The president of the Assembly of Extremadura, the socialist Blanca Martin, had quoted the media yesterday after the first round of contacts he had with the four parliamentary parties. the last one was Guillermo Fernández Vara, for what the meeting was organized according to their representation, from less to more. “At the end, Blanca Martín will report at a press conference on the proposal of the candidate for the Presidency of the Board, in the regional Chamber,” she had sent in the call. But she didn’t.
Neither the Official Bulletin of the Assembly of Extremadura, which is published on the same day with the official activities of the regional chamber, collected Blanca Martín’s decision on the dates (two in principle and consecutive) of the plenary sessions where the candidate will be voted on. So, officially, the clock has not started in this second phase, after the parliament was formed last week. Since then, the socialist had a maximum of 15 days to summon the groups, but she decided not to reach the deadline and the party leaders were summoned eight days in advance.
However, the decision of María Guardiola to ask her at the meeting to delay the date of Vara’s investiture -which yesterday confirmed that she is going to present herself even if they do not give her the numbers- to try to reach an agreement “in a few days with Vox» forced Blanca Martín to change her initial strategy, having announced yesterday the date that would coincide with the electoral campaign of the general elections. The president of the PP asked him for a margin to be able to start a negotiation with the party of Abascal until the end of this week.
While this game of agendas and calendars is being played in parliament, the other strategy, the decisive one, between PP and Vox, is taking its steps. The thaw between the two formations has begun and the reconstruction of the bridges, still with uncertain results, is bearing its first fruits with the change in tone that Guardiola is now using, totally contrary to the one used against Vox forever, both in the pre-campaign, as in the campaign and post-campaign.
He already started it on Sunday night in his letter to his militants, and yesterday he went one step further and described them as “a constitutional party with which I want to agree because I want the best for Extremadura.” Thus, the script set by Genoa during the past weekend was fulfilled: suspension of the extraordinary regional board of directors so as not to add “more noise”, lower the tone against the formation that can make her president and avoid the media focus and new controversies. Step by step, everything has been fulfilled.