Just ten days ago, Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP) had announced the opposite: the PP leadership promised after their victory in the local and regional elections at the end of May that they would do everything possible to govern alone. But in Valencia, the PP soon wanted nothing more to do with it. The conservatives will rule the previous left stronghold together with the right-wing populists.
Hans Christian Roessler
Political correspondent for the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb based in Madrid.
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PP and Vox signed their first post-election deal to replace the left-wing regional government – it could become a model for Spain’s new central government if the right also wins the July 23 snap general election. The Spanish PP has never erected political firewalls to distinguish itself from the right-wing populists.