The five autonomous governments of PP and Vox They are on the brink of bankruptcy. The far-right leader called on his management and regional leaders this afternoon to decide whether or not to break the executive power, after the minimum pact with the central government was signed yesterday to house fewer than 400 minor migrants of the thousands who were housed in the Canary Islands. In the PP, the agreements signed a year ago remain in force, despite the accusations of Abascal himself, and they avoid the governments being considered broken.
“I don’t understand what they want when we talk about an exercise of solidarity of all Spaniards with a very relevant and critical part like the Canary Islands. The Canary Islands are Spain and the Canarians are Spanish, they deserve the solidarity of the whole,” said the PP’s national spokesman, Borja Sémper, in an early morning interview on RNE.
Sémper has assured this, after those from Abascal chose to join the group led by the pro-Russian Viktor Orbán in the European Parliament“Vox has a drive that makes clear where it stands, what it wants to represent” and that “the PP does not represent.”
Despite Vox's alleged lack of “solidarity” and its accusations against the PP and its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the spokesman has defended that the agreements signed with the far right after the May 2023 elections “provide stability” and has stated his “commitment to those governments” that “is limited to what has been agreed.” A relevant detail because not all the documents sealed a year ago refer to immigration policy, let alone the specific details of the reception of minors.
Sémper has been the first leader of the PP to go to the media after the statement released yesterday evening by Vox accusing the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of having “forced” the regional presidents of the PP to vote in favor of the distribution of minors. An extreme that the vice-secretary of regional policy, Elías Bendodo, has denied in statements to the media in Congress.
The Malaga leader has insisted that “no one” from the national leadership has contacted the PP leader in recent days, including today, and has left the responsibility for whether or not to abandon the governments on the roof of Vox: “Vox will have to answer for its actions, and will have to decide whether it wants to be a governing party or a protest party.”
The general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, has also avoided considering the government agreements as broken, despite the fact that Vox councillors in Murcia rebelled against the president, Fernando López Miras, during Thursday's usual board meeting.
“Governments that work”
“Whether they break up or not, you have to ask Vox. Only Santiago Abascal and his team know. First, they should communicate it to their own leaders of the coalition governments,” Gamarra said. Yesterday, Vox officials in the regional governments even declared that the decision to break up or not in each community is in accordance with the national leadership and in particular with its leader.
Gamarra acknowledged that what was agreed yesterday in Tenerife corresponds to “a minimum principle of solidarity”, since the regions will each house “between ten and thirty minors”. “This cannot be the cause and they will have to give the right explanations”, he added in an interview on Antena 3.
Feijóo's 'number two' has defended that Vox executives are “governments that work, that give stability to 11 million Spaniards.” “Vox is behaving absolutely irresponsibly by only proposing an order of these characteristics, when in my opinion it wants to break up due to other circumstances,” he noted.
The PP parliamentary spokesman, Miguel Tellado, has joined his colleagues in claiming that “Vox is the one who has to explain its decisions.” “But I believe that not even their officials, let alone their voters, understand them,” he said in statements to the media in Congress. “That is the reality of the whole situation. Yesterday, Vox defended the same position as Esquerra Republicana de Cataluña and in today’s plenary they will vote with Podemos. I think they have a serious problem finding their way,” he concluded.