The day after the republican barrier was announced in France to prevent the victory of the extreme right in the second round of the presidential elections, in Castilla y León the PP assumes the government under a canopy without complexes with Vox
In her speech after the announcement of the electoral results, last Sunday night, the far-right candidate for the presidency of the Republic for the National Regrouping (RN, 23.4% of the votes), Marine LePenunderlined the points with which he had hit Emmanuel Macron (La República en Marcha, 27.6%) the end of his campaign: the social crisis, the social fracture, the objective of the protective State, the national union. Le Pen invited her voters to choose between the division, injustice and disorder imposed by Macron and the regrouping of the French around social justice and protection. She is, as she has already said several times, the “people’s candidate & rdquor; against a “World Cup president or the president of the rich & rdquor ;.
For this reason, he pointed out: “The place that we want to give people in our society against the power of money depends on your vote. I think, for example, of the importance we give to solidarity with the most vulnerable, the possibility of guaranteed rights or access to retirement in good health.”
And, likewise, he cast the fishing rod on the left-wing electorate of Jean-Luc Melenchon (Popular Union, 22%), a sector that wants to punish Macron. And to which Melénchon, still, has not launched the explicit proposal to vote for the incumbent president.
demonization
Starting with Macron’s victory over Le Pen in the first and second rounds of the 2017 elections (24% against 21.3% and 66% against 33.9, respectively), what will be a twist on the process begins. of what was called the ‘desdiabolisation’ or demonization initiated with the succession of his father, Jean-Marie LePenin January 2011, when his daughter Marine obtained in the internal elections of the then called National Front (FN) 67% of the votes against his rival, Bruno Gollnish.
After its defeat in 2017, then, the FN becomes the National Regrouping (RN). And he emphasizes his speech in the social and labor issue. To the point that many confuse his proposals with left-wing approaches when in reality he defends a neoliberal politics disguised as redistributive or pseudo-Keynesian proposals.
spanish lessons
What lessons can be shed by the evolution of the extreme right of Marine LePen on Spanish politics and, more precisely, on the development of Vox?
24 hours after the defeated parties called to vote for Macron or not give a single vote to Le Pen, Spain demonstrated, once again, that it is different. This Monday, April 11, the investiture ceremony took place, so to speak, of the coalition Vox-Popular Party in the Autonomous Community of Castile and Leon. A coalition that replaces that of PP-Citizens.
Alberto Nunez Feijoo gave the green light to that coalition although yesterday he decided to make a ‘Rajoy’, that is, he did not attend the first government formed under his leadership. Whoever was the open promoter of that coalition, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the godmother of the pact announced that she is going to attend the inauguration of the president Alfonso Fernandez Manueco next April 19.
“That we do not care what the left thinks of our pacts & rdquor ;, declared on February 15 Isabel Diaz Ayuso. And for those who understood that this referred exclusively to Castile and Leon, the Madrid president clarified on March 25 that she did not make an error, as had been interpreted, when she declared that she governs with Vox. “It was not a slip, it was a declaration of intent & rdquor ;, she specified.
Tame Vox
Feijóo bets on the domestication of Vox. The match of Santiago Abascal It moves like a fish in water in the main institutions, starting with its appeals for unconstitutionality and amparo in the Constitutional Court.
The combination of media and jurisdictional repercussions –through popular accusations– multiplies by several times the 53 deputies that it has in the Congress of Deputies.
And now he has entered the Government of Castile and Leon after having contributed to governance in Andalusia, and to condition it now to the point that, probably, early regional elections will be precipitated in June in said autonomous community. And, with it, the possibility of a reissue of the substitutism of citizensan operation that has taken place in Castilla y León.
lurking danger
In the case of Vox, unlike the National Regroupment of Marine Le Pen, the demonization it is driven from outside. For the PP. What does it mean if not that the investiture speech by Fernández Mañueco, in which he has consecrated the “generosity & rdquor; of his and Vox’s party when agreeing on the investiture agreement, or his call for a coalition executive “Without complexes”, a la Aznar, who is going to work like a” pineapple”? Or the swaps of the new law to fight against “domestic violence” aimed at creating new rights and protecting the victims proposed by Vox in parallel to the law to combat gender violence, or the “law of concord” in competition with the existing historical memory?
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French politics, due to its tradition, is a source from which it draws European politics. His two great games, the socialist (1.7% of the votes) and the conservative, the old Gaullist party of Chirac and Sarkozy (The Republicans, 4.8%) have suffered a historic defeat. And the extreme right, divided between Marine LePen (23.4) and Eric Zemour (7%), it is a danger.
If the process of demonization of Vox and its orientation to use a “social” language to cover its far-right program in the background as Trump progresses, that danger may grow in the upcoming electoral Spain.