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DThe oath of the Andalusian regional government, which will take place this Wednesday in Seville, marks a turning point in Spanish politics. For the first time since the end of the Francoist dictatorship, a far-right party is represented in a Spanish House of Representatives – and immediately plays a key role: because it can only form a minority government with the Liberals, the Conservative People's Party (PP) he assured the support of right-wing populists – although Vox represents anti-constitutional positions.
This Andalusian pact brought criticism from all over Spain to the new coalition. And even warnings from France. For a long time Spain could boast of being free of populist right-wing mass movements. Up to the left of Andalusia in the December regional elections, the national right-hand Vox of the stand won twelve parliamentary seats.
In the election of the new prime minister in the parliament in Seville Vox this Wednesday will contribute with the necessary votes to the conservative Juan Manuel Moreno who can be sworn in as head of government. It is the end of an era, for 36 years Andalusia has been ruled by the socialists (PSOE).
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The socialists suffered a quarrel in the most populated region of Spain after decades of domination. From the state, the far-right party Vox moved to the parliament of Andalusia.
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Without Vox the transfer of power would not have succeeded, the People's Party and its coalition partner Ciudadanos only brought it to 47 of the 109 deputies. His help charged Vox dear. Conservatives had to sign a plan in 37 points, including a new law to promote bullfighting and flamenco, and more subsidies for private religious schools, where boys and girls are taught separately.
Regional responsibilities in the areas of justice, education and health care must be reduced to the benefit of a central state, even if this does not allow the Constitution. So the representatives of Vox had to say goodbye to some of their requests, even more abstruse ideas, such as the idea of introducing a new holiday: on January 2, in which the Catholic kings in 1492 the Moors of Granada, their last bastion, distributed.
The request to immediately remove 52,000 illegal immigrants from Andalusia was not included in the government program. However, the People's Party has now made a strong commitment to apply "the law in force" without any concession to immigration policy – which Vox sells as a points victory.
This deal was negotiated by Javier Ortega Smith, Secretary General of Vox. The lawyer is a fervent patriot who made headlines two years ago while he was scratching three miles across the waters off Gibraltar to raise the Spanish flag over the British crown colony. He himself called the "Operation Tarzan" action.
The negotiations between the People's Party and Vox have been followed with great tension throughout Spain, because it seems clear to everyone that this new coalition government's pact with the right-wing nationalists is by no means just a regional issue. "We came to stay", announced the head Vox Santiago Abascal.
Weakness of conservatives
He could be right. According to the first survey of this year, Vox would reach almost 13% of the votes in the national elections. The fact that the party, which was founded at the end of 2013 and which was previously considered meaningless, is experiencing this push is due to three developments in Spain: the country is currently the most important gateway for migrants traveling to l & # 39; Europe.
The scandalous cases of corruption of the Andalusian PP and PSOE cost a lot to the confidence of the voters on both sides. And finally, Catalan separatism has fueled a new Spanish nationalism as a countermovement, and more and more Spanish flags have appeared on the houses not only in Andalusian cities.
The rise of Vox is also due to the weakness of conservatives. For decades, the People's Party represented a broad political spectrum, which included not only the supporters of Franco, but also monarchists and legal citizens. But when the last conservative government of Mariano Rajoy did not find a solution to the Catalan crisis and overthrew the corruption scandals last summer, the right wing populist right wing of the PP found a niche.
According to recent surveys, the Popular Party will receive only 19% of the votes, with 33% in the last poll of 2016. To stop the electoral loss, the new party leader, Pablo Casado, was now copying the sometimes grotesque rhetoric of Vox. "There will be no clitoral circumcision and no massacre at home," Casado recently said in Andalusia.
A new law, which should better protect women from male violence, is decidedly rejected by Vox, and the leader of the Abascal party sees this as a general condemnation of men. Now some conservatives want to question the law again. On Tuesday, women's demonstrations against Vox and a possible backward step in parity issues took place in about 50 cities. "Our rights are not negotiable," said the protesters' banners, which were supported by over a hundred different women's organizations.
The municipal elections are in full force in May and Vox's march fears are over, as is Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, whose minority government is bothered by the overwhelming defeat of the PSOE. With heated words, Sánchez criticized the new alliance in Andalusia. Vox, the Popular Party and the Liberals Ciudadanos are "the new Bolsonaros of Spain", said Sánchez, referring to the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, which represents a radical legal course.
"Problem for all of Spain"
It is not a pact with right-wing populists – this criticism has come not only from the left-wing camp and not only from the conservative Popular Party, but above all from its liberal coalition partner: Ciudadanos Despite trying to prove the maximum distance possible to Vox, the it will also avoid common photos as much as possible.
But even if the secretary general of Ciudadanos, José Manuel Villegas, never tired of ensuring that the pact between the Popular Party and Vox is not binding, that the new coalition is based on Vox's support, it can not be denied. Liberals must also accept the allegations of their allies.
For example, Manuel Valls, the former French prime minister working for Ciudadanos as a mayoral candidate in Barcelona, warned that it should not cooperate with the forces that want to violate the constitution. "This creates a problem for the whole of Spain".
And from France, the Minister of European Affairs, Nathalie Loiseau, said: "There should be no compromises with right-wing extremist parties, for the Macron government, which was so proud of rejecting the right-wing populists with its" La République In Marche "of a" cordon sanitaire ", that is a constant contempt, the behavior of Ciudadanos is a slap in the face.Finally, we want to run in a common alliance for the European elections.
Chief Vox Abascal, on the other hand, is a fervent admirer of Marine Le Pen, head of the Rassemblement National in France. Andalusia is only the first stage of a long march for Vox.
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