A few hours before the investiture council meeting, at which the 17 elected councillors will vote to choose Manilva’s next mayor for the next 4 years, this newsroom has learned of the existence of an investiture agreement signed by Jose Manuel Fernández of the Partido Popular and Antonio Marín of VOX, under which Marín will facilitate the government and the investiture of the Partido Popular candidate.
This agreement, which has the approval of the provincial leaderships of both parties, means that any governing team that may be formed must accept and implement a number of points to work on, which we will report as they become known.
Marín will not join the government
For his part, Antonio Marín, the VOX candidate, will not demand a place in the government, showing a broad-mindedness that seeks to promote his party’s democratic values and to keep out of the institutions people who are involved in various legal proceedings. Marín will use his vote to support all the agreements that are necessary during the term, provided they are projects that bring progress to the municipality, and will give any government that may be formed tomorrow the stability needed to secure a majority.
4 + 1 do not make 9
This agreement, signed between the Partido Popular, which as we recall won 4 councillors, and VOX, which won 1 councillor, would still fall short of the support needed to form a government. All signs point to the missing support coming from the Izquierda Unida councillors (4 councillors), who have kept a very low profile over these two weeks, although we have learned that they have been meeting all the political forces except VOX, thereby following the guidelines of their provincial leadership. However, everything suggests that the similarities and overlaps between that party’s programme and the Partido Popular’s (car parks, day centre, work on the Castillo de la Duquesa…) could lead Agustín Vargas’s councillors to cast their investiture vote for José Manuel Fernández, who would then have enough votes to be proclaimed the town’s next mayor for the next four years.
