The PP guarantees the Ourense Provincial Council with an agreement with Jácome, which will retain the municipal command baton

Populares and Democracia Ourensana agree to allow the force with the most votes in both institutions to govern in an investiture pact

The PP and Democracia Ourensana (D.O.), the formation led by Gonzalo Pérez Jácome, have reached an investiture agreement in which they agree to allow the force with the most votes to govern, both in the City Council and in the Provincial Council, voting for their own candidate in the constitution of both corporations.

The practical effects of the agreement, to which Europa Press has had access, is that, except for surprise, Jácome will be able to retain the Mayor's Office of the city of As Burgas and the PP, with a candidate other than Manuel Baltar, after his resignation, maintain power in the Provincial Council.

In the document, signed by the leader of D.O., Gonzalo Pérez Jácome, and the mayor of Xunqueira de Ambía, José Luis Gavilanes, "by order" -gathers a manuscript- from number two of the Galician PP, Paula Prado, alleges that "The priority" of the signatory parties is to "guarantee the governability" of both institutions "respecting the majority sentiment of the people of Ourense" manifested through their vote on May 28.

Before transcending the document, through Twitter, Jácome had revealed the intention that he and the representatives linked to Democracia Ourense vote for themselves both in the constitution of the City Council and in the Diputación de Ourense.

"The representatives of Democracia Ourensana will vote for themselves in the constitution of the City Council and the OUrense Provincial Council. Therefore, on this occasion, the weight of the most voted lists will be decisive in the investiture of both corporations," he wielded.

He announced it on Twitter and, just a few minutes later, the PP of Ourense, whose candidate, Manuel Cabezas, who had always refused to negotiate with Jácome, had announced last night that he was offering his votes to the Socialists if they guaranteed the popular ones to continue in the Provincial Council, he has also reported that his councilors will vote for themselves. They justify it "given the impossibility of reaching an alternative" agreement.

"Yesterday the PP offered its votes to support the PSOE for the Ourense mayor's office, today it signs a written agreement with Jácome. There is a written agreement, it is a fact," he said, waiting for the votes to ratify the meaning of the agreement. agreement, the secretary of Organization of the PSdeG, José Manuel Lage.

"What are not stories, are accounts and it is clear that the PP preferred to agree with Jácome and not make Paco Rodríguez mayor when they learned that the BNG was willing to unite their votes," he added, to guarantee that the PSdeG will continue working to "change the dire policies that have Ourense in the caboose."

To questions from the media at the Santiago City Hall, the BNG leader, Ana Pontón, appealed to wait to find out what happens in plenary to pronounce herself, stating that the nationalists would never vote in favor of the PP or Jácome in any of the institutions