The right and the Spanish extreme right today assumed power in 10 large Spanish cities, including Toledo and Burgos, in an alliance that could be repeated in the general elections next month.
Members of the conservative Popular Party (PP) and the far-right Vox were sworn in after winning local and regional elections on May 28.
Vox stated in a statement that it will try to suppress “ideological departments” such as those for Equality, which “have squandered” millions of euros and “have not solved the real problems,” the AFP news agency reported.
The victory of the PP and Vox in the May elections led the head of government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, to call early legislative elections on July 23.
The polls indicate that the PP will achieve a majority in a large part of the constituencies, but it will have to establish an alliance with Vox to form a government.
Sánchez has made this threat of an ultra-conservative and anti-feminist government the central theme of his campaign to be re-elected.
A pact between the PP and Vox to govern the Valencia region, the fourth most populous in the country, caused stupor on Thursday.
The head of Vox in Valencia, José María Llanos, unleashed an avalanche of criticism when he said that “macho violence does not exist.”
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who wants to present a moderate image, immediately tried to distance himself and tweeted that “gender violence exists and each murder of a woman shocks us as a society.”
“From the PP we will not take a step back in the fight against this scourge,” he added.
Until now, Vox had only governed in coalition with the PP in the northern region of Castilla y León.
Founded in 2013 by former members of the PP, Vox is the third political force in Parliament.
Among the other cities where the PP-Vox coalition took over the municipality today are Alcalá de Henares, where the writer Miguel de Cervantes was born, and Móstoles, on the outskirts of Madrid.
Source: Ambito
