The candidate for the Presidency of the Junta de Extremadura, María Guardiola, has defended this Tuesday that the agreement reached between the PP and Vox "has nothing to hide", but rather aims to "form a lasting, reliable, long-term government", which "consolidates a model for everyone" and "consolidates the change" in the community.
Guardiola has expressed himself thus during the investiture speech delivered in the Assembly of Extremadura, to which he returns after his previous failed attempt, "with spirits intact and with renewed strength," and facing "with naturalness" the pact with Vox to form a coalition government.
In his speech, he underlined that he has closed the agreement with Vox "with the serenity of one who knows what he is doing and why he is doing it", insisting that "Extremadura needs stability" and must "move from blocking to action. From doubt to task. From uncertainty to a roadmap".
For the presidential hopeful, that stability means "that there are budgets", that the self-employed and entrepreneurs "can move forward, can invest", that public services function normally and that politics "stops revolving around itself and returns to revolving around people".
For this reason, he has emphasized that he arrives at the investiture with "a transformation project that will be executed by a lasting, reliable, long-term government," that "will consolidate a model for everyone" and that "will consolidate the change" initiated in the region.
A coalition government with distinct identities
Guardiola has described the future Executive as being in charge of turning this change in Extremadura "into a serious, recognizable stage, that endures and leaves its mark on this region". He stressed that PP and Vox "are not the same party" and that in the agreement "each one keeps its ideas, its identity and its way of looking at things", something that, he said, "is part of democracy and plurality".
"The important thing is that we have been able to put Extremadura first," affirmed the candidate, who has advocated for a program "of growth and economic freedom," of strengthening public services, support for families, defense of the countryside, and an impetus for industry.
Return to the investiture in a different scenario
After the previous debate in which he did not achieve the necessary majority, Guardiola has indicated that he returns to the Chamber "at a different time", with the intention of "offering a way out for Extremadura" and proposing "a government of transformation", because, as he has pointed out, "that is what people expect from us".
He insisted that "Extremadura does not need more blocking. It does not need more division or more grandstanding", but rather "a government that represents it, that responds to its concerns, that works to continue improving public services and that can set a course of certainties and new goals".
In his opinion, Extremadura "has the right to grow" and "for its voice to carry weight," and he explained that "this is the meaning of this investiture." The purpose of the PP-Vox pact is that the community "never again has to feel sidelined and is a land with its own pulse," something that, he said, the new Executive "has come to do" and that "the people of Extremadura continue to ask us for."
He assured that "Extremadura is now a land that sets no limits" and that the region "has changed its inertia", with "a sustained and verifiable trend" which implies that "this region has stopped falling behind in economic cycles".
Guardiola has explained that he attends the investiture "with a portfolio of results", among which he has cited the reduction of unemployment, the increase in affiliation and employment, as well as the increase in exports, underlining that "Extremadura is opening up to the world" and "is no longer a resigned land".
Defense of the pact with Vox and call for transparency
According to what has been stated, Extremadura is now "a region that moves forward, that improves, and that builds its future". He recalled that a few days ago PP and Vox closed the agreement to govern, which they have made available to all citizens because "this agreement has nothing to hide" and, for the Executive, "transparency is not an ornament, it is simply an obligation".
Thanks to that pact, Guardiola presents himself for investiture "with a political roadmap that has broad support", based on the 43 percent support obtained by the PP in the elections of December 21 and the more than 16 percent achieved by Vox, which "translates into the support of three-fifths of the deputies of this Chamber" who, in Wednesday's vote, "will make it possible for a mandate of agreements to finally begin".
He has defined the future government of PP and Vox as an Executive "achieved through dialogue, between different formations, from differences, even from disagreements", but with the common purpose that "Extremadura gets to work at full capacity and leaves behind a stage of blockage".
Guardiola has acknowledged that the pact "has generated noise", as well as "many interested interpretations, warnings, and proclamations", but has reiterated that "what is signed is what will be carried out" and has encouraged reviewing the document "word for word".
In this regard, he has guaranteed that the Executive "will never break the law" and that the agreement between PP and Vox "is the basis for stability" and "the foundation on which this legislature will be built", concluding that it is "a good agreement for all Extremadurans".