Juanma Moreno clashes with Vox's no in the first investiture attempt

MadridIt has been more than six weeks since the Andalusian elections that linked the popular Juanma Moreno Bonilla to Vox. The acting president of Andalusia, one of the barons of the PP most reluctant to agree with the far-right, has been forced to negotiate with them because fell two seats short of an absolute majority. However, the talks have not yet reached a satisfactory conclusion. This was confirmed this Tuesday afternoon in the first investiture attempt in the Andalusian Parliament. Santiago Abascal's party voted against making Moreno Bonilla president, arguing that they have not yet closed a programmatic agreement with the PP. The far-right party has blamed the baron popular for having arrived too late –Moreno Bonilla waited more than three weeks after the elections to sit down and talk for the first time–.

During the debate, the popular candidate urged Vox to work with "intensity", "responsibility", and "generosity" to achieve a pact in the next 48 hours. This Thursday Moreno Bonilla will face the second vote of the investiture plenary session and hopes "that dialogue will be fruitful". In his opinion, the conditions are already met for Vox to agree to invest him, although the leader of the far-right in Andalusia, Manuel Gavira, has warned that they need "deadlines and guarantees of compliance" with the policies demanded by Vox. In his speech, Gavira recalled that the "national priority" is one of the far-right's conditions. A concept that was already the key to negotiations in Extremadura, Aragon, and Castilla y León.

In his response to the Vox spokesperson, Moreno Bonilla has avoided going into detail about the policies demanded by the far-right. Accepting them would be a surrender of the baron from the PP that, while it has held an absolute majority, has made moderation its banner. An attribute that has placed it as the representative of one of the two souls of the PP, in contrast to the hard wing embodied by the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Moreno Bonilla has admitted that he "doesn't like" to make a deal with Vox. However, "he has accepted it since election night itself". "An agreement means giving in", he has resigned himself, and has thanked the far-right for their willingness to dialogue and to "modulate proposals" so that they are not "far from reality". Despite the lack of agreement, Gavira also had kind words for the PP candidate.

Moncloa Prelude

Both the PP and Vox have agreed that it is necessary to reach an agreement for the investiture as soon as possible. On the one hand, Moreno Bonilla has argued that not doing so is a "waste of time and opportunities" for Andalusians and has warned that, if elections were repeated, on October 25, Andalusia would be "blocked" for half a year. "Either blockade or an agreement that allows us not to hold back an Andalusia that continues to grow," he has stated. Regarding Vox, Gavira has stressed that it is necessary to "demonstrate that there is a real alternative to Pedro Sánchez's mafia" and has placed the Andalusian agreement as a prelude to a pact so that the PP and Vox can "kick [the socialist leader] out of Moncloa".