The constitution of the Town Halls throughout the Spanish geography draws a map where the municipal power is dyed in blue PP what four years ago was drawn in red PSOE. The Socialists have lost their territorial muscle and of the 10 main cities in Spain, the ones with the most inhabitants, only Barcelona and Las Palmas govern, this town with former minister Carolina Darias, thanks to a tripartite agreement with Nueva Canarias (NC) and United Yes We Can (USP). The capital of Gran Canaria thus also becomes a “symbol” for the PSOE, as evidenced by the fact that Isabel Rodríguez, spokesperson for the Executive and Minister of Territorial Policy, has traveled there.
“It is a symbol for what Darias represents, for what women represent,” Rodríguez has exposed, who wanted to emphasize that it will be a woman, and a socialist, who holds the command rod. In addition to congratulating on behalf of the Government all the mayors and councilors who take office this Saturday, he has taken the opportunity to attack the policy of pacts between the PP and Vox that has led to the eviction of the PSOE in more than a hundred towns, the socialists having been the most voted list. “I cannot ignore how some of these Town Halls are being formed.”
The Moncloa sees in the Government pact in the Valencian Community, with the popular ones accepting the term “domestic violence” and representatives of Vox denying that sexist violence exists, a flank of attack against Alberto Núñez Feijóo in this electoral pre-campaign. “With these shameful agreements, Feijóo's PP has been willing to sell women's policies to a far-right force, thus questioning the entire development of these public policies throughout all these years,” Rodríguez pointed out.
A strategy that has been supported by the Minister of Education and PSOE spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, from Borja, where she accompanied the Socialist candidate for Mayor, Eduardo Arilla, at his inauguration ceremony, after obtaining an absolute majority on May 28. “On July 23, women will be a containment dam to prevent that Spain of setbacks and cuts that the PP and Vox want to propose to us does not become the reality of the country2.
Isabel Rodríguez, from Las Palmas, has called on “moderate right-wing women” against these “shame pacts, which eliminate women's councilors and make us go back on progress and even question something so serious, that concerns us all, such as gender violence”.
“Each chair of those who have achieved the PP and Vox shows that they bury that false idea transferred by Feijóo that the most voted list governed, so each chair represents a setback. In addition, you don't play with sexist violence, it is something very serious, I am with the women and the victims or I am with Vox”, added Alegría from Borja.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, through his social networks, has also referred to the constitution of the City Councils, with a message on his social networks that can also be interpreted as an implicit allusion to the PP pacts with Vox. “Today, the town halls are constituted in Spain with full institutional normality. Congratulations to the socialist mayors and mayors and to those who, from the opposition, will serve your neighbors. Let's keep advancing in rights and transformations”.
The PSOE has managed to govern in Las Palmas with Darias thanks to a tripartite that was signed this week. Carolina Darias has indicated that “the programmatic agreement has been developed based on extensive knowledge of the municipality, on an accurate diagnosis. An agreement that revolves around seven major objectives, whose purpose is to make a more prosperous, more inclusive and cohesive city ; healthier, more sustainable; a city in which mobility is a backbone and a creative and innovative city, which is at the forefront of progress policies”.