Extremadura, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, three mirrors

The PP is confirming itself after 28-M as a party of deep contrasts, and of interests, depending on the geography where it is implanted.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
20 June 2023 Tuesday 10:30
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Extremadura, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, three mirrors

The PP is confirming itself after 28-M as a party of deep contrasts, and of interests, depending on the geography where it is implanted. In the Valencian case, the mirror reflects the acceleration of complicity with Vox to form, as soon as possible, a new executive chaired by Carlos Mazón. Through a pact in which the popular hold executive control of the future Council, as well as more than 92% of the budget; but where the formation of Santiago Abascal has contaminated the scenery with his cultural story, embodied on the paper of an agreement that appeals to the denialism of gender violence or climate change, among others. Enough so that any signature of the Vox theses of any of its deputies, as happened last Friday in the mouth of José María Llanos, forces Feijóo and Mazón himself to defend the reality of macho terrorism. Episode that, logically, can have continuity in other chapters and in other areas. There is concern in Genoa and it has not just been ruled out that some point of the pact between the PP and Vox could be renegotiated.

There is another mirror, that of the Balearic PP. The extreme right has taken over the Presidency of the autonomous Chamber after a preliminary agreement signed a few hours before the constitution of Parliament. The PP gives up the presidency of the Chamber in exchange for a minimum program that incorporates most of Vox's demands: freedom of choice of language in education, elimination of the requirement of Catalan in health, aid to combat "violence intrafamiliar” and an audit to define the possible political responsibilities in the case of abused minors under guardianship. Parliament is chaired by Gabriel Le-Senne, an ultra-Catholic and liberal candidate, lawyer and legal officer responsible for training in the Islands and author of the book God made us free; apology for Christianity and liberalism. Pay attention to the conflict that is coming with Catalan in the Balearic Islands.

A third mirror is Extremeño, an autonomy where the PSOE was the most voted party. Here the PP, through its candidate María Guardiola, puts a stop to Vox's extremist discourse and prevents those of Santiago Abascal from occupying plots of power in the executive. "I cannot let into government those who deny gender violence, those who use the bold stroke, those who are dehumanizing immigrants and those who unfurl a canvas and throw an LGTBI flag into the bin," says Guardiola, aware that autonomy may be doomed to repeat elections. There are specific local keys in Extremadura; a sociology dominated for years by socialism and which now resists having Vox take the lead in regional politics. Important.

Three mirrors that offer altered images of the adaptation of the same party, the PP, to the demands of Vox. Or perhaps, for Genoa, everything is part of a superior story according to which a mirror can be broken, like the one from Extremadura, and guarantee others that are a guarantee of extension of territorial power, such as the Valencian Community or the Balearic Islands; Geographies, moreover, of enormous strategic importance. In a calculated modulation of the PP so that it does not appear as excessively devoted to the cultural stories of Vox in Spain. What happened in Barcelona is also part of this complex equation. Between now and 23J many of these doubts will be cleared up.