Esquirol of Vox in Extremadura. The former Vox advisor in the government of María Guardiola, Ignacio Higuero, is closing the door on his party and deciding to stay in government. “You called me the advisor of Vox and now I am the advisor 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 said he told Vox this morning because Santiago Abascal's decision to abandon all autonomous governments in which the far right participated “I do not share it and cannot defend it.” For this reason, he will leave the party next week, which he joined last September when he was appointed as a member of the Executive Board.
In this way, Guardiola is venturing into a three-year legislature in which she will have to seek parliamentary support to implement her proposals, since the PP was not the most voted list in the elections a year ago, although she and her party seem to be ignoring them: “We are going to build bridges and reach out to the PSOE, as the second parliamentary power, already united for Extremadura”, he pointed out, while the truth is that the Socialists were the ones who obtained the most support in the 2023 regional elections. (6,276 additional votes), although they were on a par with the PP with 28 seats.
For this reason, the government agreement with the far right was necessary for the PP, which now, after the breakup, is once again adopting a cold tone and distancing itself from those who were its partners until Thursday. So much so that the president has cancelled everything in that pact, which she said was the best signed with Vox in Spain, including some agreements that are already being implemented.