The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has urged Vox this Tuesday to unblock the agreements in Extremadura and Aragon as soon as possible. The president of the PP has even set a time horizon: he has said that, in his opinion, they should not enter into April without a pact in both communities and that in no case can they go to May without a solution.
In that call, Feijóo has maintained that agreements must be based on two criteria. On the one hand, “proportionality”, that is, a distribution in accordance with electoral results; on the other, “stability”, because, as he has defended, governing cannot depend on conjunctural interests nor on interim or conditioned permanencies. “One comes to govern, and one comes to make decisions based on real problems and unforeseen problems,” he has stated.
The popular leader has also insisted that PP and Vox are obliged to understand each other because that understanding responds, in his opinion, to the mandate of the polls. In that context, he has railed against the possibility that Vox prevents the PP from governing when the popular party widely surpasses them in votes or seats, and has gone so far as to describe blocking that option as “undemocratic”. He has also called Vox's approach “adolescent”.
Feijóo has asked Vox to sit down again to negotiate to resume the unblocking of regional governments, and has recalled, in the case of Extremadura, that those votes took place on December 21. Even so, he said he saw “some hope” after hearing this Monday Santiago Abascal state that they are going to “close the governments in the autonomous communities”. “We will know in the coming days,” he pointed out, before remarking that, in his opinion, there are “more points of agreement with Vox than divergences”.
And he has added a third front: Feijóo has not only asked to close Extremadura and Aragon, but he has also defended “extending those agreements to Castile and Leon”, incorporating that community into the strategy of understanding between PP and Vox.
