This Tuesday, Vox MP in the Balearic Islands, Sergio Rodríguez, had to have a snack. strong (in Mallorca, they have a snack in the morning, you know that) and he finished his speech at the Parliamentary lectern, congratulating Pedro Sánchez and all the fans on "Victory Day." He was referring to the day of the Victory of the fascist insurgent troops against the democratic and legitimate government of the Republic. You already know what it's about: that statement that said "the Red Army was captured and disarmed", two hundred thousand dead and a forty-year dictatorship of executions and institutionalized corruption. When the president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, was urged by opposition groups to call Rodríguez to his orders, and to order that his words not be recorded in the minutes, he simply responded, with a smile." that Le Senne is also from Vox, that he became sadly famous when he tore up some photos of Aurora Picornell and the Rojas del Molinar (murdered by the fascists during the War) and that today he has an ongoing judicial process for these events. He remains in office only because the PP supports him.
In the Valencian Country, Minister José Antonio Rovira (the one behind the failed referendum to corner Catalan in public schools) is pleased to have drastically cut the funds allocated to the promotion of Valencian and the Valencian Academy of Language (AVL). Rovira is from the PP and does not need Vox to push him to act against Catalan, because he has an unhealthy obsessionBut Vox has saved the budget of the Valencian Generalitat, and with it the political survival of a president, Mazón, scorched and amortized by his infamous behavior during and after the DANA (Revolutionary National Assembly) on October 29th, and now has the PP in its hands once again. The aforementioned Sergio Rodríguez, from the Balearic Islands, a few days after the new agreement between the PP and Vox on the Valencian budget, told Marga Prohens that "the Valencia agreement points the way." Prohens and her executive are once again bending over backward to please their intermittent partners on the far right, and with that goal in mind, they are reviving the plan for linguistic segregation in schools, or promoting a decree to free up land in Palma and pave the way for urban speculation. For the ultra-nationalist right, attacking the Catalan language and culture isn't enough: they also need to carve up the territory. And pocket the proceeds, naturally.
The PP and Vox are distinct but complementary versions of the far right, combining elements inherited from Franco's regime with others borrowed from the European far right and Trumpism. They are using the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community as testbeds for what their coalition government in Spain could look like, which, despite all the disagreements, they would form tomorrow if they had the chance: hence Feijóo's insistence on calling for elections.
