The far-right party Vox, in coalition with the conservative Partido Popular (PP), this Saturday formed an alliance that could influence next month’s elections in Spain.
The medieval city of Toledo and the northern city of Burgos are among the municipalities that elected members of the PP-Vox coalition following local and regional elections on May 28.
Vox said in a statement it will try to clamp down on “ideological divisions” such as Equality, which “wasted” millions of euros and “didn’t solve the real problems”.
The victory of the PP and Vox in May’s elections prompted government leader, socialist Pedro Sánchez, to call early parliamentary elections for July 23.
Experts indicate that the PP will win a majority in most constituencies but will have to ally with Vox to form a government.
Sánchez has made this threat of an ultra-conservative, anti-feminist government the central theme of her reelection campaign.
An agreement between the PP and Vox to govern the Valencia (East) region, the country’s fourth most populous region, sparked controversy on Thursday.
The head of Vox in Valencia, José María Llanos, unleashed an avalanche of criticism when he said that “macro violence does not exist”. The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who wants to maintain a moderate image, tried to distance himself from this remark, writing on the social network Twitter that “gender violence exists and the murder of every woman shocks society”. “In the PP, we will not take a single step back in the fight against this scourge,” he added.
Source: DN
