He is the ultra-advisor of the executive of Extremadura and one of the three that Vox had in the government of Castilla y León. The rest of the senior positions that the far-right held in the five coalition governments with the PP have disappeared.
One day after Vox announced its break with the PP in the five autonomous governments it shared, the far right is beginning to concretize its departure, although there are also first desertions. The only Vox advisor in Estremadura and one of the three he had in the autonomous government of Castile and Leon They have ignored the order and will continue in the PP leadership.
The counselor Extremadura’s forest management and rural worldIgnacio Higuero has announced that he will remain in his position and that he will leave the ranks of Vox next week. As he said, “changing the rules of the game in the middle of the game”, referring to Vox’s breaking of agreements with the PP, “is neither loyal nor fair.”
“I understand the turn that Vox has taken, but I do not share it and I cannot defend it,” Higuero added during a press appearance in which he was accompanied by the president of the regional government of Extremadura, María Guardiola. Higuero, who has been associated with Vox for ten months, has stated that his task is to defend Extremadura and “remove it from the leftist policies” that had this region “at the tail end of many things.”
Furthermore, the advisor of Culture in Castilla Leónthe ultra Gonzalo Santonja, will continue to lead the portfolio, but not the already dismissed ministers of Industry and Agriculture and the outgoing vice-president Juan García-Gallardo, all from Vox. This was announced by the president of the regional government of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, who has ruled out calling early elections and has explained that his intention is to govern only with specific agreements.
The rest of the senior positions held by the far right in the governments of Valencian Community, Aragon and Murcia They have already confirmed their departure.
The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascaltoday acknowledged the existence of “debates and different positions” within the party’s executive when taking the decision to abandon the autonomous governments they shared with the PP, but stressed that the resolution was ultimately adopted “by majority” and ‘collectively’.
Asked about possible defectors (the statements were made prior to the announcements of Higuero and Santoja), the far-right leader said that he “humanly and politically understands” that there are people who want to stay because “they have had to leave their jobs for a very short time,” has announced that they will be expelled from the party. “If those people stay, they will not be from Vox,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, the leader of the PP, Alberto Nunez Feijoohas stated that Vox has “gone off the rails” and “gone too far” and has stressed that the PP “will never act under any blackmail”.
Source: EITB
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