The PP and Vox will also govern together in Castilla y León
This is the third consecutive pact between the right and the far-right after those in Extremadura and Aragon
BarcelonaThe PP and Vox have already closed a government pact in Castilla y León. After the agreements in Aragon and Extremadura, the right and the far-right have sealed a new understanding for Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, who had already governed with the far-right, to repeat as president. Mañueco himself and the spokesperson for Vox in the Cortes of Castilla y León, Carlos Pollán, will detail the points of the pact this midday. And all this, while the two parties continue negotiating in Andalusia, where Juanma Moreno Bonilla also depends on Santiago Abascal's party to revalidate the regional presidency.
While waiting to see the fine print, Mañueco started from a slight position of strength in the talks, after having won the March electionsagreed to limit the rights of migrantsIn the case of Extremadura, the two formations agreed to limit the rights of migrants when granting "all public aid, subsidies, and benefits", including migrants with papers. Likewise, they put in writing their commitment to reject the arrival of irregular immigration through all channels, "legal, judicial, and political", even if it affects minors.
Not even a week later, PP and Vox followed the same path in Aragon to invest the popular Jorge Azcón. In this case, and apart from the "national priority", anti-Catalanism reappeared in the pact. The document collected the defense of "freedom in the face of indoctrination" with two star measures: "Free Aragon from the imposition of Catalan" and to pursue the "suppression of the Aragonese Institute of Catalan". That is, to eliminate Catalan in Aragon.
The PP and Vox already governed together in the previous legislature in Castilla y León. Mañueco, in fact, was the first PP leader who allowed the far-right to enter a regional government, an unprecedented event since the beginning of democracy. But the pact was broken when the state leadership of Vox demanded all its representatives to leave the regional executives in July 2024 due to the reception, accepted by the Popular Party, of 347 minor migrants from the Canary Islands.