The general secretary of the Popular Party of Castilla-La Mancha, Carolina Agudo, has pointed out that her formation would be willing to start discussing the possible reform of the Electoral Law as long as other issues are settled before opening the necessary reform of the Autonomy Statute, such as shielding aspects such as health or water for the region.
In an interview with Europa Press, Agudo regretted that the future reform was “the first announcement” made by the president-elect, Emiliano García-Page, as soon as the electoral results were known. “We have always been clear about it, and if a consensus has to be reached, it must be done to shield social services and policies,” Agudo said as a step prior to sitting down to negotiate a new Electoral Law.
Therefore, “once all the social policies that come to solve problems have been shielded, it will be possible to talk about the Electoral Law”, said the ‘number two’ of the Castilian-Latin PP, who recalled that in any case the PSOE of García-Page has had the opportunity to promote this reform eight years ago when he first came to government.
The main condition that the PP will put on the PSOE to start talking will be the way to make health overcome the “bankruptcy” to which it considers that it has been doomed after the pandemic. For this reason, it proposes guaranteeing “a good health service” and shielding in the Magna Carta of the region the guarantee of “staffing health professionals” to achieve “better health”, to which it has added as another fundamental aspect the recovery of the healthcare professional career.
As for the details of where the new Electoral Law should go, he has indicated that it is the PSOE who has to make the proposal before starting to speak. Along these lines, he asks the Socialists not to limit themselves to analyzing whether there needs to be more or less deputies, but with the premise of improving the “real representativeness” of the region.
