Vox said negotiations are stalled unless the PP proposes a candidate for Valencia president

Nine calendar days before the expiry of the appointment at Colts Valencianes, the PP still does not have a candidate for the Generalitat chairman position. And the lack of a clear reference point prevents them from communicating with Vox, their preferred partner and on whom they rely entirely to maintain power in the Valencian community. The far-right party reiterated on Monday, a week after Carlos Masson’s resignation, that negotiations would not take place until the PP has a candidate.

elDiario.es reported that Box acknowledged “contacts” with the party in Valencia on Friday, and insisted on the issue this Monday at a meeting led by Santiago Abascal’s lieutenants Ignacio Garriga and Montserrat Ruiz. “These contacts existed. There is no negotiation because there is no candidate,” said Jose María Llanos, a spokesman for Cortés. Both PP and Vox remain completely silent about their conservative interlocutors at these meetings. Vox considers it “irrelevant.”

The far-right party has declined to comment on the name, stressing the importance of adhering to proposals such as denying climate change, criminalizing immigration and cutting social rights in a new political deal similar to those it has already agreed with the Conservatives on other occasions.

In an interview with RNE, Vox party general secretary Ignacio Garriga, reported by the European Press, made it clear that the party will not take advantage of the change in the Generalitat chairman to contest seats, but instead will contest a set of policies in line with the party’s platform with the aim of supporting “popular” proposals.

“We are waiting for the People’s Party to decide on its candidate, and when it does, we will agree to protect us from the Socialist Party’s destructive policies, including abandoning the European Green Deal, ending immigration policy, cutting taxes, promoting quality education and increasing access to housing,” he said.

“Vox doesn’t care about the name, we don’t care about the seats, we don’t care which way it is. We want to show that a different policy is possible, as the Spaniards have known for the last 40 years,” he concluded on this point.