From Mazón to Prohens, passing through Feijóo
The president of the Balearic Islands government, Marga Prohens, reached a budget agreement with Vox on Friday, as hard-fought—in every sense—as the one reached by the Valencian regional government. To gain the support of the far right, both Mazón and Prohens have had to embrace the entire program of the far right, something they have done effortlessly. We have already commented on other occasions that the ideological proximity between the Popular Party and Vox is very close to full identification, with more formal and cosmetic nuances. Are there people within the PP who do not fit that extremist profile? Perhaps so, but party interests overrule any objections these people (or that sector, if there is anything that can be considered a liberal or moderate sector of the PP) may raise.
The PP's tactics and strategy, also at the regional level, converge on a single overriding objective: to remove Pedro Sánchez from the Moncloa and bring in Alberto Núñez Feijóo, both by any means and at any price. There is no other. The pacts between the PP and Vox began to take place after the last municipal and regional elections, then were interrupted due to thescared Santiago Abascal's party, much more over-the-top posturing than a real break. Relations were finally resumed when Mazón, cornered by his shameful handling of the DANA (National Action Plan for the Defense of Socialism), needed to cling to Vox's plank to keep the legislature afloat and save himself from becoming the political corpse that everyone—including the PP—took him for granted.
Feijóo, who was also unable to handle the problem posed by Mazón, was surprised by the Valencian president's maneuver, and now seems to be adopting it as well: the PP is once again establishing budget agreements with Vox in exchange for meeting its demands, while at the same time constantly turning to the PNV and Juntos. They want to push through a motion of no confidence against Sánchez, around whom the PP and its media construct a toxic and suffocating narrative of serious institutional irresponsibility. Prohens and his team, meanwhile, from their mediocrity, are simply following orders from Madrid.
What Prohens has adopted is a declaration of burning hatred against the people of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera. A ruthless destruction of democratic freedoms, civil rights, social policies, and the territory, which could be definitively crushed by savage deregulation. And above all, a frontal attack on Catalan, an obsession bordering on pathology, whose approach proposes the marginalization and liquidation of the Catalan language. As one of Vox's representatives rightly said, we want the PP to abandon its complexes. They're right, they're just forcing them to take off their masks. But even so, no president of the Balearic Islands, not even the eccentric José Ramón Bauzá, has ever sunk as low as the Catalan-speaking Prohens.
