After taking over the first autonomous coalition government in Castilla y León last night, the PP-Vox “marriage” seems to be looking further and the idea of pacts seems to be no exception. Both organizations believe they have found a niche to oust Pedro Sánchez’s left-wing government.
The focus at the moment is on the relative fragility of the Moncloa Palace, largely due to the economic crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine and the unpopularity of changing the executive branch’s position on Western Sahara in favor of its ties with Morocco.
In this way, the PP does not seem too concerned about the series of cases of corrupt practices within the organization, with the focus being on the additional harsh penalties for the old Gurtel file and the wrongfulness of the hygiene masks of the Mayor’s Office and the Municipality of Madrid.
The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and the United We Can Block, all in government, have called for a clear statement from the new leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in which they criticize Vox in his extremist positions on sensitive issues such as equality reject the genders. and above all about historical memory. As an example, they used the apparent contrast to what happened in the first round of the French presidential election, where the traditional right asked for the vote of centrist Emmanuel Macron in the second round to prevent extremist Marine Le Pen from taking the lead Elysee.
Significant are the statements by the national leadership of the PP in support of the PP coalition with the party believed to be the brother of Le Pen’s organization in France, Vox, in Castilla y León. An unprecedented merger in Spanish history, which some analysts put in the shadow of the Franco dictatorship anyway.
Genoa, the headquarters of the PP, is defending the alliance and even welcoming a so-called new “concordance” law that will repeal the current historical commemorative decree to please supporters of Francoism.
Worse, the number three of the PP, the general coordinator Elías Bendodo, has not ruled out that an agreement could be repeated if they need Vox to reach Moncloa.
Our party is aiming for a sufficient majority not to be dependent on anyone, but it hasn’t closed the door on that, Bendodo told the press.
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