In reality, it was a decision legitimized by the head of the Government Board of the autonomous region of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández-Mañueco, but it is a bad sign for the arrival in April of Núñez-Feijoo at the leadership of the PP.
It marks the return to the time of the Franco dictatorship, saving the differences because it is the first time that it happens in a democracy.
Worse still, Donald Tusk, head of the European People’s Party and former president of the European Council, described this Thursday as capitulation the PP agreements with Vox in Castilla y León.
“For me it is a sad surprise,” Tusk said at the end of a summit of EPP leaders in Paris, which was attended by the still president of the PP in Spain, Pablo Casado.
“Ultimately, it is a capitulation. I hope it is just an incident or an accident, and not a trend in Spanish politics,” the Polish conservative politician completed.
Faced with the barrage of internal criticism and from abroad, Núñez Feijoo was quick to stress that he had no impact on the step taken by Fernández Mañueco.
Even so, criticism rained down on him from the entire Spanish left, nationalist organizations and from the centrist Ciudadanos party itself.
The Vox platform denies the abuses and violations against women; it rejects existence at the level reached by the pandemic; it is xenophobic; homophobic; he ponders protectionism, rejects globalization and is eurosceptic.
Vox will hold the presidency of the Cortes de Castilla y León and will have notable responsibilities such as the vice presidency and three departments of the coalition government.
Winner of the elections last February, Fernández-Mañueco rejected the proposal of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) not to object to a solo administration in exchange for some agreements.
Vox’s attorney, Carlos Pollán, will be the president of the Cortes of Castilla y León, while the head of the far-right party in the autonomous community, Juan García-Gallardo, will serve as Fernández-Mañueco’s second.
What happened is quite similar to the maneuvers of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, described by local analysts as an exponent of Trumpist tactics (Donald Trump’s style), seeking with populist actions to gain weight and project himself towards the presidency. of Spain in the not too distant future.
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