“The PP and the PSOE are the same” and “the PP and Vox are the same” are two ideas that are being heard these days in Spanish politics. Although they represent exactly the opposite, both have the same injured: the party of Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Both the PSOE and Vox have found in the migratory conflict, aggravated and put on the table this week after the motion of the City of Jumilla, an element to be able to make a clamp against the popular, which ultimately is the common enemy of both formations. With that objective, the two matches have intensified their efforts this week to associate the PP with “the ultra -right” or with “those who promote the invasion.”
PSOE spokeswoman, Montse Mínguezyesterday accused the PP of being “institutionalizing racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia” after the motion “with racist tufo” of Jumilla, in Murcia, where the popular govern. He affected Feijóo that he was doing it to “seduce Vox’s voter to be able to get to power.” With his statement, the PSOE recovered again (if he ever left him aside) the speech that Feijóo has given him “a flying towards the extreme right” to the PP.
Mínguez’s statements have finished nationalizing a conflict that began as something local. Last Monday, the Jumilla City Council approved a motion driven by Vox and supported by the PP after amending it that will prevent the celebration of Muslim parties in public spaces of the town, as it had been done until then.
In the original text, the Vox Councilor Juan Agustín Carrillo He showed his rejection of “cultural practices outside Spain” and asked that the authorities prevent “foreign” cultural practices that are not part of the Spanish tradition and that affect social cohesion. ” In practice, the motion seeks to prohibit the local Muslim community from using the sports center for acts such as the celebration of the end of Ramadan.
The PP in the town feared that this motion could be contrary to the legal system (in Spain there is religious freedom shielded by the Constitution) and clarified it, via amendment, to prohibit the use of sports facilities for purposes outside sports. In the end, he went ahead with the vote in favor of the PP and Vox, in a clear gesture of the mayor Severa González (PP), which is about to approve local budgets.
After the controversy, the PP has tried to reduce the situation, but without success. The party has not censored its mayor and has shielded that it is not a religious issue, but of uses of municipal spaces. However, this position has had little draft, mainly because Neither vox nor psoe are willing to let it pass.
Vox, despite the fact that the approved motion was not theirs, Santiago Abascal has been scored and Friday launched a long statement to celebrate it and to attack PP and PSOE. “We must protect the public spaces of practices outside our culture and our way of life,” said the leader of Vox, saying that we are not facing a debate about religious freedom “As the complicit invasion or cowards claim”. In case there is any doubt, when Abascal speaks of accomplices of the invasion, it refers to the PSOE and when it speaks of cowards it refers to the PP.
The Abascal Party has found in the migratory tension that is lived in some territories of Spain, such as in Murcia, a reef to try to steal that voter discontent with Feijóo’s immigration policy. And under a very similar dynamic, the PSOE has found another reef there, to shake the fear of ultra -right that so well worked on 23J.
The Minister of Inclusion, Elma Saizexemplified it perfectly when he valued Jumilla’s motion. Saiz showed his maximum condemnation of Jumilla’s motion, described it as “absolutely racist” and accused the PP and vox of using these locations as “laboratories” of what a government of Spain would mean with a feijóo of president and abascal of vice president.
The Government delegate in Murcia, Mariola Guevarahe also accused both games of using Jumilla as a “laboratory” of the extreme right. That both agree to use the term laboratory can only mean two things: a curious coincidence or a premeditated strategy.