They have known for months in the Region of Murcia that what happens in national politics has an echo in territorial negotiations. That the 28-M outlined a panorama, the 23-J another and the difficult constitutive session in Congress for the right, this Thursday, another. And that all this directly affects the relationship between the Popular Party and Vox in Murcia, where the drums of the electoral repetition sound increasingly close.

The week has been tough for the forces that make up the ideological spectrum of the right. Alberto Núñez Feijóo entered the Lower House for the first time on Thursday as leader of the popular deputies and hoped to achieve a minimum of 171 support to make Cuca Gamarra president of Congress.

By controlling the two chambers, the PP would take a giant step in its objective of being in charge of forming the Government. He came out with just 139 votes after denying Vox a seat on the Board, which resulted in a resounding break with those of Santiago Abascal.

Now, despite the fact that in Vox they rule out that this distancing could affect support for a hypothetical investiture of Feijóo, the complex relationship between both forces can mark the political future of the coming weeks.

Not only at the national level: the Region of Murcia is the only autonomy still mired in the blockade and without forming a government, and precisely the PP and Vox are the leading actors in this delicate situation.

The deadline to extend the negotiations, which are already approaching 90 days with hardly any progress, ends on September 7. However, there are more and more voices that see the situation between the two parties as irresolvable and assume that it will not be necessary to reach that date to assume that the people of Murcia will have to go to the polls again.

Encounter

The clash between Feijóo and Abascal this week, in fact, ended up truncating the little hope that existed in the Murcian negotiating teams of reaching an agreement. In the environment of Fernando López Miras, as the days go by they are closer to the idea of electoral repetition.

Even other territorial barons of the PP advise him to return to the polls. If he does, the leader of the PP will aspire to achieve an absolute majority that on this occasion has been close to. The internal calculations that it manages thus affirm it.

In addition, Genoa’s national strategy involves putting land in the middle with Vox. EL MUNDO told it this Saturday: Feijóo has transferred to his barons the slogan of “not giving up a single one” with those of Abascal to approach positions with the PNV in the coming weeks in the face of a hypothetical investiture.

And the Region of Murcia, as the only point where the negotiations are still in the air, has therefore become a more than important enclave to execute Feijóo’s plan. In other words, the national leadership of the PP is committed to López Miras’s relationship with Vox being more similar to that of his neighbor to the south, Juanma Moreno, than to that of his neighbor to the east, Carlos Mazón.

However, the last word will be the Murcian leader. In Vox they accuse him precisely of being the main architect of the blockade and of taking more than a month without contacting the regional leader of the party, José Ángel Antelo.

This week, Antelo highlighted the outstretched hand of Vox in the face of the formation of a government that puts an end to almost three months of uncertainty, but the PP refuses to allow Vox entry into its Executive and wants to govern alone.

By having 21 of the 45 seats in the regional Chamber, he needs two of the nine Vox parliamentarians, who demand two councils from the future cabinet. An excessive demand for the PP, which is convinced that if it returns to the polls it will achieve the long-awaited absolute majority.

The next few days will be decisive to know the future of Murcia. In Vox they believe that the PP will seek to blame them if the electoral repetition is finally confirmed, but they are aware of the damage they can suffer at the polls given the setback that was evidenced on 23-J.

At the national level, this feeling exists and was confirmed this week by the Vox leadership, which ruled out withdrawing its support for the PP despite the unfair maneuver in Congress and said “not to throw in the towel” in its efforts to form a government of right to stop the “national destruction” led by Pedro Sánchez.

If there is electoral repetition both in Murcia and at a general level -a scenario that cannot be ruled out-, the elections in the Region would arrive before the national ones. This would redouble the pressure on the PP and Vox in this autonomy, which would become the testing ground for two parties destined today to understand each other if they want to govern in Spain, but whose relationship seems increasingly hurt after what happened in recent days in The congress.