The general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, has harshly criticized Vox's stance after the vote that prevented the investiture of María Guardiola as president of the Junta de Extremadura. From the Popular Party, they consider what happened in the regional Assembly difficult to understand.
During an event held in Cartagena on the occasion of International Women's Day, Tellado affirmed that “it is incomprehensible what happened yesterday in the Extremadura Assembly, and it is incomprehensible to see Vox vote alongside the Socialist Party and vote alongside Podemos to prevent the government of whoever won, fairly and democratically.”
The popular leader reproached that Vox aligned itself with the PSOE and Podemos to block Guardiola's investiture, recalling that the PP candidate obtained "no more and no less than 43 percent of the vote, a few tenths of an absolute majority."
According to what he explained, the result could have been different with a simple gesture from Vox. “Yesterday, Vox's abstention, for them to abstain, was enough for the investiture of the first woman president of the Junta de Extremadura to succeed. But Vox preferred to vote no, to vote alongside the entire left, to vote as if they were left-wing”, he maintained.
Tellado also pointed out that the main beneficiary of the situation is the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. “I suppose he would be in the Moncloa Palace laughing heartily at the intelligent move of his Vox friends,” he ironized, although he added that “the reality is that the victims are the people of Extremadura.”
Therefore, he asked Vox to set aside “electoral tactical maneuvering” and think about the citizens of the region. In his opinion, to dislodge Sánchez and the PSOE from power “they are not dislodged with tirades, with insults or with bravado, no, no, they are dislodged with votes.”
The popular leader went even further and accused Vox of having defrauded those who trusted the party in Extremadura. “Yesterday Vox betrayed its own voters. I am sure that no Vox voter is satisfied with what they saw yesterday. Nobody voted for Vox in Extremadura for them to act as if they were from the Socialist Party and Podemos,” he concluded.
