Vox will vote yes to the investiture of Ayuso without asking to enter the Government

Vox will facilitate the inauguration of Díaz Ayuso in the first vote, without demanding in exchange to enter the Government.

"We will vote in favor of the investiture of Mrs. Ayuso without any doubt," said the party leader, Santiago Abascal, who stressed that his 13 deputies will vote yes to the PP candidate, so he will not need a second vote.

The head of the Vox list in the Community, Rocío Monasterio, assured that his party "will be decisive" in Madrid in the next two years.

The fact that the ultra party rules out entering the Madrid government does not mean that it renounces to condition its policies.

Monasterio pointed out that Ayuso will have to choose "between Vox and an abstention from the PSOE" and Abascal also left the ball in the hands of the Madrid president, stressing that she must decide "if she wants to govern by relying on left-wing parties or Vox."

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The composition of the new regional Assembly, in which the PP has more deputies than PSOE, Más País and Podemos together, makes the only alternative to Ayuso an impossible alliance between the extreme right and the entire left. But to carry out her projects, starting with the regional budgets that have been extended from 2019, the regional president will have to seek the support or, at least the abstention, of any of the remaining political forces and that is where Monastery assures that Vox "will be decisive ”.

Both Abascal and Monasterio congratulated Ayuso for his "extraordinary result" and declared that the objective that Vox had expressly set for these elections had been fulfilled, "to stop the social-communist assault on the Community of Madrid";

that is, to prevent the left from adding enough seats to unseat the regional president.

"The Popular Front has suffered an unmitigated defeat," proclaimed the first.

Photogallery: The night of the regional elections in Madrid, in images

They were also satisfied with the results of Vox in a context, said Abascal, of "censorship, violence and demonization by the media."

In reality, the biggest obstacle for their party, which they did not mention, was the Ayuso effect;

the fact that much of the Vox electorate preferred her to their own candidate, according to polls.

If so, the ultra party has managed to resist it.

In the last Madrid elections, with a participation of 64.27%, it obtained 8.8% of the votes and was the fifth force.

In the last general elections, with a 70.59% participation, it received 18.49% of the votes and rose to third place, only behind PSOE and PP.

This Tuesday, with a participation that even exceeded that of 10-N, he stayed halfway between both results, with one more deputy than the 12 he obtained in 2019 (although now there were four more at stake), becoming the fourth Chamber strength.

Beyond its results, Vox's mantra in this campaign was to "kick Pablo Iglesias" out of the institutions. Abascal again accused him this Tuesday of "sending his henchmen to blow up Vox rallies", alluding to the arrest of an employee of Podemos due to the disturbances in his electoral act in Vallecas. The ultra party sought face-to-face with Podemos and presented as a feat the clash of Monasterio with Iglesias in the frustrated debate of Cadena SER, aware that, like the

hooligans

of some football teams, there is only something that motivates more than the own victory: the humiliation of the opponent. In the end, Iglesias leaves politics, but not because Podemos has not reached 5% of the votes (he will have 10 seats in the Assembly) as Vox expected.

Hundreds of Vox supporters gathered outside the party headquarters chanting shouts like "They will not pass!"

and “Madrid will be the tomb of sanchismo”, until Abascal sent them home after 11 at night, so as not to breach a curfew that Vox will demand that Ayuso repeal as of next Sunday, when the state of alarm wanes .

It will be the first test of the influence of Vox in the regional president.

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