The agreement to invest Moreno in Andalusia grants Vox a vice-presidency

As of July 2, 2026, the government agreement between PP and Vox in Andalusia is politically closed and only pending its formal signing and the second investiture vote in the Andalusian Parliament, scheduled for this afternoon. The first vote failed with 53 votes in favor (PP) and 56 against (PSOE, Por Andalucía, Adelante Andalucía, and Vox), as there was no agreement yet. With the agreement now finalized, Vox will likely vote “yes” and secure the investiture of Juan Manuel Moreno. After that vote, the formal steps of appointing the president and the Council of Government will follow, and then the processing of the regulations that develop the agreed program.

Current status of the PP–Vox agreement

According to coverage by El Demócrata, PP and Vox have reached a government pact that will be signed as the “Government and Stability Agreement for Andalusia” before today’s second investiture vote, around 5:30 p.m., so that it takes political effect in the afternoon Plenary itself (Moreno–Vox agreement: vice presidency, coalition pact). The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has confirmed that the pact “is closed” and that only the precise responsibilities that Vox will assume in the Andalusian Executive remain to be defined (Feijóo’s statements).

According to the same reports, Vox will obtain a vice presidency with broad transversal competencies and at least two significant ministries (areas such as Agriculture, Social Affairs, or Culture are mentioned) (details of the distribution). Other journalistic accounts also point to a broad programmatic agreement, with special emphasis on fiscal policy, administrative simplification, and inclusion of the concept of “national priority” promoted by Vox in areas such as access to certain aids (summary on RTVE, analysis on eldiario.es, EFE report).

Situation of the investiture in the Parliament of Andalusia

First vote: failed investiture

In the first vote, held on June 30, Juan Manuel Moreno only obtained the 53 votes of his group, PP-A, against 56 “no” votes (PSOE-A, Vox, Adelante Andalucía, and Por Andalucía), so he did not reach the required absolute majority (report on the first vote, sectoral analysis). Vox then made it clear that, while there was no signed agreement, it would vote “no” to the investiture (Vox’s position).

In his investiture speech, Moreno acknowledged that the PP lacks an absolute majority and needs support, explicitly stating that the only party willing to dialogue was Vox and that there was an “open dialogue process” with this formation (official investiture speech). From the national leadership of the PP, it was assumed that there would be an understanding “sooner rather than later” (statements by Ester Muñoz).

Second vote: pending decisive step

The second investiture vote takes place this afternoon (July 2, 2026). At this stage, a simple majority is enough. With the 53 seats of PP-A and the 15 of Vox, the favorable bloc would total 68 deputies, against 41 from the opposition, which de facto guarantees Moreno’s election if Vox fulfills its support commitment (forecast of the second vote, debate context, previous situation).

Steps remaining for the approval and development of the agreement

From an institutional point of view, the pending steps are clear:

First, the second investiture vote itself. If the Parliament grants its confidence, the Presidency of the Chamber will communicate the result to the King and the decree appointing Moreno as president of the Junta will be published in the BOJA. From there, the second phase opens: the president appoints the ministers and the final structure of the new Council of Government is published, including the portfolios that Vox will assume (general explanation of phases in PP–Vox pact).

Third, the political agreement will be translated into normative terms through regional bills and, if applicable, decree-laws that must be validated by the Andalusian Parliament, following the usual parliamentary control scheme (plenary debates, committee hearings, budgets, etc.), as set out in the general guides on Andalusian institutional functioning. In parallel, the pact foresees stable coordination of PP and Vox votes on major initiatives (budgets, tax reforms, changes in education, immigration, or health), thus consolidating the 68-seat majority.

Other background and political materials

This agreement fits into a line of PP–Vox pacts already seen in other communities, as reflected in the documentation and archives of both parties and various media (Garriga’s position, Abascal’s criticisms, Andalusian debate, campaign assessments, Vox’s electoral reaction, coalition forecasts, impact on health, Moreno’s stance on “national priority”, PSOE’s reading, PP–Vox agreement (reference document), positions on social media, previous PP–Vox agreements, media reactions, related audiovisual content, general Vox position, Moreno’s speech on agreements). All this helps to contextualize the Andalusian pact within the national strategy of both formations.

The Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia barely defines directly the competencies and functions of the Vice Presidency of the Junta. It only recognizes the possibility that there may be one or more vice presidents within the Council of Government and foresees that the President may delegate to them his own executive functions. The concrete detail of what a vice president does is not in the Statute but is left to the decision of the President and the organizational regulations of the Andalusian Government. In practice, therefore, the Vice Presidency has essentially derived and delegated functions, not its own and fixed in the Statute itself.

