The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has celebrated the breakup of the PP and Vox regional governments and has asked the national leader of the ‘popular’, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to repeal the “counter-reforms” approved during this year and also to break the pacts with Santiago Abascal’s party in the town halls.
In a press conference in Washington, at the end of the NATO summit, he said that the socialists will make a “constructive” opposition and their support for the autonomous governments governed by the PP will depend on the policies that are put on the table in each community. In any case, he said that It is “a great day for Spain” and that, after the break-up of the PP and Vox governments, it is “a better country” and therefore he has pointed out that he cannot hide his “joy and happiness”. In this sense, he has warned that in the coming days there will be a lot of “politicking” to interpret who benefits or harms this new situation, but, as he has pointed out “the net beneficiaries of the departure of the far right from the regional governments is the social majority of Spaniards”.
However, Sánchez has stressed that this is a decision that Vox is making and therefore asks the PP to break with the policies that it has approved with Abascal’s party to date. Firstly, he demands that it accept the reform of the Immigration Law so that the distribution of migrant minors among the autonomous communities is mandatory. According to him, it would be “the litmus test” that the PP “has broken with Vox’s policies”, given that this crisis is caused by the refusal of this formation to accept the distribution of migrant minors. The president considers that It has been proven that the strategy of “governing with the far right has failed” and reiterates that this is great news for the Spanish people, because these governments have approved “ultra-right” policies on issues such as gender violence, democratic memory, social services and quality of public services, ecological transition and also climate change, as he listed.