The advance of the extreme right in french presidential election has aroused tonight some of the first political reactions in Spainwho have compared the opposition in France to their accession to power against the pact of the PP and Vox to govern in Castilla y León.
Emmanuel Macron and the extreme right Marine LePen will repeat in the second round of the French presidential elections their duel of 2017, after the first round this Sunday left the outgoing president with a somewhat larger margin of advantage than expected by the polls.
The second vice president of the government and Minister of Labour, Yolanda Díaz, has affirmed tonight on social networks that “This is bad news. that the extreme right can win the presidential elections in France”.
“I am confident that the French people will defend democracy with their vote on April 24. We must raise a horizon of hope and rebuild society to isolate hate,” Diaz wrote on Twitter.
Gabriel Rufianspokesman for ERC in Congress, commented: “04/10/2022. France. The right announces a cordon sanitaire to the extreme right after the election results. 04/11/2022. Spain. In Castilla y León, the first autonomous government of PP and VOX will be invested after weeks of negotiation. And then why do we talk about Franco?
Along the same lines, the former socialist minister Jose Luis Abalos, currently deputy of the PSOE and president of the Interior Commission of Congress.
“In France – Ábalos said – the democratic parties are clear about it. Socialists, ecologists and conservatives call on their voters to vote for Macron in the second round. It is a matter of defending freedoms. In Spain, tomorrow Mañueco consummates his pact with VOX “.
Inés Arrimadas, president of Ciudadanos, congratulated French President Emmanuel Macron “for his clear victory in the first round of the French presidential elections, which hopefully will be confirmed in the second.”
?? My congratulations to @EmmanuelMacron for his clear victory in the first round of the French presidential elections, which hopefully will be confirmed in the second. High-minded conservatives and socialists giving him their support to defeat extremism. That is sense of state ?
– Inés Arrimadas (@InesArrimadas) April 10, 2022
“Great height of sights of conservatives and socialists giving him their support to defeat extremism. That is a sense of State,” Arrimadas stressed.
Ione Belarra, General Secretary of Podemos and Minister of Social Rights, Instead, he congratulated the leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon for its result in the elections, with 20.37% of the ballots.
“Your support forms a great block of resistance in defense of social rights and democracy, which is going to be the only real alternative to neoliberalism and the extreme right. From Podemos, by your side,” Belarra wrote on social media.