PP and Vox Explore Mazón Replacement to Avoid Valencian Elections

PP and Vox are exploring a replacement for Carlos Mazón to avoid elections in the Valencian Community. Is all this being negotiated in the Valencian Community? Meanwhile, in Abascal's party, it is awkward that signing a new investiture pact will also imply supporting the situation in which Mazón ends up: with his seat in the Corts to remain aforado. This also evidenced what the entire party knows: that they are now in Vox's hands to avoid elections in that community. In the PP leadership, they do not want to consider the possibility of a blockade. «Are we really going to reach an agreement where the PP accepts our demands, which its Extremaduran candidate will then deny throughout the campaign?» they ask. In the first autonomous community, relations have deteriorated significantly; in the second, Juanma Moreno needs an absolute majority. Source ABC He spoke with Abascal and made it clear that his party would like to resolve the crisis as soon as possible. Furthermore, the perception at Bamboo (the party's national headquarters) is that the right would win again, only with a stronger Vox and a weakened PP. That is, in Vox, they understand that a change in the regional presidency «changes everything» and that it will not be enough to «continue» with the agreement with Mazón, but the cards must be put back on the table. The pact in Valencia comes at a time of maximum tension between the two parties and at the height of Abascal's rise. Doubts about the agreement There are national leaders and also within the Valencian PP who express optimism that an agreement will be reached. «It's an internal PP crisis in which we have also ended up getting involved,» they lament. What Vox has already made clear is that the negotiation underway is a tough one, in which they will demand new concessions on their two main political banners: immigration and ending green policies. This also applies to Montse Lluís, his number two in the organizational chart and a person of Abascal's complete trust. And, above all, there are Valencian leaders who make the following reflection: «What incentives does Vox have to reach a quick agreement?». The open struggle on the national right is more than evident, with Abascal's party on the rise in all polls, the PP trying to plug that advance and facing several regional electoral dates in which the two parties will face each other without ambiguity. Vox has designated its secretary general, Ignacio Garriga, as the negotiator. «The feeling is that we never know who is in command and if we have guarantees that they will comply with what was agreed,» they tell this newspaper. Fear among some PP leaders that Vox will drag out the negotiation and end up forcing elections. Vox has also criticized the PP for its position on Carlos Mazón, accusing Feijóo of contributing to his political lynching, to the point that Abascal has been one of the leaders who defended the now acting president. In Castile and León and Andalusia, a major political clash is also expected. They are rising in the polls more than the rest and have to go to a campaign in Extremadura where the clash with the PP is going to be brutal. The distance between the two is very wide, say sources close to Santiago Abascal, who also focus on the difficulty of advancing in a pact for Valencia while facing a head-to-head campaign in Extremadura. It was Alberto Núñez Feijóo who picked up the phone to start the negotiation. The argument they rely on — and there is quite a consensus in the entire party on this — is the difficulty of negotiating something as delicate as an investiture while both parties are facing electoral campaigns in which a lot is at stake. The problem between PP and Vox is the distrust that exists between the two formations. They believe that Vox would have difficulty explaining why it prevents an agreement for a new 'president' when a budget has already been approved and is in force. The conversations have begun. It remains to be seen what will happen in Aragon and the decision that Jorge Azcón finally makes. «They are going to make it very difficult for us,» they assume. And the fact that it all starts in Extremadura is no coincidence: the tune with María Guardiola is absolutely nil. But the agreement will not be easy or probably as fast as Génova wants. «The program is the only thing that matters to us,» they explain, implying that if there is a new 'president', he «will have to embody all those commitments in his investiture speech». On the other hand, however, there are leaders who think that it would also be a victory for the left, which is calling for those elections and, furthermore, would deepen the division and distrust that already exist among the right-wing parties. Related News standard No Juanma Moreno: «Privatization is the great lie of the PSOE» Mercedes Benítez In Abascal's party, they watched the PP's first steps with bewilderment: they do not understand that they did not put the candidate directly on the table — despite ABC already publishing that the PP only considers Juanfran Pérez Llorca — and they show «concern» about the differences shown between Génova and the Valencian PP. In Vox, the perception is different. «Is that really going to be possible, all at once?». But there are many other PP officials who express «serious doubts» and «a lot of fear» that Vox is faking a negotiation that will end in an election call. Abascal's party has made it clear «that it does not fear» going to an election, given that all polls guarantee growth. Then Castile and León will come.