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 painful one performance that the former Minister of the Interior and Justice of the Generalitat Valenciana, Salomé Pradas, offered a few days ago before the judge who is investigating the disaster of October 29 in the Valencian Community –as David Miró says– a stark exposition of an entire way of understanding politics. Needless to say, none of the tears shed by the former president (also a former senator) before the court were directed at the 228 victims of the DANA. No: Salomé Pradas was crying for herself, for her bad luck. She was crying out of grief and surely also out of rage, wondering how this could have happened to her.

The painful one performance that the former Minister of the Interior and Justice of the Generalitat Valenciana, Salomé Pradas, offered a few days ago before the judge who is investigating the disaster of October 29 in the Valencian Community –as David Miró says– a stark exposition of an entire way of understanding politics. Needless to say, none of the tears shed by the former president (also a former senator) before the court were directed at the 228 victims of the DANA. No: Salomé Pradas was crying for herself, for her bad luck. She was crying out of grief and surely also out of rage, wondering how this could have happened to her.