Vox criticizes the PP while supporting 90% of its proposals in Congress | Spain

To escape from visible vox discomfort to the punishment that inflicts Europe from its admired Donald Trumpultras deputies in Congress have been recovering speech against bipartisanship days. Socialist and popular, Santiago Abascal and his denouncing, are equivalent, the two forces that, in equal parts, maintain the « bureaucracy of Brussels » and the green pact that « ruins our field. » No one has come as far in that comparison as the parliamentary spokeswoman of the party. Pepa Millán took advantage andl Recent trip of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to China To argue that the objective of the PSOE and the PP is to constitute « a unique party » as the communist of the People’s Republic.

That belligerent Vox attitude seemed to be reflected in the votes of the last plenary of the lower house. Breaking with their custom, the 33 ultras deputies did not join a request from the PP to appear for the Minister of Agriculture to account for « their plans to defend the Spanish agri -food system. » And voted against a proposition of the Popular Law on the transport concessions of road travelers. The PP, on the other hand, opted for a position that has been lavishing before Vox initiatives loaded with extremist rhetoric: it does not support them, but does not reject them frontally and take refuge in abstention. This time it happened with a motion that requested measures to repatriate Spaniards residing abroad, a step prior to expelling immigrants residing here. He voted against the rest of the camera, including Union of the Navarrese people (UPN), usually aligned in the right block.

This Vox punishment appeasement who is still their partners in dozens of municipalities and with whom He has just agreed the Valencian Community Budgetsdoes not correspond at all with his career so far from the legislature. Because in the last year and a half, the extreme right has been an almost constant support for the PP in Congress.

From His favorable vote to the failed investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, In September 2023, Vox has supported 90% of the proposals that the PP has taken to the Plenary of the Chamber. A review of the 210 initiatives of the popular voting in this period – including the motions and propositions of law that are broken down by points precisely to gather the greatest possible supports – shows that Vox has given the yes to 187. In another 14 – after 7% -, abascal and their colleagues they have refrained and only in seven – they have 3%.

Some of these very scarce noes of the ultras to the PP have been in irreducible matters of their ideology. Last month, for example, Vox rejected a proposal of the law of the group of Alberto Núñez Feijóo that contemplated a series of measures to guarantee the functioning of the sections of violence against women in the courts. And that used just that expression, « violence against women », and not the « macho violence » that is anathema for the ultras. Other VOX dissensions with the PP have been on migration policy, such as adhesion texts to the general strategy on the subject marked by Brussels. Or to some extent to protect minors in the digital environment. In February, the extreme right abstained in a popular motion to Show support to Ukrainewhen Trump lavished the gestures of hostility towards the government of Volodimir Zelenski.

That almost constant Vox hand towards the PP has not found an exact reciprocity. But neither as much so that the popular have neglected gestures in the votes that avoid bothering their only ally in the Chamber with the lonely deputy of UPN. Of the 165 proposals taken to the Plenary for the extreme right, the popular have supported 65, almost 40%. And when they have not agreed, they have often avoided total dissension, as shown in the high number of abstentions ―60, 36% – compared to 39 NOES – less of 25% -.

The popular have voted against some of Vox’s most extreme measures on immigration, such as motions that denounced the « invasion » of foreigners; On fiscal policy, a proposal to establish a unique section of 15% of IRPF for income between 22,000 and 70,000 euros, or on equal policies. They also opposed another that advocated ending subsidies to political parties and social agents. On the other hand, they supported initiatives of the Abascal Party to suppress social aid to young immigrants in internment or to hinder the registration in the municipal register of foreigners without papers and illegal housing occupants.

In that relaxation policy, consisting of not supporting but also not oppose front supported the taking into consideration of the popular legislative initiative that promotes that measure-, before another who advocated that birth in Spain does not entail the automatic concession of nationality or one more with measures to combat the « demographic winter. »

The greatest coincidences between the two main opposition parties occur in issues on the institutional functioning that lead to a critique of government actions. The popular ones joined the Vox proposal to reform the election system of the General Council of the Judiciary and another that intended to recover the previous appeal of unconstitutionality, that is, that the mere admission to process in the Constitutional Court of the appeal against a law entails its immediate paralysis. There has also been an almost total coincidence between the PP and Vox in voting on issues related to the Dana catastrophe in Valencia.

So far from the legislature, a total of 1,092 votes have been registered in the Plenary of Congress. The government as a whole or its main party, the PSOE, has conceded 96 losses, 8.79% of the total.