Eduardo González
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has celebrated “the rejection of the extreme right” and the victory of “the social left” both in the legislative elections this Sunday in France and in those held last Thursday in the United Kingdom. For his part, the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, asked for the union of the “political center” to “prevent extremists from directing its future” and the Government reproached him for his government pacts with Vox.
“This week, two of the largest countries in Europe have chosen the same path that Spain chose a year ago: rejection of the extreme right and a decisive commitment to a social left that addresses people’s problems with serious and brave policies,” declared Pedro Sánchez through the social network X. “The United Kingdom and France have said YES to progress and social advancement and NO to the regression in rights and freedoms,” he continued. “With the extreme right there is neither agreement nor governance,” he concluded, in clear reference to the PP.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, celebrated, in statements to Radio Nacional de España, that the extreme right has been stopped, which is completely contrary to European values and everything for which Europe and Of course, the Government of Spain works every day.” “In just a few days, in two fundamental countries, the United Kingdom and France, pluralism, tolerance and the rule of law triumph,” he highlighted.
For her part, the Government spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, declared to TVE that the results of the French elections show that “the sanitary cordons work. “The French have spoken loud and clear and have stopped and blocked the far right and I think they have also rewarded the unity of the progressive parties, which has been so important,” she added. “We were talking about a possible absolute majority in France for the extreme right and there was a boost to democratic and European values,” she concluded.
Likewise, the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, assured that her party, Sumar, has also prevented the arrival of the extreme right to the Spanish Government. “Welcome the French to be another exception like the Government of Spain. On July 23, remember that I already said that the Spanish were going to sleep a little better, we achieved it with the Iberian exception on June 23 and now France has achieved it,” she added.
Feijóo
For his part, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, declared today through the same social network that “France is one of the main democratic engines of the Union.” “Europe has always been built through moderation,” he continued. “The political center must unite to prevent extremists from directing its future,” he added. Later, at a press conference at the headquarters of the Catalan Parliament in Barcelona, Feijóo declared that “extremes do not solve problems and, therefore, I hope that Mr. Macron has the possibility of forming a government in which extremes are excluded both on one side as on the other.” “The extremes on one side of the other are not part of the priorities that Europe needs to solve its problems, which are many,” he insisted.
In this regard, Pilar Alegría reminded Feijóo, through social networks, that her party “governs with the extreme right in Aragon, Castilla y León, Murcia, Extremadura, the Valencian Community and in more than 140 municipalities” and, therefore, He asked him to “be consistent” with his own message “and break with them.” “Mr. Feijóo, how are you able to say one thing and do the opposite? Who are you trying to fool? “You have agreed and brought the extreme right into the Governments, and, furthermore, you are copying the discourse and policies of the extremists,” declared, for her part, the first vice president and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero.
At a press conference, the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, declared that “Le Pen and the National Reagrupation have managed to portray the Islamist and anti-Semitic ultra-left, the globalist center and the progressive right that have chosen Islamist and communist suicide for France.” For his part, the legal coordinator of Vox, Jorge Buxadé, criticized, in statements to Radio Libertad, that the “liberal” Macron “always, at the last minute, is going to agree with the extreme left” in order to avoid “a stable Government.” and work for Europe” in the hands of the National Group.
The French elections, in France and in Spain
The French left, grouped in the New Popular Front (NFP) of socialists, communists, environmentalists and La France Insoumise (LFI), has turned around in the second round of the French legislative elections, in which it has come in first position, with 195 deputies in the National Assembly.
With these results, the far-right National Group, led by Marine Le Pen and which started as a favorite after obtaining victory in the first round on June 30, is in third position, with 143 parliamentarians. The centrist party Together for the Republic, linked to President Emmanuel Macron, has reached 168 seats, well below the 250 of the previous elections, although well above what was expected. Participation was 67%, the highest in several decades, which reveals an important electoral mobilization to prevent the rise to power of the extreme right.
According to official data, French voters in the Fifth Electoral District – which includes residents in Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Monaco – awarded victory, in this second round, to the current deputy, the ‘Macronist’ Stéphane Vojetta, who obtained almost 61.5 percent of the votes (61.6 percent in Madrid, almost 54 percent in Barcelona and a little more than 50 percent in Bilbao) against Maxime Da Silva, from Francia Insumisa (integrated into the leftist New Popular Front coalition). The Lepenist candidate, Johana Maurel, had placed third in the first round, which prevented her from running in the second. Participation barely exceeded 39 percent.
Last Thursday, Pedro Sánchez congratulated the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the Labor Party Keir Starmer, who obtained 412 deputies, the largest victory for the Labor Party since 2001 (and more than double the seats it obtained in the last elections, in the which the conservative Boris Johnson won). For their part, the conservatives, who have gone from 250 to 121 deputies, have suffered the worst defeat since the founding of the party in 1834 and have put an end to fourteen years of government.
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