Not because expected, the government agreement between the Popular Party and the extreme right of Vox in Extremadura is less alarming and reprehensible, as Pedro Sánchez warned this Friday from Brussels. But this new government pact between the two right-wing parties -the third autonomous coalition, after that of the Valencian Community and that of Castilla y León- also produces “a clarification of the political scenario” for the citizens before the next general elections on the 23rd of July, stated the President of the Government. Because he makes it clear that only two possible alternatives for Spain will come out of the polls: “Either a far-right coalition government, between the PP and Vox, or a progressive government between the PSOE and Sumar.”
After the municipal and regional elections on May 28, Sánchez assured, “the Spanish have two new pieces of information.” The first is that “the PP will govern with Vox wherever they join.” And the second is that, to the left of the PSOE, “where yesterday there was fragmentation, today there is a single project”, which is the one led by Yolanda Díaz with Sumar. Therefore, the only two possible government coalitions in Spain after 23-J are already formed.
“In Extremadura, what we knew was going to happen has happened,” lamented the chief executive. “That where they can govern, because they give the numbers, the PP and Vox will govern,” he pointed out. And that, in view of the government agreement between these two political formations, “we also know that wherever there is a coalition government, that territory is going to regress, unfortunately.” “And consequently, Spain is going to go backwards,” he warned. “We must all take note of what is happening in the different governments and in the different programmatic agreements that Feijóo and Abascal are reaching,” said Sánchez.
But it has differentiated the coalition of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos in this legislature, from what could be a government alliance between the PP and Vox. “It is one thing to agree with political parties to cut rights in exchange for votes, and quite another thing is to agree with political parties, as we have done these five years, to advance rights,” he highlighted.
“What we are seeing where the PP is governing and agreeing with the ultra-right is an obscene reduction of rights in exchange for votes,” he denounced. Removing an LGTBI flag from the façade of a public institution, he has pointed out, “is taking away rights.” “It is not just removing a flag, it is not recognizing rights that are recognized by law and enshrined in our Constitution,” he pointed out, in the middle of Pride week. “And that deserves the most resounding reproach, at least on my part,” he said. “It causes embarrassment,” he stressed.
Sánchez has also assured that in Brussels he has held talks these days with different European leaders. “They are frankly surprised and upset with the regression that is taking place in certain debates where Spain had been an example and right now we are being a counterexample,” he lamented.
