Alberto Núñez Feijóo sees the veto that María Guardiola has placed on Vox in Extremadura as compatible with the coalition government that Carlos Mazón has agreed to in the Valencian Community. The popular leader has blessed the order of his baroness from Extremadura, who is on his way to leading the community to an electoral repetition because, he assures, the demands of Vox in Mérida are “disproportionate”. “The result of Valencia is not the same as that of Extremadura”, the Galician has defended after participating in an act of the think tank that he has promoted to put together the speech of his party in his attempt to reach Moncloa.
The thesis that Núñez Feijóo has defended is purely numerical. The 8% that Vox achieved in the regional governments of Extremadura is the “most modest result” achieved by those of Santiago Abascal on May 28. In the Valencian Community, the percentage rises to 12%, but the rush there also had to do with the need for the ultra-conservative party to include its candidate, Carlos Flores Juberías, in the general lists after being vetoed by the PP due to his conviction for gender violence. While this is happening, the socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara, who was the candidate with the most votes, has announced his intention to stand for investiture, something he can do thanks to the fact that the socialists control the Presidency of the legislature thanks to the breakup of PP and Vox.
“It is not reasonable that he intends to preside over the Assembly, have more representatives than the PP in the Table and enter the Government”, the president of the PP has abounded, who has focused on the distance between PP and Vox in the Meritense chamber. The popular ones achieved 38% of the votes and 28 seats compared to 8% for Vox and the five regional deputies in which that percentage translates. “It did not make sense”, Núñez Feijóo has abounded, to attend to Vox's requests, although at no time has the Galician mentioned the arguments used by María Guardiola to reject the preferred partners of the PP in the rest of the communities: the denial of violence macho, his bet on immigration and the rejection of policies in defense of the LGTBI collective.
“It has been chosen correctly”, Núñez Feijóo has settled to bless this ambivalence. And it is not the first time it happens. In the PP they have been determined for months to make it clear that within the party there are different ways of seeing politics. The usual dichotomy was that represented by Juanma Moreno, with that more moderate profile, and Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in the most vehement version of the PP. The regional and municipal elections of May 28 changed the axis of this discourse and now it is Guardiola who is on one side, and Mazón, on the other, along with Marga Prohens from the Balearic Islands.. We must not forget that in Palma they have also agreed with Vox so that a leader of the ultra party is the one who presides over the Parliament of the islands.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has assured in his speech that the regional leaders must be the ones who lead the negotiations and avoid an “invasion of national positions” that render the talks that take place at the regional level without effect. This has not been entirely the case, for example, in the investiture of the socialist Jaume Collboni in the Barcelona City Council, which was forged with conversations between Genoa and Ferraz. But Guardiola's story in Extremadura allows the Galician to get rid of the poster that they place on him in the PSOE with his pacts with Vox in some 140 town halls, to which must be added the autonomous pacts.
In this context, the popular leader has chosen to turn his speech towards the economy at the meeting of the Fundación Reformismo 21 chaired by the former Minister of Employment Fátima Báñez. At the event in Madrid, the leader of the PP criticized the “triumphalism” of the central government in economic matters. “The average Spaniard has practically the same income as 15 years ago,” said Núñez Feijóo, who has warned against this stagnation. The Galician has defended that there are EU countries with a wealth “well below” that of Spain that will exceed the country's GDP in the coming years. This is the case, he said, of Hungary, Croatia or Poland. This, in addition, will cause the richest countries “to move further away”.