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Vox spain mass2/16/2024 ![]() Feijóo has explicitly made clear that he is willing to govern with Vox. Yet barring such a late surprise, apologists for Francisco Franco’s regime will likely be sitting in the next Spanish cabinet. The Partido Popular and Vox have spent the campaign demonizing center-left prime minister Pedro Sánchez and attacking the democratic legitimacy of his left-leaning coalition. But, according to political analyst Iago Moreno, this strategy has ensnared Sánchez’s campaign in “a reactive logic,” under which the PSOE has been unable to go beyond “simply responding to the provocations of the Right, whether around the removal of pride flags or Vox’s denial of gender violence.”Ī further major unknown is the level of mobilization on the radical left and whether deputy prime minister Yolanda Díaz can put months of damaging infighting behind her and lead a late comeback - particularly in a series of marginal constituencies where her new Sumar platform can potentially steal seats from the Right. Sánchez has sought to sound the anti-fascist alarm and position the PSOE as the tactical vote for all progressives fearful of what is to come. In this polarized atmosphere, the Left has struggled to respond. During a speech last week, he asked mail workers “to deliver all the ballots despite your bosses.” With its slogan “ Sanchismo or Spain,” the PP’s campaign has, in large part, dovetailed with that of Vox in its portrayal of the PSOE–Unidas Podemos government as a threat to the country’s constitutional order, accusing Sánchez of being in bed with supposed Basque terrorists and Catalan independence activists.Īlberto Núñez Feijóo, the PP’s candidate for prime minister, even leaned into a prominent online conspiracy theory that Sánchez was going to interfere with postal voting to fix the election. The PP and Vox have spent the campaign demonizing the center-left prime minister Pedro Sánchez and attacking the democratic legitimacy of his left-leaning coalition - and their combined efforts look set to translate into heightened mobilization of right-wing voters. Italian far-right leader Giorgia Meloni framed Sunday’s vote in Spain as one that could ‘change the direction of European politics,’ fundamentally altering the balance of power on the continent. Given such an outcome, the right-wing bloc would probably be able to count on the support of a small number of regional MPs from Coalición Canaria and Teruel Existe to secure a thin majority. El País’s final poll has them three seats short, with PP leading the center-left Socialists (PSOE) 32.9 percent to 28.7 percent (or 135 seats to 110) and Vox tying the left-wing Sumar party at around 13.5 percent (or between 36 and 38 seats each). The combined vote share of the conservative Partido Popular (PP) and Vox is predicted to reach between 46 and 48 percent - a historic high for the Spanish right, putting the two parties on the brink of an absolute majority. ![]() ”įinal polling before Sunday’s vote suggests a government along such lines is indeed the most likely outcome. Now, she said, “it is crucial that on July 23 a conservative patriotic alternative is established. “In Italy, as in Finland, Sweden, Poland, and the Czech Republic, we have shown that patriots can govern,” she claimed, referring to other parties in her continent-wide European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) alliance that have won high office in recent times. ![]() In a speech delivered remotely from Rome to a packed rally in Valencia, the leader of the post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia party framed Sunday’s vote as one that could “change the direction of European politics,” fundamentally altering the balance of power on the continent. “The time for patriots has arrived,” Italian premier Giorgia Meloni told supporters of the nationalist Vox party ahead of the general election in Spain this Sunday.
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