Mañueco delivers ‘in extremis’ the presidency of the Cortes to Abascal’s party
PP and Vox have reached a government agreement ‘in extremis’. Less than ten minutes before the scheduled time for the Constitution of the Cortes de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco has announced on Twitter a legislature pact with Vox “based on a program at the service of the people” and with the purpose to form “a stable and solid government”. The agreement extends to the Table of the Chamber, which will finally preside over the formation of Santiago Abascal, according to popular sources.
Vox has maintained a position of strength until the last moment because its 13 prosecutors, compared to the 31 of the PP, are key to governance. “In these conditions, we will be forced to vote for our candidates in the Cortes and we will not be able to support an investiture [de Alfonso Fernández Mañueco]», Abascal himself had warned upon his arrival at Congress this morning. The conditions to which he was referring are, he understands, “fair and proportional”, and are summarized in the request to preside over the Table of the Cortes, together with a secretary, to have the Vice Presidency of the Board and three councils. Then they break down a government program and a series of actions to be carried out in the first ninety days and that is where they admit some more negotiation, aware that it is the PP that has the 31 seats and that enables it to mark the line of action.
“The PP is missing Vox and its voters,” added the far-right leader, who insisted that the limit of the negotiation was clear from the beginning. “We were not going to admit a different treatment from that given to other political forces with a similar representation,” he pointed out.