Vox puts pressure on the PP in the six autonomous governments in which the popular ones do not have a sufficient majority to carry out the 2025 Budgets: Balearic Islands, Murcia, Valencian Community, Extremadura, Aragón and Castilla y León. The general secretary of the ultra party, Ignacio Garriga, announced this Wednesday that his party is suspending “negotiations” on regional public accounts due to the “approach” of the PP to the PSOE on “immigration policy.” Vox thus clings, to try to destabilize said Executives, between the popular parliamentary spokesperson, Miguel Tellado, and the Minister of Territorial Policy, the socialist Ángel Víctor Torres, with the immigration issue as the only item on the agenda. He does so six months after directly breaking the coalition governments in five communities with the same argument: his refusal to negotiate any legal reform that involves welcoming unaccompanied migrant minors arriving in the Canary Islands in those territories.
In reality, Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party is attending tomorrow’s meeting with the Government without the intention of reaching an immigration agreement, according to PP parliamentary sources. For two reasons: the terms offered by La Moncloa and the political context of confrontation after the serious accusations by businessman Víctor de Aldama about socialist leaders. Despite this, the simple fact that PSOE and the PP sit at a table with migration as an issue to be addressed serves as an excuse for Vox to try to make popular governments founder.
“We are not going to participate in the distribution of illegal immigration and insecurity that Feijóo and Sánchez intend,” Garriga said during a visit to the Barcelona neighborhood of Besòs-Maresme. “If the PP wants to continue promoting the policies of the PSOE, it should negotiate the budgets with them. “Vox’s pulse is not going to tremble,” he added.
In any case, there are communities where negotiations had barely advanced. This is the case of Castilla y León, where the dialogue is null, say sources from the cabinet of its president, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, who pushed forward the spending ceiling with the abstention of the socialists and the vote against Vox, which for weeks he was already reluctant to support the regional accounts. “We are in negotiation with the political forces to have the necessary support. There are political forces that sit seriously, others with commitment and others that do not even sit down,” he stated. In the Balearic Islands, Vox also torpedoes the accounts but with the focus on “bilingual” education.
After Garriga’s announcement, the PP’s deputy secretary of Economy, Juan Bravo, has disdained the threats from the ultras and has pointed out that his party maintains its position of sealing a migration agreement as long as the Government signs the document signed by Feijóo, and the Canarian president, Fernando Clavijo, in September. “There is a signed agreement, there is a proposal that has been transferred to the Government and it is a position of solidarity to try to help the Government of the Canary Islands and Ceuta,” he explained. “Our vocation is to approve the Budgets, and anyone who does not want to support them will have to explain it. The budgets are being worked on. Citizens have the ability to say who they consider to be useful. Those who want to block for the sake of blocking will have to explain why they do it,” he added in reference to Vox’s order.
In July, Abascal’s party broke the pacts with the PP in the five communities in which both parties governed in coalition (Murcia, Valencian Community, Extremadura, Castilla y León and Aragón), after Feijóo accepted a first reception of 347 minors. unaccompanied migrants who were distributed throughout Spain from the Canary Islands and Ceuta. The PP, however, already opposed on that occasion the much more ambitious measure that the central and Canarian governments were then proposing: reforming article 35 of the immigration law to make this distribution mandatory in the Peninsula of the migrant children and adolescents, which, in addition to introducing mandatory, .
The PP abruptly abandoned talks on migration with the Government in October. But, after the push of the Canary Islands president, Fernando Clavijo (from the Canary Coalition, which co-governs the islands with the PP), and Juan Jesús Vivas, president of Ceuta (of the PP), . In any case, the popular ones attend that meeting with Minister Ángel Víctor Torres without the intention of sealing an agreement, according to party sources. In the background is the recent accusation of Torres by businessman Víctor de Aldama, alleged ringleader of the Koldo casewho accused the minister of having asked him for a bribe of 50,000 euros, . The PP leadership wants to avoid any connection with the minister, and in fact it is planned that there will not even be a public photo of Tellado with Torres.
City councils are left out
Vox sources clarify that the threat to break the negotiation on the Budgets affects the six aforementioned autonomous communities, but leaves out the hundred City Councils where popular and ultras continue to share the City Council, and where Abascal acts on a case-by-case basis. In Burgos, for example, by including the PP in the municipal Budget, it provides aid for associations supporting migrants.
