The PP rejects the offer of the PSOE in Castilla-La Mancha to respect the most voted list in the main cities

On Saturday, June 17, the town councils are constituted to elect their mayors. With many governments still to be decided and pending agreements between different forces. In Castilla-La Mancha, the PSOE has made an offer to the PP to govern the list with the most votes in the main cities, so that both formations would equally distribute these towns: Toledo, Guadalajara and Talavera for the Socialists; Albacete, Ciudad Real and Puertollano for the popular. But the formation that Paco Núñez directs in this community rejects the offer.

“Any alternative that involves a party that claims to be in government, such as the PP, allying itself with a radical party, such as Vox, is not going to be good for coexistence and I believe that we must fight for the model of coexistence facilitates governance for all”, has stated the president of the socialist group in the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha, Fernando Mora.

The answer that the Socialists have found is that the PP does not accept this approach because it was rejected at the national level by Pedro Sánchez when Alberto Núñez Feijóo did it.

The sum of PP and Vox would snatch the mayoralty of Toledo from the PSOE, despite the fact that the socialists were the most voted force, since with United We Can they would add 12 councilors compared to the 13 on the right. A situation identical to that which occurs in Guadalajara. The Socialists led the count with 11 councillors, but PP and Vox have 13. Not even adding the party seat to Guadalajara you have to love it would be enough.

Also in Talavera the PSOE won, with 12 seats. But PP and Vox reach 13.

“We, in Castilla-La Mancha, continue to maintain the most voted list, that the PP let the most voted list govern, which I believe is ultimately reasonable, to the extent that the citizens are the ones who have stated who wanted to govern them”, pointed out Mora.

“When Mr. Feijóo spoke about the list with the most votes, we thought he was serious, and we believe and want to believe that he still has some seriousness left,” said the socialist leader, who has asked the PP to make “a serious reflection ” about the future he wants for the citizenry.

This approach is part of the strategy proposed by the acting mayor of Albacete, the socialist, Emilio Sáez, who has already hinted that he will bet on abstention in the second vote on Saturday -in the first he will vote for himself- so that the PP candidate, Manuel Serrano, is sworn in without the need for Vox.

Pact Podemos-PP in La Guardia?

There is another municipality that worries the PSOE. It's The Guard. The Socialists believe that a pact between Podemos and the PP could be being forged to wrest the mayoralty from the Socialists. Before these suspicions, they ask the popular to define themselves and not to make “outlandish, strange and rare”. They say in the PSOE that, in addition, the head of the list presented by the PP is a neighbor of another town and the rest of the members are “paratroopers” who are not even residents of La Guardia.

“There is no government because they vote on Saturday and the negotiations are open until then. In addition, Podemos has never agreed with the PP nor will it do so, neither in La Guardia nor anywhere”, they have opposed from Podemos Castilla-La Mancha. Sources of the purple formation have exposed to Efe that the three councilors that the formation has obtained will be expelled if they sign a government pact with the PP. They have stressed that the party has transferred to the three mayors elected by United Podemos-IU that “it is not possible to agree with the PP”.

However, the candidate of Unidas-Podemos, Víctor Hernández, has confirmed in a message to the bases of the party that he intends to reach an agreement with the Popular Party for the investiture this Saturday; an agreement that in any case is unauthorized by the leadership of the party at the regional level.

In this message, to which Europa Press has had access, it would be agreed that “all important decisions are made in the Governing Board”, where each party will have two members and in which there will be no casting vote by the mayoress in the event of a tie.. “That is to say, either it is taken unanimously or that decision is not adopted.”

The Mayor's Office, by virtue of this pact, would go to the PP candidate, Marta Maroto -former president of Nuevas Generaciones in Castilla-La Mancha-. “We have managed to have a very important weight in the councils and all the important decisions will first pass through our hands. We have had to cede the mayoralty to Marta, the candidate of the Popular Party. This agreement is the maximum that we have been able to achieve after weeks of a lot of pressure from both sides and something like this with the PSOE would have been impossible,” Hernández justifies.