The far-right Spanish party Vox has been on the executive board of 140 municipalities in Spain since yesterday thanks to agreements reached with the People’s Party, the winner of the elections that took place on May 28. “In more than 140 municipalities in Spain, common sense will prevail,” said Santiago Abascal, the leader of Vox.
This Saturday, all plenary sessions were composed of elected councilors in the country’s more than 8,100 municipalities, who then chose the mayors.
Vox received 1.6 million votes, almost doubling the number of votes, and elected 1,665 councillors. It was still the party with the most votes in 30 municipalities and had an absolute majority in 26, although all the places where it won were small.
In a statement, Vox said that in the municipalities in which it will be part of the executive branch, “ideological councils, such as equality councils, will disappear” and that it will take over portfolios such as security, “work to eradicate violence, squatters, sexual assaults and all kinds of street crime”. A few days ago, one of his deputies in the Parliament of the Valencian Community, José María Llanos, declared that “male violence does not exist”.
The PP won regional and municipal elections worldwide, to which Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez responded by bringing parliamentary elections to July 23. The PP managed to get the most votes in 28 of Spain’s 52 provincial capitals, in addition to victory in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. In addition, in a pact with Vox, he captured provincial capitals such as Burgos, Guadalajara, Toledo and Valladolid from the PSOE.
In Barcelona, the party with the most votes was the independentist Junts, but the socialist Jaume Collboni was elected mayor thanks to the support of the left (Barcelona and Comú, by former mayor Ada Colau) and the right (PP).
Source: DN
