The party Vox has officially communicated that it will not participate in negotiations with the rest of the opposition to articulate an alternative candidate in a no-confidence motion against the mayor of Leganés, Miguel Ángel Recuenco, of the Popular Party. This decision comes after the confidence vote linked to the municipal budget for 2026 failed last Friday.

The opposition has a 30-day period to present a no-confidence motion, but would need to achieve an absolute majority, set at 14 votes, for it to be viable. The mayor had proposed the confidence vote with the aim of passing the municipal accounts, which amount to 228 million euros.

From the local leadership of Vox, they have categorically ruled out any agreement to present a joint candidate. This stance decisively closes the possibility of building an alternative majority to the current local government, composed of the Popular Party and Unión por Leganés.

For its part, Más Madrid has also not shown willingness for broad negotiations with the entire opposition. Its spokesperson, Carlos Poblete, has stated that the party does not "rule anything out," but has limited any eventual agreement to "progressive parties," an option that he himself has acknowledged as difficult given the Plenum's arithmetic.

Poblete has also questioned that presenting the confidence vote for the second time represents “an act of bravery,” but rather “an act of cynicism and propaganda” by a minority government that, he stated, resorts to any mechanism to remain in office. The spokesperson for Más Madrid has defended that his group has no obligation to validate a budget or a city project with which it fundamentally disagrees, thus maintaining its political rejection of the municipal accounts promoted by the local executive.

With Vox's refusal and Más Madrid's conditions, the no-confidence motion is practically ruled out even before a formal negotiation begins among the opposition groups. The prospects for articulating an alternative to the current government have faded almost irreversibly.

The municipal government has not shown surprise at this situation. The first deputy mayor, Carlos Delgado, of Unión por Leganés, has stated that the “strange coalition of opposition interests” blocked the confidence vote held last Friday. Delgado has maintained that there will be no alternative government because, in his opinion, the opposition groups “have neither proposals nor any alternative.” The leader of Unión por Leganés has concluded that the process opened after the confidence vote will mean “the loss of a month” for municipal management.