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News: Vox’s only councillor in Extremadura disobeys Abascal and remains in Guardiola’s Government
Guardiola calls the PSOE in Extremadura the “second largest force”, despite having more votes than the PP and the same number of seats, and demands that the leader of the extreme right in the community be reappointed as a senator by regional designation.
A Vox dissident in Extremadura. The current Vox councillor in María Guardiola’s government, Ignacio Higuero, has slammed the door on his party and decided to remain in the Junta. “You called me the Vox councillor and now I am the councillor of the Junta de Extremadura,” Higuero told the media in an appearance alongside the president, who has announced that the PP will continue alone.
Higuero has said that he communicated this to Vox this morning because Santiago Abascal’s decision to abandon all the regional governments in which the far right participated “I neither agree with nor can I defend.” For this reason, he will resign from the party next week, which he joined last September when he was appointed as a regional councilor. Vox “has changed the rules of the game halfway through the game,” he said, and in contrast to this position, Higuero has described himself as an “honest and straightforward” person.
The councillor did not want to reveal the conversation he had with Vox, but the party leader Jorge Buxadé attacked him on the programme La Hora de la 1. “It was a possibility that some of the councillors could remain stuck in their seats and not defend the values of Vox. Our decision is to leave the governments. I understand that he is staying. From a personal point of view we can understand it, although not from a political one.”
This change of heart comes just one day after Higuero assured that he would abide by the decision taken by his party’s national executive committee in the afternoon. “I will be following what my president tells me and what they tell me from Madrid,” he said during an institutional visit, as he was one of the few Vox councillors in Spain who kept his agenda.
Now we will have to wait and see if the Extremaduran head of Forest Management and Rural World keeps his team, since some senior officials and advisors are Vox members. In the ministry there are three general directors, including one in charge of bullfighting , and a general secretary, which Higuero supports and has shown his willingness to have the same team: “It is a magnificent team and I count on them, but we will meet next week and I will listen to them.”
Guardiola, alone
In this way, Guardiola ventures into three years of legislature in which he will have to seek parliamentary support to push through his proposals because the PP’s was not the most voted list in the elections a year ago, although she and her party ignore it : “We are going to build bridges and reach out to the PSOE, as the second parliamentary force, already United for Extremadura,” she said when the truth is that the socialists were the ones who obtained the most support in the 2023 regional elections (6,276 more votes), although they tied with the PP with 28 seats.
The government agreement with the far right has therefore been necessary for the PP, which now, after the break-up, is once again using a cold tone and distancing itself from those who until Thursday were its partners. So much so that the president has cancelled everything included in that pact, which she said was the best one signed with Vox in Spain, including some agreements that are already in place, such as the increase in the number of members of the Assembly Board to accommodate Vox, which was left out at the beginning of the legislature due to the difficulties in closing the pact. But this point “is no longer of interest to us,” Guardiola pointed out, because now “there are other priorities.”
Guardiola and the far right also agreed that the senator appointed by the autonomous region would correspond to a Vox deputy, specifically the leader of that party in the region, Ángel Pelayo Gordillo. In this sense, he stressed that everything included in that pact, “unilaterally broken by Vox, lapses and for consistency Mr. Pelayo should resign from his seat as senator because it corresponds to the Popular Party.”
However, the president has announced that there will be no “cordons sanitaires” around any party and that she will try to reach agreements “with whoever wants to build with me”. Regarding her former partner, she said that they shared “until a couple of days ago” the issues outlined in the pact, so she trusts that Vox will not pose obstacles to its implementation, although Guardiola was referring to the proposals that were included in the electoral programme of the PP and that they managed to introduce in the document that was signed with the extreme right to reach the Presidency of the Junta.
But at the same time that she said she hopes to have the trust of the extreme right to obtain the green light for the agreements in the document they signed a year ago, she stressed that she will reject “any nuance” that Vox introduced in that document. “I am going to focus on the electoral program of the PP and on reaching specific and constant agreements,” reiterated the head of the Extremadura Executive.
Regarding this agreement, Guardiola also stated that they managed to leave out “red lines”, such as migration, LGBT rights, equality, feminism and respect for human rights. In other words, the trigger for the break-up of the Extremadura coalition government, the approval to take in 30 migrant minors from the Canary Islands, is an issue that was not included in the document, so, in the opinion of the Extremadura president, Vox “has not given any explanation nor do I think it can give one and I don’t know if it is worth it anymore”.
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