Abascal orders his barons to "demand full compliance with the agreements" with the PP in the midst of an internal crisis in the Balearic Islands

Vicente Coll Madrid

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Madrid

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Updated Monday, February 5, 2024-13:31

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The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, urged this Monday the institutional leaders of his party to "demand" the Popular Party "full compliance" with the governance "agreements" in those regions in which Vox is part of or supports the territorial executives. An order that arrives in the midst of a political and institutional crisis in the

Balearic Islands

, where the internal fracture of the party forces President

Marga Prohens

to decide whether to rely on the Vox deputies who are rebels with the leadership - and in the process of expulsion - or with the parliamentarians related to the national apparatus, banished by their group in Parliament last week.

This Monday, Abascal gathered his leadership in the first

National Executive Committee (CEN)

of Vox since the party leadership was redesigned in the

Extraordinary General Assembly

on January 27, when Abascal strengthened his leadership for the next four years. A direction in which he concentrated organic power on his general secretary,

Ignacio Garriga

, but in which he gave entry to the barons of the formation who hold institutional positions after the success of Vox in the regional and local elections of May 28: the vice presidents

Juan García-Gallardo

(Castilla y León),

Vicente Barrera

(Valencian Community),

José Ángel Antelo

(Murcia Region) and

Alejandro Nolasco

(Aragón).

However, these are not the only autonomies in which Vox co-governs or facilitates control for the PP.

Extremadura

and the Balearic Islands were left without representation in Vox's CEN and just 48 hours after the General Assembly was held, the Vox parliamentary group in the Balearic Islands announced the expulsion of its leader,

Patricia de las Heras

, and the president of the Parliament,

Gabriel Le Senne

, both related to Abascal. The management's response was to open a file against the five wayward deputies to expel them from the ranks of Vox despite the fact that in the Balearic Islands they will maintain the name of the group, the facilities and the financial resources.

While waiting to resolve whether Le Senne will continue to be president of the

Parliament

and second authority in the region, the PP maintains its profile in the archipelago and for the moment has not communicated which of the two factions it will support in order to carry out its project at the parliamentary level, since it needs five extra votes, which are precisely those that the group of rebels has, compared to the two that show support for the leadership.

From the heart of Vox, it was already warned last week of the risk that it could pose for the PP in the island councils and even in other regions if the popular ones sought support from wayward deputies, understanding that this would mean a unilateral rupture of the Government agreements reached.

This Monday, the president of Vox went a step further by instructing his territorial leaders not to give in to their relationship with the PP and "demand full compliance with the agreements" reached both at the regional and municipal levels, where Vox also supports the governability of the right in important city councils.

An order that coincides with Marga Prohens' request to the PP to "accelerate reconciliation or the rapprochement of positions." "There is no solution that does not involve rebuilding these eight deputies so that Vox fulfills its part of the agreement," the Balearic president emphasized this Monday.

The Galician "anomaly"

Furthermore, Abascal urged his barons to "be in the streets alongside our compatriots" to continue publicly protesting against "the coup" carried out by Pedro Sánchez from La Moncloa by carrying out the amnesty as payment to the independence movement for its parliamentary support, now " spread truths in the face of silence and manipulation" by the media, whom the party leadership has recently pointed out as the cause of the "demonization" of the party.

The leader of Vox harangued his new team to "defend the general interest" and do so "alone", as he accused the PP of continuously allying itself with the left and not drawing a true differentiation with respect to the plans of Sánchez, with whom it did. reaches agreements for the distribution of the presidencies of parliamentary committees, the reform of article 49 of the Constitution or even the reform of the leadership of the Judiciary.

A "colossal" task, Abascal explained to his people, which must be combined with the different electoral challenges that Vox faces in the coming months. The first and most complex comes in less than two weeks in Galicia, the only region where Vox does not have representation and, according to the polls, will once again be left out of the regional chamber.

Abascal defined this phenomenon as "an anomaly" to which Vox must find an immediate solution. "Galicia is a land where we are loved and affectionate," said the leader of Vox, who spent the last weekend in various cities in the region and plans to do so in the coming days also through a campaign designed in a national key in order to attract votes obtained on 23-J but that in the regional elections go to the PP or to abstention.