Institutional fit of the Vice Presidency in the Statute

The basic regulation is found in the Organic Law 2/2007, of March 19, reforming the Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia, published in the BOE (official text).

In this text, the Vice Presidency always appears linked to the President and the Council of Government, without a specific title dedicated to it. Two key ideas are:

• Organ in which it is integrated: the Council of Government “is composed of the President, the Vice Presidents if any, and the Ministers.” This means that the Vice Presidency is a member of the collegiate body that directs the policy of the Junta and the regional Administration.
• Relationship with the President: the Statute configures the Vice Presidency as a position functionally dependent on the President of the Junta, not as a constitutionalized organ with detailed own competencies.

Competencies derived from presidential delegation

The only provision that expressly mentions powers associated with the Vice Presidency does so indirectly, through the figure of the President. The Statute establishes that:

“The President may temporarily delegate his own executive functions to one of the Vice Presidents or Ministers.”

From this formulation, several relevant elements about the competencies of the Vice Presidency are deduced:

• Delegated nature: the executive functions exercised by a vice president come from the delegation made by the President. They are not “original” competencies fixed in the Statute.
• Variable scope: the material scope of these functions can be very broad or very limited, depending on what the President decides at each moment (for example, coordination of certain areas, substitution of the President, promotion of key policies, etc.). The Statute does not set a fixed catalog.
• Temporality of the delegation: the Statute itself emphasizes that the delegation is “temporary,” which allows the President to modify, withdraw, or reassign it according to the political and management needs of the Government.
• Possible concurrence with ministries: the same delegation clause refers to “Vice Presidents or Ministers,” which places the Vice Presidency on a functional level analogous to a reinforced ministry, without guaranteeing a superior status in terms of competencies from the Statute itself.

Functions as a member of the Council of Government

Being integrated into the Council of Government, the Vice Presidency participates in all the functions that the Statute attributes to this collegiate body, although not exclusively. The Council of Government:

• Exercises the political direction of the Autonomous Community.
• Directs the Administration of the Junta de Andalucía.
• Develops the executive and administrative functions of the Community.
• Exercises regulatory power within the scope of regional competencies.
• Files appeals of unconstitutionality and conflicts of competence, and appears in constitutional processes.

The Vice Presidency, like any other member of the Council, participates in the deliberation and decision-making in these matters, but the Statute does not recognize a singular decision-making power distinct from that derived from being a member of that body.

Practical determination of functions

Since the Statute does not outline more specific competencies, the real specification of the Vice Presidency’s functions is carried out by two main routes:

• Decision of the President of the Junta: through government structure and appointment decrees, the President assigns to the vice president or vice presidents areas of political coordination, substitution functions, or the holding of one or more ministries.
• Regional organizational and legal regime regulations: a law of the Andalusian Parliament regulates the status of members of the Council of Government (including vice presidents), their incompatibilities, and certain functional aspects, but these aspects are not developed in the Statute itself.

In conclusion, the Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia recognizes the figure of one or more vice presidents as part of the Council of Government and foresees that they may receive delegations of executive functions from the President. However, it does not configure a closed list of own competencies of the Vice Presidency but leaves its effective content to the internal organization of the Government and the political will of the President in each legislature. No further information is available in the consulted sources that adds additional specific statutory competencies for this position.

Manuel Gavira Florentino has not been proposed for the Andalusian vice presidency: he is currently the Vox candidate for the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía for the 2026 regional elections and remains the spokesperson of the Vox Parliamentary Group in the Andalusian Parliament. His political trajectory is built on a previous professional career as a lawyer and teacher in legal subjects, an early affiliation to Vox in Cádiz (2014), and a progressive accumulation of positions in the Andalusian Parliament since 2018. Before being designated candidate for the Presidency, he had already held relevant positions in the Parliament’s Board, in multiple committees, and as the main face of the party in Andalusia. Below I detail those positions and stages, which are the real previous ones to his leap as a candidate to preside over the Junta, not to a vice presidency.

Origin, professional profile, and first steps in Vox

Manuel Gavira was born in Cádiz in 1969 and holds a Law degree from the University of Cádiz, Jerez campus. He worked as a registered lawyer since 1998, with his own office and activity focused on civil and commercial law, as well as working as a business advisor and civil and commercial mediator for more than two decades, until his full-time dedication to politics around 2018. Biographical sources also highlight his role as a law teacher in training academies for the National Police, Civil Guard, and security guards, which reinforces his technical-legal profileNueva Economía FórumLinkedInModeloCurriculum.

Organically, he was one of the first Vox affiliates in Cádiz around 2014, participating in the territorial establishment of the party in the provinceEl Demócrata – profileEl Demócrata – electoral profileVOX – Manuel Gavira tag. This early membership positioned him as an internal reference when Vox made its breakthrough into the Andalusian Parliament in 2018.

