The stability at four pesetas of the PP

To no one's surprise, the pact between PP and Vox in Andalusia has been consummated, executed in two stages for the sake of decorum. If one reads the right-wing newspapers, it might seem that Abascal's party has graciously ceded its support for a few peanuts, half a lemon from the back of the fridge, and a packet of Pop Rocks. "Moreno is re-invested after ceding a vice-presidency to Vox in a minimalist pact," headlines El Mundo, in a rather discreet module on its front page. "Moreno signs 'stability' in exchange for a vice-presidency," reiterates La Razón. Bringing it to the realm of positions defuses the political weight of the most worrying measures and dilutes everything into an exchange of trading cards on a Sunday at the Sant Antoni Market. Furthermore, it is already known that vice-presidencies often have a more ornamental than executive flair. And invoking stability makes the whole thing a matter of responsibility. But even Planeta's newspaper eventually admits afterwards that 150 measures have been signed. Good thing it was minimalist.

In any case, other newspapers do not let it pass so lightly. "Moreno yields to Vox's demands to govern Andalusia. The PP includes the ultras in the government and assumes 'national priority'," say the title and subtitle of the matter in El País. "Vox enters the Junta and imposes national priority," seconds La Vanguardia. Ah, these headlines already contain evident traces of fascism and other allergens that contaminate the pact and seek to make it clear that the regional agreements blessed by Feijóo have the political cost of shifting the PP to the right of the right, that is, the far-right, to put it in the term that has become proscribed in the whitewashing newspapers of neo-authoritarianism. The right's strategy is clear: minimize the tolls of its future alliance with Vox in the Spanish government. These are the tough guys for four pesetas that Feijóo promises... and his media court.