The far-right Vox party established itself, this Saturday, in a coalition with the conservative Popular Party (PP) at the head of ten Spanish cities, in an alliance that could be repeated in next month’s elections. The medieval city of Toledo and the northern city of Burgos are among the municipalities that elected members of the PP-Vox coalition after local and regional elections on May 28.
In a statement, Vox assured that it will try to suppress “ideological departments” such as equality, which “wasted” millions of euros and “did not solve the real problems.”
The victory of the two parties in the May elections led the head of the Government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, to call early legislative elections for July 23. Polls indicate that the PP will achieve 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 and anti-feminist government the central theme of his re-election campaign.
An agreement between the PP and Vox to govern the Valencia region in the east, the fourth most populous in the country, caused controversy on Thursday. The leader of Vox in Valencia, José María Llanos, unleashed an avalanche of criticism when he said that “macho violence does not exist.”
Meanwhile, the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who wants to present a moderate image, tried to distance himself with a tweet in which he wrote that “gender violence exists.”
“Every homicide of a woman shocks us as a society. In the PP we will not take a step back in the fight against this scourge ”, she has written.
Source: TSF
