Vox, from red line to green pea
The left was most entertaining fighting at its own door, what if Sumar ignored Podemos, what if the PSOE ignored Sumar, and in this the PP arrives and agrees in a flash the Government of the Valencian Community with Vox. It is seen that it is easier to share power when you win, because the more in favor the polls go, the less those of Feijóo hesitate to agree with Abascal. There was a hint of a red line, but it has cleared up quickly. It was urgent to share the ministries.
A first meeting of barely two hours has been enough to bring a coalition government with the ultra-right to the Valencian orchard. And, unlike the one found in Castilla y León, here Feijóo can no longer attribute it to the inheritance of Pablo Casado. It is this PP that is going to govern with Vox in the Valencian Community, the one that gives it a vice-presidency and the ministries of Education, Social Affairs and Agriculture; also the one that prepares agreements in 135 town halls for this Saturday in the middle of the pre-campaign of 23-J. The one from Elche has already been formed.
Who would have imagined that instead of being an obstacle it would end up being an advantage to have someone convicted of abuse as a candidate for the PP to reach an agreement with Vox. Thus, for the pact between the two, it has been enough to move the abuser away a little, as if it were a pea or a chilli, something that bothers a bit, but it is not necessary to take it off the plate to continue eating.. Banning the abuser does not make Vox more palatable, but at least it helps the PP to appear that it has not given in at all.
The express pact in Valencia makes it clear that in Genoa they have stopped fearing the electoral consequences of coming to terms with the party that until a week ago Feijóo tried to ignore and avoided even naming.
Borja Sémper said hours before the agreement that the national PP would in no case accept a pact with an abuser, that it was a red line for Genoa, that someone like that should not even engage in politics. And it is true that Carlos Flores will not be in the new Valencian government, but it has been by doing politics with him that the PP has forged the pact. In order not to want to do politics with an abuser, this seems a lot like.
It has been with this abuser with whom the PP has negotiated the pact in a room of the Valencian Cortes; It has been the abuser who has announced the pact in which Vox has boasted of achieving “relevant ministries”, and it is the abuser who has appeared in the photos with the PP delegation. The agreement does not imply removing the abuser from politics. Carlos Flores has received an award in the form of a seat. It will be number one in the lists of his party for Valencia to the Congress of Deputies. That is, he will be a deputy in the next legislature. And the more the PP normalizes the agreements with Vox before the 23-J elections, the less likely it is that it can govern without their support.
In case there was any doubt, the abuser himself celebrated it by saying that with this agreement he does not take a step to the side, but “a step forward.” It wasn't a red line, it was a pea. They have set it aside a little to eat it later.