Overview
- Negotiations are described by party sources as slow, with no formal rupture, as María Guardiola pushes a single multi‑year pact that includes 2026 budgets, executive posts for Vox and a Mesa deal.
- The Partido Popular’s 29 seats give it the parliamentary presidency, while Vox’s 11 are pivotal for the investiture and for shaping representation on the chamber’s governing body.
- Vox is pressing programmatic demands such as cutting the Assembly from 65 to 33 deputies, a change that would require an electoral‑law reform and would not take effect until the next legislature.
- Reporting from the talks suggests Vox could enter the regional government with a vice‑presidency and two ministries, potentially including Agriculture, though no agreement has been finalized.
- PP is weighing Abel Bautista to preside the chamber despite internal rules that could complicate the move, and analysts note that a PSOE–Unidas alignment could leave Vox without Mesa posts.