The PNV slams the door definitively on Feijóo: he will not even listen to his government offer without Vox and a position on the Table

The PNV slams the door definitively on the possibility of making Alberto Núñez Feijóo president after the step aside of Vox. The Basque nationalist formation maintains its no to the investiture after those of Santiago Abascal have given up demanding to enter the PP Government in exchange for their support.

“On July 24, the Euzkadi Buru Batzar established its position with crystal clarity. Given the attempt of some political and media actors, both in the Basque Country and in Spain, to build an alternative reality, we consider it opportune and convenient to refresh their memory”, the group led by Andoni Ortuzar pointed out in a tweet that links to another that they published in the same social network two weeks ago.

In said previous message, the PNV explained that its president had telephoned the winner of the elections that night, who “had tried to contact him previously throughout the day.”. During the conversation, they explained, he transferred the “refusal” of his party to “start conversations with a view to facilitating his investiture”, although they did not go into detail about the reasons.

The PP had gone up a gear and pressed the accelerator after the step to one side given by Vox. Those of Feijóo were trying to articulate a “solitary, broad and strong” government that would allow Pedro Sánchez's plan to reach the investiture with the support of the independence movement to be neutralized despite not being the most voted on 23-J.

“There will only be PP ministers”, the popular general coordinator, Elías Bendodo, asserted this Monday, who has accused Sánchez of “promoting” the blockade by not even congratulating the winner of the elections: “To sit down and talk, you have to recognize the victory of the PP”.

In the eyes of the PP, Vox's decision to facilitate the investiture of Feijóo and not demand to be part of the Council of Ministers “changes the rules of the game” and forces the parties that denied their support for the PP, such as the PNV, to reconsider their position. “It facilitates a possible investiture,” Bendodo opined in an interview in Cope.

“The rest of the parties have run out of excuses,” sources from the popular leadership acknowledge this Monday in the pages of EL MUNDO to celebrate how the passage of those from Abascal was a boost for Feijóo's aspirations. An objective that was still very far away, but that advanced despite Ferraz's attempts to trip, they said, the investiture of the popular leader.

However, 24 hours after the political movement, the PNV has completely cooled the expectations of Genoa. The Genoa count gives the PP a clear advantage over the PSOE: today Feijóo would only need six more seats to be president, while Sánchez, to achieve this, will have to reach an agreement and accommodate 24 formations in his executive, according to Bendodo specified.

In fact, with the decisive Vox statement this Sunday, the PP definitively closed the door to including any other party in the government equation and this Monday Bendodo promised a Council of Ministers that, despite being only made up of members of the PP, was “broad” and had room for “many sensibilities”.