This Monday, the president of the PP in Castilla-La Mancha and leader of the opposition in the regional courts has said that he trusts that this legislature will be “calm”, despite the entry into Parliament of the extreme right. But perhaps it is not so much for Paco Núñez or, at least, that is what the PSOE ventures. The Socialists are already ‘moving’ him from the chair of president of the popular Castilian-Manchegans and insinuate that the process to replace him is underway.
Last week the name of Carmen Fúnez, a member of the hard core of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, came to light as a possible replacement for Paco Núñez at the head of the regional PP, after losing the regional elections against Emiliano García-Page for the second time. The PP of Toledo jumped to the fore to deny it. The deputy secretary of Organization Joaquín Romera did it to ensure that “no one should be nominated” other than Núñez because “there is no open” process “of succession.”
“I believe that if there is no congress, Paco Núñez should continue to be president. Why not?”, he said on behalf of the Toledo PP chaired by Carlos Velázquez, today the brand new mayor of Toledo, thanks to a pact with Vox, who had already disputed the presidency of the PP against Paco Núñez and whose name also sounds again along with that of Carmen Funez.
Joaquín Romera himself acknowledged that although “all eyes are on her” – by Fúnez – she has already stated that she is not in the succession race of “anyone” and stressed that as a candidate for Congress for 23J she is “doing very well well” and it is “a very important value of the Feijóo PP”.
Today the Socialist Group spokesperson in the Castilla-La Mancha Parliament, Ana Isabel Abengózar, has taken advantage of this rumor to point out that she hopes that before the end of the year there will be a “pre-agreement” with the PP in order to reform the Statute of Autonomy and He added that “it is very likely” that this agreement is not with the PP of Paco Núñez.
“It is very probable that before the end of the year what will be will be a preliminary agreement with the PP of Castilla-La Mancha and the PSOE. And I tell you that no one will have told you, very likely, because there are those who may even be unaware”, said the socialist leader, who has insisted that said agreement “is very likely” and that “what is also very likely is that this PP is not that of Paco Núñez”.
Abengózar recalled that they also want to face the reform of the electoral law in the autonomous community to make it “more fair” than the current one or “continue protecting and shielding rights, and public services as we have done so far”, including water for Castile-La Mancha.
That is the direction in which they are going to work, said the socialist leader, who also highlighted the importance of an Electoral Law that translates into a more equitable representation, without losing votes, not even those of parties with a minority.
Criticism of Núñez for dodging a pact to shield Equality policies against Vox
On the other hand, the socialist spokesperson has criticized that the PP of Núñez “has not yet been able” to answer the PSOE’s proposal to give up their votes free of charge to the ‘popular’ town halls of the region to shield the policies of Equality and fight against gender violence against Vox.
“They had the free votes of the PSOE so as not to take a step back in those pacts in which they have insisted that, as long as they sit in the chair, agree with Vox, agree with Vox and govern with Vox”, he has recalled and has reproached the leader of the PP for saying that this deal offer is a “joke” when talking about women’s rights.
In this sense, he has criticized the “shame” that the current leadership of the PP of Castilla-La Mancha represents, since “it is far from representing the policies that advance rights and protect people” and the citizens of the region ” It does not deserve a PP like the one that Mr. Paco Núñez is directing.
“The Socialists have extended our hand, we have given away our votes so that Equality is not cut. This seems to me to be exemplary and, of course, without a doubt, it is what the citizens deserve, Abengózar concluded.