Only Vox is comfortable with Giorgia Meloni’s triumph in Italy. His electoral result gives wings to the far-right party at a time when it was experiencing its lowest hours, with the bad result in Andalusia and the open crisis with the slam of the door on Macarena Olona. In these circumstances, the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, stuck out his chest: “Millions of Europeans have their hopes pinned on Italy.”
It was the only one, because the PP, which intends to tiptoe around the victory of Vox’s sister party, limited itself to summoning the new prime minister to “have a clear commitment to the European Union.” In fact, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who spoke before the national executive committee, in an open speech, did not even mention the Italian elections. And it is that the PP moves between the obligation not to attack Meloni, since it will form a government, among others, with Forza Italia, which is part of the European People’s Party, and the need not to rejoice in this victory because it can only give wings to Vox, at a time when the PP believed it was controlled.
Those who spoke in the PP were the barons, freer in their opinions, and all hinted that the result in Italy “is not the one they like the most.” That is why they took the popular reaction to the ground that does not create any problem for them, because it unites them: “If it shows anything, it is the failure of socialism.”
The freest was the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, freed from his possible dependence on Abascal’s party, after his absolute majority in the June elections. “I hope that it respects the values ??and objectives of the European Union and our values, beyond respect for democracy and diversity,” he said upon arriving at the PP executive committee in Madrid.
What the Andalusian president did do was call for reflection on the reasons for the rise of radical positions. “I don’t like any political position being radicalized,” he said.
Along the same lines, the president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, asked the new Italian government for “a clear commitment to the EU” and for “political stability in the economies of the Euro Zone”.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for her part, assured that “there are some parts of the speech” of the coalition that has won in Italy “that do not match” her thinking, but there are others, such as “the diagnosis of the situation in Italy”, which Yes; and she pointed out that this result advances the debacle of social democracy and the coalition government headed by Pedro Sánchez.
In any case, the PP and the PSOE agree on something: that what happened in Italy will not be repeated in Spain. “Italy is very unique,” they say in the PP, who do not believe that the results can be extrapolated to Spain. That same reflection was made yesterday by the Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, who from the legitimacy of the results, made it clear that they cannot be transferred to Spain. “Spain has nothing to do with it, and each country has different circumstances,” he said, while warning about “miraculous solutions” to difficult situations, which are “pure populism and demagoguery.” It always “ends in catastrophe,” he warned.
On the left there is concern about the results of Italy, but the analysis that the partners make of what happened is very different. While Yolanda Díaz believes that what happened is “sad news that has to be taken note of in our country”, the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, believes that “the victory of the Italian extreme right has to do with the normalization of the discourse of hatred and the lack of brave policies that protect a social majority”. The purple leader also warned that “Spain is not free to experience something like this.”
The United Left does not think the same, whose federal spokesperson, Sira Rego, is convinced that the results of Italy will not be repeated in Spain, because “our reality is totally different”, although she believes, like the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, that it is “very bad news” and that “we must take note”. Also for Citizens it is “bad news for Italy, but above all for Europe”.