Entry into institutional politics: deputy and Parliament Board (XI Legislature)

His entry into institutional politics occurred in the 2018 Andalusian elections, in which Vox entered with 12 deputies. Gavira was elected from the Cádiz constituency and joined the XI Legislature of the Andalusian Parliament (2018–2022)Andalusian Parliament – XI Legislature profile.

In that legislature, he held several relevant positions:

• Third Secretary of the Board of the Andalusian Parliament (12/27/2018–04/26/2022), becoming the first Vox institutional official in a Board of an autonomous Parliament.
• Third Secretary of the Permanent Deputation and of the Board of the Permanent Deputation itself (12/27/2018–07/13/2022).
• Member of the Council of Andalusian Communities (10/31/2019–07/13/2022).
• Third Secretary of the Consultative Commission on Appointments, Relations with the Andalusian Ombudsman, and Petitions (01/23/2019–04/26/2022).
• Spokesperson in the Commission for the Control of Andalusian Radio and Television (02/11/2019–04/26/2022).
• Spokesperson in the Commission on Tourism, Regeneration, Justice, and Local Administration (09/04/2020–08/30/2021).
• Member of the Board of Spokespersons, where he served as Third Secretary and Spokesperson (05/06/2021–04/26/2022).
• Third Secretary of the Rules Commission (03/09/2021–04/26/2022).

This set of responsibilities positioned Gavira as one of the most visible faces of Vox in Andalusia already from the first autonomous legislature in which he participatedNueva Economía Fórum.

Consolidation as spokesperson and positions in the XII Legislature

In 2021, still in the XI Legislature, the group appointed him President of the Vox Parliamentary Group in Andalusia (03/16/2021–05/06/2021) and shortly after, Spokesperson of the Parliamentary Group (05/06/2021–04/26/2022)Nueva Economía Fórum. He thus became the main political voice of Vox in the Chamber, simultaneously holding for the first time in the history of the Andalusian Parliament the status of Board member and group spokespersonEl Demócrata.

After the 2022 elections, he renewed his seat for Cádiz and moved to the XII Legislature (2022–2026). Parliamentary data show continuity and even expansion of his responsibilities:

• Spokesperson of the Vox Parliamentary Group in Andalusia in the Board of Spokespersons, first from 08/24/2022 to 03/23/2026, and again from 06/11/2026, already at the start of the new legislative stage.
• Secretary of the Commission on the Statute of Deputies (2022–2026).
• Spokesperson in the Rules Commission, the Statutory Development Commission, and the Commission for Monitoring and Control of the Financing of Political Parties with Representation in the Andalusian Parliament (2022–2026).
• Spokesperson and later member in the Commission for the Control of the Public Business Agency of Andalusian Radio and Television and its Subsidiaries (2022–2023).
• Member of the Permanent Deputation (09/14/2022–06/10/2026).
• Member of the Council of Andalusian Communities (07/14/2022; occasional position in 2022).

All these positions are within the regional scope and consolidate Gavira as a central figure of Vox in Andalusia, always within the regional Parliament and without holding any position in the Junta de Andalucía Government so far.

Designation as candidate for the Presidency and clarification about the vice presidency

In March 2026, the National Executive Committee of Vox designated him candidate for the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía, making him the third regional lead candidate of the party after Francisco Serrano (2018) and Macarena Olona (2022)El DemócrataASRedacción Médica. During the campaign, Vox and Santiago Abascal repeatedly presented him as the “only alternative” against PP and PSOE on issues such as immigration, taxation, or healthNueva Economía Fórum – criticism of SASNueva Economía Fórum – national priorityVOX – CórdobaVOX – NíjarVOX – Puente GenilVOX – campaign closing.

At no time do the consulted sources record a formal appointment or proposal for the vice presidency of the Junta de Andalucía. Vox’s approach is that Gavira aspires to preside over the regional Government, and only in a possible post-electoral pact with the PP could the discussion about portfolios or vice presidencies open, but there is no record that he has been specifically proposed as vice president to dateRedacción Médica – campaign profileVOX – Roquetas de MarVOX – EsteponaVOX – LinaresVOX – HuelvaVOX – CádizNueva Economía Fórum – stabilityRedacción Médica – health programEl Demócrata – other Vox profiles.

In summary, Manuel Gavira’s previous positions before becoming a candidate for the Presidency are concentrated in the Andalusian Parliament (deputy, member of the Board, member and spokesperson in numerous committees, group and Board of Spokespersons spokesperson) and in his internal weight in Vox Andalusia, based on a long career as a lawyer and law teacher. There is no official record that he has been specifically proposed for an autonomous vice presidency.