The Popular Party has provoked anticipated elections in Castile-Leon, in the hope of marginalizing ciudadanos.
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In Spain, the Popular Party (PP, Right) seems to accelerate the announced collapse of the liberals of Ciudadanos, to better absorb his voters disappointed and work at the great gathering of the rights he intends to lead before the legislative of 2023 . Monday, December 20, the President of the Regional Government of Castile-Leon, the Conservative Alfonso Fernandez Mañueco, has thus announced by the dismissal of the four regional ministers of Ciudadanos, with whom he ruled in coalition and in minority since 2019, including the Vice President Francisco Igea. Then, he dissolved the regional parliament, fixing the date of the anticipated elections as of 13 February. According to the surveys, as in the regional elections of Madrid last May, the PP would reinforce the ballot, while Ciudadanos could disappear from the Parliament of Valladolid.
Despite the obvious electoralist interest of his decision, Mr Mañueco justified him by evoking Ciudadanos’ “lack of loyalty”, whom he accused “betray” the coalition agreement “negotiating the budget” In the government’s back “with the Socialist Party and a Little Local Party and preparing a” Motion of Bad “against it. For several weeks, the regional finance bill has actually been blocked in Parliament, for lack of sufficient support to approve the text. For its part, Mr. Igea denied the maneuvers of which he was accused and was at the same time surprised and angry in the face of a decision, according to him, at the same time to “the strategic calculations of the PP” and to “A complicated judicial horizon” for the local right. Several scandals, concerning building permits granted to wind farms, the additional costs associated with great work or an alleged illegal financing of Salamanca PP should indeed move before the courts in the coming months.
“Leadership Problems”
However, the convocation of elections also responds to the interests of the National Directorate of PP. Its president, Pablo Casado, is at once threatened by the rise of the far-right Vox in the opinion surveys, which he tries to counter by hauing his speech, and by the enclosure in his camp of the president of the Regional Government of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, free electron embodying a “uninhibited” right.
For the President of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, Mr. Casado seeks in February “a victory to hide that of Ayuso” and solve “his leadership problems”. “Are they aware that among the regional ministers removed from their duties is that of health, in the middle of the new Vadid of Covid?”, Insurgered the Deputy Mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacis, a member of Ciudadanos, before to remember that PP and the Liberals govern coalition in nearly 130 municipalities.
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