Since the Popular Party and Vox closed their agreement to govern Extremadura in coalition, the syntagma “national priority” (which was later also included in the pact in Aragon) has not ceased to be in vogue. And that was not new: it was the main discursive counterpart that the PP granted to Vox in the Valencian Community when the replacement of Carlos Mazón.
This time, written on paper and as an inspiring principle of all social aid from now on, a good political stir has been created. Due to the unanimous rejection of the Government and the entire left, including threats of Pedro Sanchezand due to the popular leadership’s own misgivings, with sectors clearly against assuming a chauvinist concept that, furthermore, is impossible to put into practice.
As long as the “national priority” is interpreted as meaning that Spaniards of origin will be the only ones who can access State benefits. But the reality, of course, is the literality of what was signed. And, according to the PP, the programmatic documents leave no room for ambiguity: “National priority” is nothing other than “rootedness.” That is to say, those who prove that they have contributed to a territory, or prove that they have roots, benefit from aid.
Even so, the PP, in the midst of a political storm, has wanted to test the general sentiment of the national electorate with the concept of “national priority.” Just in case. Through a survey, he asked voters their opinion on the key syntagm that permeates the first agreements with Vox in the new political cycle. And the conclusions, sources from Genoa assure LA RAZÓN, are obvious.
The socialist electorate
To begin with, the music sounds good to the voters of PP and Vox and, most strikingly, also to a significant number of PSOE faithful. Specifically, to the question: “Do you agree with the concept of national priority that Vox has proposed to the PP?”four out of ten socialist voters answer “yes.” A considerable percentage if one takes into account the position of all the left-wing leaders, who have called the right-wing capitulations racist or xenophobic.
Along these lines, the demographic study commissioned by the PP offers another interesting piece of information. The same percentage of socialist voters, four out of ten, support the hypothesis that in Spain “there is a problem” when it comes to “accessing public services” due to the “saturation” generated by immigrants. And two out of ten assure that the irregulars, directly, “they should not have any right to benefits of any kind.”
Some data with which the PP reaffirms its concession to Vox, which is in line with the party’s hardening on immigration. In recent days, there has been internal noise because the phrase does not convince all the leaders of the formation and because the left cheers it on to mobilize its electorate.
Hence, the PP gives capital importance to the qualitative results of the poll that has just come out of the oven. Given what has been seen, the national leadership of the party is pleased that the position coincides with the majority sentiment of its electorate and, most importantly, with a no small percentage of socialist voters.
From the beginning, Genoa has not hidden that the “national priority policy” It is a toll on Vox that, in turn, agrees with the general lines that Feijóo established in his framework document, when he decided to take the reins of the autonomous negotiations.
Now, in the prelude to the Andalusians there was a fear: that the terms of the pacts signed in Extremadura and Aragón would directly impact the campaign and mark a turning point. The match tracking, for now, does not reflect any movement. And not only: in the PP, after reading the conclusions of their survey, they are convinced that it is possible to attract socialist voters also for “national priority.”