Vox opens another one against the PP in Castilla-La Mancha for the reform of the Statute of Autonomy agreed with the PSOE
With the PP without resolving the succession of Carlos Mazón in the Valencian Generalitat, Vox doubles the pressure on Alberto Núñez Feijóo, opening a new front for him in Castilla-La Mancha. The far-right party associates the PP with the PSOE over its agreement on the reform of the Statute of Autonomy, in what it calls the “penultimate scam of the two-party system”. Its renewal, the consideration of which will be voted on next week in Congress, where it will be carried forward, will bring the maximum number of deputies in the autonomous Parliament, which is currently 33 seats, to a maximum of 55 in the Cortes (the Socialists have proposed that it could reach 59). The reform also provides that any change to the electoral law aimed at changing the number of deputies will require a strengthened majority of three fifths of the Chamber, i.e. the agreement of the two majority groups would be necessary. The 2023 elections produced 17 deputies for the PSOE, 12 for the PP and 4 for Vox.
“It is yet another example of what bipartisanship is. They are two parties that understand each other in two large blocs, in their main arguments they agree in a very high percentage. The PP is allied with the PSOE in Brussels, the main laws of recent years related to the climate issue or the bureaucratization of Europe are supported by the PP and the PSOE. Even in Spain they agree, such as the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, they do not stop agreeing, such as the garbage rate against Vox, which opposes this entire climate agenda,” said José María Figaredo, general secretary of Vox in Congress.
According to the PP and the PSOE, the increase in the number of deputies responds to demographic criteria. Vox argues that the current 33 should not be increased. In other communities, such as in Asturias, the General Council has 45 deputies, which represents half the population of the Principality. Castilla y León or Euskadi, with a similar number of inhabitants to Castilla-La Mancha, have many more seats in their Parliaments (81 and 75 respectively).
The new articles also protect public services and incorporate the strategy to combat depopulation. It also limits the competence of regional deputies and the Government Council and introduces the figure of the decree law. Before the press conference in its headquarters on Bambú street in Madrid, Vox released a video in which the national deputies of Castilla-La Mancha Manuel Mariscal and Ricardo Chamorro equate the PSOE and the PP, which Figaredo defined as “the red socialists and the blue socialists”. “They don’t think about breeders, traders, self-employed workers, entrepreneurs or young people. They give priority to having more deputies, more councilors and more beach bars, such as embassies. Remember the embassies of the separatists, the ones they opened in Brussels to sell their political propaganda? Well, with this new statute of Castilla-La Mancha, they intend to open embassies abroad to defend the same thing, the interests of the The PP and the PSOE They want a regional agenda in the same style of the separatists, more taxes on the population of Castilla-La Mancha (…) and the green pact and the 2030 Agenda”, they argue in the video, in which the far right makes no distinction between PP and PSOE: “It’s a lot, it’s a lot.”
