Overview
- María Guardiola was elected Extremadura’s president on Wednesday with 40 votes from PP and Vox, under a pact that favors long‑term residents for public aid and social housing.
- Vox’s move in the Congress on Wednesday to enshrine that ‘national priority’ statewide failed after every other group opposed it, with PP only offering an amendment that Vox refused.
- The Spanish government warned on Tuesday that Madrid could forfeit €668 million tied to the State Housing Plan if it refuses the plan’s conditions, which the Ayuso administration argues breach regional powers.
- Opposition parties blasted the Extremadura pact as empowering Vox and risking unequal treatment—PSOE said “Vox runs the show,” and Unidas por Extremadura mocked the clause as “prioridad nazi‑onal”—while PP insisted the measures hinge on residency rules that must fit state law.
- The turbulence spread to local politics as PP registered a no‑confidence motion to take Lugo’s mayoralty with the help of an ex‑PSOE councilor, drawing charges from the incumbent of exploiting deaths and defection and warnings from the BNG that the move lacks a civic mandate.