiola, will have to negotiate with Vox the conditions of her investiture and if a government coalition is formed. The popular leader requested in the morning the abstention of the PSOE to be able to govern without the support of the ultra-right. But the Socialists rejected this option, which was not on the table and which also clashes with Pedro Sánchez's strategy with the call for generals.
Guardiola put his program on the table as a guide for the negotiations, and in an interview on Canal Extremadura he also asked Podemos to abstain if what he wants is to prevent Vox from having a game on the Board. But obviously it was a toast to the sun.
From Vox, the candidate Ángel Pelayo -who has obtained five deputies- already pointed out on Sunday night his commitment to change in the region, stressing that they are not going to limit themselves to making Guardiola president without further ado. The president of the formation, Santiago Abascal, gave a call to attention to the popular by reminding María Guardiola that the leadership of the PP has bet throughout the campaign for the list with the most votes to govern, which in the case of Extremadura has been the PSOE. Abascal indicated that his party has an outstretched hand to reach agreements with the PP, but stressed that first the popular ones must decide if they want to form a majority with Vox.
From the PSOE there was little to talk about an eventual abstention that would facilitate Guardiola's governability. Nor have there been any gestures from the Socialists to press for his continuity as head of the Board to be facilitated. President Guillermo Fernández Vara already informed his party colleagues yesterday that he is leaving politics and has requested his reinstatement as a forensic doctor, a position to which he is considering returning. The socialists begin a path of change in leadership. If it was already clear beforehand that two antagonistic blocs between the right and the left were being drawn in Extremadura, Sánchez's commitment to call elections and visualize the alliances of the right and the ultra-right have just buried any hypothesis of a pact.
The socialists from Extremadura will analyze today the future scenarios without Fernández Vara, who has governed since 2007 except for the period 2011-2015. Vara had announced that these were his last elections, but what was not foreseen was defeat and, therefore, this early goodbye from the socialist baron.
