Another MP criticizes Abascal and leaves Vox for breaking with the PP: “I felt like a puppet”

Early yesterday, Agustín Buades presented his resignation without notice and then left the Vox WhatsApp group of the Balearic Parliament. Upon leaving the chamber, the former deputy attacked the party leadership for having “unilaterally” broken all pacts with the PP under the “pretext” of the distribution of unaccompanied foreign minors. “Explain to me why they had to break a pact between Marga Prohens’ PP and Vox in the Balearic Islands, which was going well and we were getting a lot of things?” asked Buades, who is very critical of his national leader, Santiago Abascal. The decision announced on July 11 came as a surprise to the regional leaders themselves. Abascal decided that the pact was also broken in the Balearic Islands, where Marga Prohens was the only PP leader to govern in a minority, thanks to an investiture agreement of 110 measures with Vox. A pact that ousted the socialist Francina Armengol from the presidency of the Balearic Islands after eight years of left-wing tripartite. “What cannot be is that from Madrid they make decisions without warning and without giving us explanations,” says the outgoing MP in a telephone conversation with ABC, after having “released the toad and left alone two months after the coup d’état of the Abascal command.” and after “much reflection”, Buades decides to leave the Balearic parliamentary group, where he says he “felt like a puppet” in the hands of “ten people” from the party leadership: “They expected me to press the button and vote every Tuesday.” which they said, but at 65, I can only leave for the sake of consistency. Related News standard No Prohens demands that Vox leaves the presidency of the Balearic Parliament Mayte Amorós The president of the Balearic Islands will continue to govern in minority with the electoral program of the PP as the only “road map”, Buades affirms that the Balearic agreement does not include any point where those of Abascal oppose the distribution of immigrant minors. In addition, he insists that the powers in terms of protection do not belong to the regional government either, but are rather transferred to the Consell of Mallorca. He considers that Abascal’s decision implies a “lack of commitment” to the voters and that it responds to other “hidden interests”. Buades does not leave his seat to continue “defending the ideas of Vox” as a non-member. And he emphasizes that he has not unsubscribed “because Vox is my party, a necessary party that defends Spain, the family and life” to which he will continue to pay his dues. The national leadership asks him to return the report and describes his explanations as “excuses”. In a statement, Vox accuses him of not understanding “the exercise of coherence and commitment to citizens” and also hopes that he “stops fueling interested and destructive controversies”. Buades responds: “They have not understood the loyalty of a person to his voters. It is a pact supported by the voters who asked us to change a left-wing government with a pact of 110 points. Whoever allows this pact to be broken without reason is the one who must submit the minutes. The former Vox MP did not inform the party of his departure and no one contacted him afterwards. Only his colleagues Idoia Ribas and Sergio Rodríguez understand his decision: “I don’t need to tell anyone, I owe it to the 65,000 people who voted for the Balearic Islands to change government.” Buades has been one of the most critical voices against Abascal’s “order and command”. Six months ago, he was on the verge of being expelled from the party for disobeying directives and for trying to expel the party’s regional president and the Balearic Parliament from Vox, allying himself with four other rebel regional deputies following Buades’ departure. Vox with six deputies – out of the eight obtained in the elections – in the Balearic Parliament and is worsening the serious internal crisis that the party has been going through in this community almost since the beginning of the legislature. In one year, Vox has lost two seats in the Balearic Islands and the crises have not stopped. In October, the Minorcan MP Xisco Cardona left and now Buades is leaving. Both will be non-registered MPs. Buades was part of the bloc of five rebels who tried in January to expel the president of the regional parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, and the leader of the islands, Patricia De las Heras, who were currently elected. the only two MPs loyal to Abascal. The party filed a complaint against them but the expulsion did not take place for a matter of arithmetic. If they left, Vox would be dismembered and in the minority with only three MPs. In the months that followed, the national leadership apparently managed to bring Manuela Cañadas and María José Verdú back to the majority: five. The rebels Buades, Ribas and Rodríguez founded the civil association Avanza en Libertad, with the same ideology as Vox. Buades’ departure leaves the parliamentary group even more fragmented. The PP has 25 deputies, the whole of the left combined, although the president Marga Prohens usually has the vote of the deputy of Formentera, Llorenç Córdoba, and the non-attached Xisco Cardona, but she is three short of a majority. Ribas and Rodríguez are the rebel group within Vox and are practically alone, although they have not spoken publicly about the coup d’état by Abascal that broke the agreements with the PP. The rest of the Balearic deputies of Vox remain faithful to the guidelines of Madrid, although there are serious disagreements between the “camps” formed by Le Senne and the president of Vox in the Balearics, Patricia de las Heras, and the spokesperson Manuela Cañadas and María José Verdú. Expulsion of Le Senne next week, the vote will take place in. in the regional parliament a motion presented by the left to expel Gabriel Le Senne (Vox) from the presidency for having involuntarily removed the photo of Aurora Picornell, victim of the Francoist party during the civil war. Buades says he will vote against it because he does not share the left’s thesis that it is a hate crime. However, he believes that Vox’s break with the PP implies that Le Senne leaves the presidency of the Chamber, since it is an agreement that emanates from the now broken pact. Le Senne, in any case, remains in the hands of the will of the popular people, who have not yet revealed their definitive position.

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