Spain Leans Right in Local Elections
In Spain, the turn to the Right has aimed closer to center, bypassing VOX.
In Spain, the turn to the Right has aimed closer to center, bypassing VOX.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of Partido Popular, has pledged to repeal the law if his party wins December’s elections.
The VOX chief assailed Spain’s mainstream press, accusing “all of the media, almost without exception, Left and Right” of manipulating narratives and slandering his party in an attempt to destroy it.
If the open-air killing of a clergyman by an Islamist doesn’t prompt a reckoning, it’s hard to see what will.
“It is not about Left, Right, or Center, but about not remaining inactive as our institutions erode, our democracy deteriorates, and our state weakens,” asserted the manifesto, read out during the demonstration.
The pro-life measures are meant to promote the birth rate and comprehensive support for families.
PP’s leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, stated that if he can avoid a coalition with VOX, he will do so, but that this does not depend on him, but on the election results.
The conclusion of the judicial-political stand-off remains to be seen, but the Spanish courts appear unmoved by scolding from the EU.
El Debate reports that VOX faces competition on various fronts to capture the votes of those disaffected by the politics of the previous four years.
VOX won 14 seats, increasing its presence in the local government by two deputies, but seeing its influence diminished compared to the last regional parliament, and achieving results far from the hoped for 20 seats.
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