Vox votes for its own candidate for the presidency of Congress after failing to obtain support from the PP to enter the Table

He also does not support the PP candidates for the Vice-presidency and loses his seat on the Chamber Table

The PP has informed Vox that it is not going to contribute to achieving a position in the new Congress Table, so the 33 deputies of the group chaired by Santiago Abascal have voted for their own candidate for the Presidency. The same situation occurred later in the vice-presidency vote.

From Vox they have specified that it was this Thursday morning when they received a call from the PP to inform them of their decision. As they point out, the notice came after verifying the 'popular' that the agreements reached by the PSOE with ERC and Junts guaranteed the socialist candidate, Francina Armengol, to be elected president of Congress, beating the PP candidate, Cuca Gamarra.

Vox details that, when the PP verified that it could not reach the Presidency, those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo have chosen to tie up for themselves two vice-presidencies and two secretariats, without ceding any of these positions to Vox, which had demanded a vice-presidency, the the same position they held in the previous legislature, when they had 52 deputies.

Before the media after collecting his deputy act in Congress, Abascal already wanted to make it clear on Wednesday that Vox is the third political force in Spain and represents three million Spaniards, so they should have a presence at the Table.

FEIJÓO HAD ALREADY ANNOUNCED THEIR FOUR NAMES

But hours later, Feijóo himself already made public that, in addition to Gamarra for the Presidency, the PP would fight for other positions in the Table and even advanced the names of his candidates to be part of the governing body of the Chamber.

Given the lack of agreement with the PP, the 33 representatives of Vox have supported their deputy for Valencia Ignacio Gil Lázaro first in the vote for the election of the Presidency and later they have also done the same in the one destined to designate the vice-presidencies.

"It is the second time in a democracy that the third parliamentary force is not represented on the Table and, given this lack of will of the Popular Party, Vox votes for its candidate for the presidency and vice presidency," justify those of Abascal.