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According to historian Sophie Baby, the right and the far right are defending the country’s unity to the point that they may strike a pact to oust the left from power after Sunday’s general election.
Sophie Baby, lecturer at the University of Burgundy, participated in writing the history of contemporary Spain (Armand Colin, 2021). She decodes the risks of Sunday’s election, in which should the People’s Party (PP) win without an absolute majority, the extreme right would be able to enter government.
Like Vox, founded in 2013, Has he settled into the Spanish political landscape so quickly? ?
Vox’s first coup in December 2018 was the result of the Andalusian regional parliament elections: 11% of the vote and 12 seats. Thanks to their support, the PP was able to wrest this stronghold from the Socialist Party. Four months later, the party entered the Congress in Madrid with 24 MPs, and then with 52 in the November 2019 elections. In March 2022, Vox entered a regional government for the first time: that of Castile and León in coalition with the PP. The extreme right then gets the vice presidency of the region and three advisory posts (the equivalent of a minister): agriculture, industry and culture. In the last elections in May, PP-Vox pacts allowed the left to take over two more regions as well as several major cities.
What decisions have already been made by these elected Vox officers who are now in charge of public order?
Since then, the balance sheet has been limited