Madrid. The Spanish far-right party Vox announced this Sunday that it would support, without setting conditions, an investiture of the leader of the conservatives so that he can be sworn in as Prime Minister, an unlikely scenario after the July legislatures.
The head of the right-wing Popular Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who came out on top in the early general elections on July 23, immediately celebrated the “advance” that “acknowledges the victory” of his party.
“The proposal that I make is a proposal for a lone government of the Popular Party,” he said from the autonomous community of Galicia, his birthplace.
Until now, the far-right party Vox demanded to enter the Government as a condition to support Núñez Feijóo.
Vox entered a regional government for the fourth time on Friday, after reaching an agreement with the PP in Aragon, in the northeast of the country.
The extreme right also governs in coalition with the conservatives in Castilla y León, Valencia and Extremadura.
His change of strategy occurs when the block on the right is at an impasse.
During the last elections, Pedro Sánchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) came second with 121 seats, behind the PP’s 137.
However, Sánchez is in a better position to form a government than his rival because of the alliance game.
Sánchez can claim a parliamentary majority thanks to several regional parties, mainly Basque and Catalan, although that includes winning the support of Junts per Catalunya, the party of Carles Puigdemont, the pro-independence leader who declared Catalonia’s failed secession in 2017 before going into hiding. in Belgium.
The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, denounced in a statement on Sunday that a Sánchez government “would constitute a serious threat to the constitutional order” and would entail “the possibility that Sánchez would even grant a self-determination referendum” in exchange for the vote.
Abascal announced that “the 33 Vox deputies would support a constitutional majority” in Parliament to “form a government that avoids such threats”, in a clear nod to the PP.
Núñez Feijóo would, however, need a few additional votes to be sworn in and to be able to govern alone.
Several small parties have ruled out supporting a PP-Vox coalition and it seems unlikely that a sufficient number will change their minds.
And support from the PSOE for the PP, except for a great surprise, is ruled out.
In addition to the four regions, PP and Vox have reached agreements to govern a dozen large Spanish cities, including Valladolid (center), Toledo (center) and Burgos (north).
These pacts aroused numerous criticisms, especially from the left, since the PP aligned itself with various controversial positions of Vox.
