1- "National priority" as a guiding principle in all agreements: preference in access to aid, subsidies, and public benefits for "rooted" individuals and not newcomers.2- Reinforced roots: to access aid, a reinforced minimum period of registration and connection with the territory is required.3- Exclusion of undocumented individuals: people in an irregular administrative situation are excluded from structural social benefits (healthcare, aid) and only have access in cases of vital emergency.4- Rejection of hosting migrant minors: commitment not to offer new reception places and to actively work to return unaccompanied minors to their countries of origin.5- Entry of Vox into governments with ministries.6- Anti-Catalanism (only in Aragon): commitment to "free Aragon from the imposition of Catalan" and to suppress the Aragonese Institute of Catalan.7- Fiscal cuts and deregulation: tax reductions and a specific ministry of "deregulation".8- Hard line against illegal housing occupation.9- Symbology and memory: declaration as a cultural asset of the Francoist monument of the Cruz de los Caídos in Cáceres (Extremadura); suppression of Arabic language teaching in public schools; laws of concord.10- "Shielding" the primary sector against the Green Pact and Agenda 2030.
Everything the PP has conceded to Vox to maintain regional power
Juanma Moreno is invested Andalusian president after yielding on "national priority" and incorporating the far-right into the government
MadridPP and Vox have closed the last of the pending pacts. After reaching an agreement in Extremadura, Aragon, and Castilla y León, Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party and Santiago Abascal's party are closing the circle in Andalusia with the investiture of Juanma Moreno thanks to the votes of the far-right. The popular candidate did not overcome a first vote two days ago, but this Thursday afternoon he has managed to leave the Andalusian Parliament as president after having overcome the last hurdles of the negotiation with Vox 'in extremis'. Once again, the "national priority" and the incorporation of the far-right into the government have been part of the core of the pact and are the two main concessions that the PP has been making to Vox for months to maintain regional power.
Juanma Moreno Bonilla had been one of those who had most clearly expressed himself against national priority and had also expressed the will to govern alone, but he too has ended up accepting Vox's conditions in order to avoid a repeat election. Finally, the far-right will enter the Andalusian government with a ministry with the rank of vice-presidency. It will be held by its leader in the territory, Manuel Gavira, who will have the portfolios of tourism, deregulation, justice, and local administration. Moreno has admitted that it is not what he initially wanted, but has defended that, in this way, the far-right will become "co-responsible" for governability and it will be easier to have "coordination, complicity, and common objectives". The Vox leader in Andalusia, for his part, has promised to be a "loyal partner".
Vox has also achieved the vice-presidency of the Parliament of Andalusia and a senator by regional designation. Positions that the PP loses. However, the main victory of the far-right is having managed to impose its framework – on matters such as immigration – on the regional leader who embodies the moderate soul of the PP. Once even Moreno has gone through the process, the next step is to replicate the same in Moncloa with Feijóo, who has already assumed that the price to pay to govern, in a context in which absolute majorities are increasingly chimerical, will foreseeably have to be what four of his barons have already accepted.
The Vox framework
Although both Moreno and Feijóo had invoked the "proportionality" of the results – the PP was just two seats short of an absolute majority and was almost thirty points ahead of Vox – to try to lower demands, the signed agreement contains the most controversial points of the previous three agreements. The wording of "national priority" in access to public aid is identical, as is the point that rejects the reception of immigrant minors and the one that proposes their repatriation. It also contemplates conducting an annual audit of the health cost of care for foreign populations and of "all expenses linked to massive immigration". It also includes the commitment to ban the burqa and niqab in public spaces, as well as the elimination in schools of the Arabic language and Moroccan culture program. On the other hand, "the history of terrorism in Spain" will be included in the study plans.
Another element included is the "total suppression of subsidies to NGOs that promote illegal immigration". When PP and Vox agreed on this point in Extremadura, they clashed in interpretation, as Abascal's party threatened Cáritas while the popular party denied that the Catholic Church's organization was in danger. Democratic memory is once again in the crosshairs and the agreement contemplates the approval of a "concord law" that revises the historical interpretation of Francoism. Vox's program on climate matters also manifests itself with the commitment not to finance low-emission zones, the "rejection of impositions of ideological agendas in environmental care" and not to create "regional burdens derived from the Green Pact" and "Agenda 2030" in the Andalusian countryside. Another of the 150 points is the vindication of bullfighting.
With contained expression, Moreno has defended that it is a "reasonable", "sensible" and "calm" agreement that will be "positive" for Andalusia. The Andalusian president admitted that he has "different angles of vision" with Vox on agreed matters, such as immigration or Agenda 2030, but justified the need to make this "effort of approximation". Gavira celebrated that the popular party had listened to "the will of the Andalusians" that there be more Vox, although the far-right only increased by one seat, a growth far below what it had in Extremadura, where it doubled its results. The Andalusian left criticized that it is an "agreement of shame".