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María Guardiola reaffirms her political assessment of Vox. And although last Friday she signed a programmatic agreement of legislature of 60 points with this formation, she has been given a ministry – that of Forest Management and Rural World – and a regional senator to be president of the Junta de Extremadura, the PP candidate has assured today that "my principles are intact". He has thus referred to his appearance just after they did not reach an agreement with Abascal's party and gave control of the Assembly Table to the PSOE.

It was then – although he had already been doing it during the campaign and also after the polls closed – when he harshly attacked Vox, which he said, among other issues, that this party, "using the fat stroke", "denies" sexist violence, "dehumanizes" immigrants or 'throws' the LGTBI flag into the bin, so it could never govern with them. This Wednesday he has reaffirmed in those criticisms: "I said what I thought", although he has qualified that he expressed it then "perhaps in a less rational and much more emotional way".

Guardiola has thus responded to the media in an act of the PP of Extremadura where he presented the candidates to the Congress and the Senate, when he has been reminded of the statements of the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has assured these days that Guardiola reacted in an "inadequate" way after that lack of agreement in the negotiations.

"Feijóo knows me, I am a passionate person, very emotional, I have already recognized that when I made those statements I said, of course, what I thought, but perhaps I did it in a less rational and much more emotional way," said Guardiola to confirm then: "I simply said what I think, my principles are intact. "

The one who will become the first woman president in the history of Extremadura said yesterday also about Vox, at the end of the second round of consultations with the president of the Assembly, that "of course" she would dismiss a Vox counselor if the case occurs in her coalition government, since it falls within her powers. Thus, he recalled that the presidency has the power to appoint and dismiss directors, and that, if any were dismissed, it would fulfill its "obligation and responsibility."

Criticism of Vara

In parallel, the leader of the PP of Extremadura has responded to the president of the Board in functions, Guillermo Fernández Vara, who has labeled as "pact of losers" the agreement between his party and Vox to govern in Extremadura: "The only one who has lost is him," he said, to remember that on election night he recognized the defeat "saying goodbye to the people of Extremadura, and assuming they didn't want me to be the president of this region anymore."

"The losers don't take on an investiture if they're not going to win it. I would not present myself to an investiture if I did not have the support, "added Guardiola to then consider "a lucky one to be able to change together with a great team the designs of my land".

  • Maria Guardiola
  • Vox
  • Santiago Abascal Conde
  • Guillermo Fernandez Vara
  • PSOE

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