Right Gets First Chance To Form Government in Spain
Even if Feijóo loses the vote, an improved relationship between the PP and VOX would be a positive outcome.
Even if Feijóo loses the vote, an improved relationship between the PP and VOX would be a positive outcome.
In an almost comedic turn of fortune, a recount in Madrid—to the benefit of the conservative PP—could mean the socialists will require the single in-person vote of exiled Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont.
Everything points to Spain being Europe’s Venezuela, and the government will ultimately be chosen by all of Spain’s enemies.
With Spain in the EU presidency and European elections coming up next year, the shortfall of the Right in Spain is having repercussions in Brussels as well.
Were the PP to govern now, it is unlikely that it would try to resolve the asymmetries of the Spanish system on display during these elections, especially with Núñez Feijóo at the helm.
Pegasus, Catalonia, and recent vote rigging scandals have fueled an atmosphere of distrust in the electoral process. Most polls predict a comfortable victory for the Right in this week’s Spanish parliamentary elections.
While legacy media wrings its hands over the prospect of a VOX victory on July 23rd, Latinos for Abascal is hoping to propel the party into power.
Apart from VOX, whose position as third largest party in the country and junior party in a future coalition with the PP is likely, a few more parties are worth mentioning.
The coalition agreement also pledges to increase direct support for families, help the elderly, reduce taxes, cut red tape, and reduce “socially unproductive political spending” such as funds for separatist or pro-Catalan organizations.
VOX and PP are cooperating at a regional level, while the Spanish Left warns that a national coalition between the centre and populist Right could alter the European balance of power.
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