Spain’s first regional government, in which the far right, a conservative ally, is taking part, received a green light from the local parliaments of Castile and Leon on Monday, an unprecedented development in the more than four decades since the restoration of democracy in Iberia.
Alfonso Fernandez Manieko, of the People’s Party (PP, right), will rule a leading alliance with the far-right Vox party in this rural district of 2.4 million north of Madrid, a right-wing stronghold for 35 years.
Vox will have three “ministers” in the regional government and will also chair the local parliament.
This is something that had never happened before with this party, which until yesterday elected at most members in the regional parliaments.
In February, in the early elections in Castile and Leon, which won the PP, Vox won 13 of the 81 seats, while he had only one in the outgoing regional parliament. Thus he secured, together with the party of the traditional right, an absolute majority in the body.
“This coalition government (is) a possible alternative for the whole of Spain,” Boxing chief Santiago Avascal told reporters, who did not hide his ambition to see the scenario repeated in other regions but also nationally. in the next elections, which will normally be held in less than two years.
In a decentralized country where the autonomous regions wield broad powers, the Vox, a supranationalist and anti-immigrant party consisting of critics nostalgic for the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975), aspires to turn Castile and Leon into labor. of.
“We will not hide the government’s concern about the fact that the far right is taking on government responsibilities” in Castile and Leon, was the reaction of the representative of the center-left central government, Isabel Rodriguez, who criticized speaking to Antena 3 “The Spanish right embraces the extreme right.”
Vox was founded in 2014 and its election results made it considered rather marginal, until the end of 2018, when it entered the local parliament of Andalusia (south), traditionally a stronghold of the left and most populous region of Spain.
In the 2019 parliamentary elections, Vox became the third strongest parliamentary faction nationally, behind the Socialists and Conservatives, occupying 52 of the 350 seats in the Spanish national delegation.
Polls suggest that he is stepping up his power in the upcoming elections, even approaching an absolute majority in parliament in co-operation with the PP.
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