It’s been months since Region of Murcia They know that what happens in national politics has an echo in territorial negotiations. That the 28-M outlined a panorama, the 23-J another and the difficult constitutive session in Congress for the right, this Thursday, another. And that all this directly affects the relationship between the Popular Party and Vox in Murcia, where the drums of the electoral repetition sound increasingly close.
The week has been tough for the forces that make up the ideological spectrum of the right. Alberto Núñez Feijóo entered the Lower House on Thursday for the first time as leader of the popular deputies and hoped to achieve at least 171 supports to make Cuca Gamarra Congress President. By controlling both chambers, the PP would take a giant step in its goal of being in charge of forming a government. But it was cut short. He came out with just 139 votes after denying Vox a seat on the Board, which resulted in a resounding break with those of Santiago Abascal.
Now, despite the fact that in Vox they rule out that this distancing could affect support for a hypothetical investiture of Feijóo, the complex relationship between both forces can mark the political future of the coming weeks. Not only at the national level: the Region of Murcia is the only autonomy still mired in the blockade and without forming a government, and precisely the PP and Vox are the leading actors in this delicate situation.
The deadline to extend the negotiations, which are already approaching 90 days with hardly any progress, ends on September 7. However, there are more and more voices that see the situation between the two parties as irresolvable and assume that it will not be necessary to reach that date to assume that the people of Murcia will have to go to the polls again.
The clash between Feijóo and Abascal this week, in fact, ended up truncating the little hope that existed in the Murcian negotiating teams of reaching an agreement. In the environment of Fernando López Miras, as the days go by they are closer to the idea of electoral repetition. Even other territorial barons of the PP advise him to go back to the polls. If he does, the leader of the PP will aspire to achieve an absolute majority that on this occasion has been close. The internal calculations that he handles confirm this.