Spain’s New Parties
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.
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.
It is dubious that Spain’s likely PP-led government will allow VOX to steer it away from its commitments to the UN’s 2030 Agenda, or away from acting like a slightly less ‘woke’ PSOE.
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.
The former socialist mayor has warned that holding elections during the summer, requiring holidayers to vote by post, may be a set-up for electoral fraud.
Spain’s administrative elections signify that the electorate has totally rejected Pedro Sánchez and his socialist government.
By calling for early elections, Sánchez is likely working to deny the country’s right-of-center opposition any additional time to further increase its share of the vote.
In Spain, the turn to the Right has aimed closer to center, bypassing VOX.
Spain’s local elections are setting the stage for general elections in December.
Votes were apparently being bought for €50-200 in a massive surge of fraudulent voting which VOX suggests might have been organized by Morocco.