The Vox deputy Carlos Flores Juberías has announced this Wednesday in the Constitutional Commission of Congress that his party will become part of the Executive of four autonomous communities. Following this announcement, the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, has demanded that they detail the scope of those agreements and that they make them public before the Andalusian elections, so as not to deprive citizens who will vote next May 17 of that information.
During his speech, Flores Juberías has lashed out at the Government for being "incapable of forging agreements inside and outside the Chambers" and added: "When in the coming weeks Vox joins the Government of four, I said it right, of four communities, the territorial isolation of your Government will be, if possible, even more evident than its parliamentary isolation".
The Vox parliamentarian has not specified which communities are at stake, although the PP and Vox have been holding conversations for weeks for possible coalition governments in Aragon, Extremadura and Castile and León, where elections have already been held. The next elections will be the Andalusian ones.
"Surely they will be sexist and xenophobic agreements"
In his reply, the minister has described these words as "the news of the day" and has questioned the Vox representative to know if they have already closed an agreement with the PP in those autonomies, "what agreements they are, what the content is, what the cuts are, what the sexist measures are and what the denialist measures are."
Bolaños has reiterated his request to Flores Juberías for him to clarify the content of those agreements which, he has affirmed, "surely will be xenophobic, sexist, reactionary, contrary to climate change, to equality between men and women".
"If you want, we wait for you to come to Zaragoza and be a witness"
In his second turn, the Vox deputy has considered "debatable" that he had starred in the news of the day with his announcement in the commission, and has specified that, in his opinion, the true informational focus will be in a hotel in Zaragoza, where this afternoon a press conference will be held to detail the advances in the negotiation between PP and Vox for the formation of the government of Aragon.
"I believe that if we finish soon and Óscar Puente --Minister of Transport--- behaves, you can arrive. But if you tell me you're tight on time I'll call to we wait, we wait so that you can be a witness to that event we don't know if historic or not", the Vox parliamentarian concluded.
"We will be very attentive to the content of the agreement"
Bolaños has declined the invitation to attend that event in Zaragoza, although he has thanked the Vox deputy for having provided them with the "exclusive" of the pact in full commission. "At half past three in a Hotel in Zaragoza, the Popular Party and Vox are going to hold hands to form a reactionary government," he pointed out.
At the same time, he has warned that the Executive will be "very attentive" to the content of that agreement which, he has assured, will be "very contrary to the rights of the social majority, of women, of all people who want democracy and the welfare state to advance".
Spain resists the ultra wave
In his presentation, Bolaños has defended that Spain is "an exception in the world" because "it resists the global far-right wave", although he has warned that the "risk of democratic backsliding" remains present and is even materializing in communities and city councils where the traditional right, the PP, becomes a "necessary cooperator" by "buying into the postulates of the far-right".
Nevertheless, he has stressed that Spanish democracy "not only does not recede but advances with determination", that the 1978 Constitution is already "the longest-lived in its history" and that Spain achieves "leadership positions" in the indices that measure democratic quality.
Likewise, it has asserted the Government's commitment to agreements with its parliamentary partners, a strategy which it has contrasted with the "sterile confrontation of no to everything" that it attributes to PP and Vox.
In this framework, he/she has highlighted that "Spain is an example of stability", that "the Government wins 85% of the votes in the Plenary Session of Congress" and 90% of the total votes in the Chamber, that 60 laws have already been sent to the Official State Gazette (BOE) and that 86% of the initiatives foreseen in the Annual Regulatory Plan are currently being processed.
Finally, it has given special relevance to the reform of article 49 of the Constitution to suppress the term "diminished", to the modification being processed so that Formentera has its own senator, and to the one recently approved by the Council of Ministers to shield the right to abortion.