One of the responses that I find funniest when watching a movie is the one that says these words: "this is not what it seems."
Today, the five members representing Congress in the Central Electoral Board (JEC) were elected. Vox has been part of this electoral body since 2019, when it became the third most voted party, with 52 seats. However, today Vox has been excluded from the JEC, while the communists of Sumar, who are the fourth force, will be present in that body. The socialist newspaper El País has stated that Vox's exclusion is due to an agreement between the PP and PSOE, with the consent of Sumar. The paradox is that the PSOE and Sumar, despite having fewer seats than those combined between the PP and Vox, will have a majority in the JEC.
If I'm not mistaken, in all the years of democracy in Spain this is the first time that the third most voted party has been excluded from the JEC but the fourth has not. It is a mockery of the principle of representativeness, but it is no surprise, considering that in 2023 the same thing already happened in the Congress Table, with the complicity of the PP. Sumar, with 31 seats, currently has two seats on that Table and Vox, with 33 seats, has no seats. This is how those who divide up the institutions, systematically excluding Vox from them, understand democracy.
This afternoon, the PP has denied that there is any pact to exclude Vox from the JEC. Vox does not think the same and blames the PP for its exclusion from that Board. Beyond the statements of each party, it is worth remembering one fact: in the last four years, the PP has agreed with the PSOE on the Court of Auditors, the office of the Ombudsman, the Constitutional Court (handing over their control of the socialists) and the General Council of the Judiciary, in addition to the aforementioned Congress Board. All these agreements were made excluding Vox.
In addition, the European People's Party has repeated its "grand coalition" with the socialists in Brussels, a coalition that has existed for decades (although many voters of both parties seem to be unaware of this). In addition to this, this coalition has violated the regulations of the European Parliament to exclude the Vox group (which is the third in number of seats) from all the bodies of that legislative chamber.
Given these precedents, how can we be so suspicious as to believe in a new PP-PSOE pact to exclude Vox? How can we be so suspicious as to believe that the PP is part of the anti-democratic cordon of the left against Vox? Now they will tell us, once again, that "this is not what it seems."
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Photo: Partido Popular. Reunión del presidente del Partido Popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, con el secretario general del Partido Socialista, Pedro Sánchez, el 21 de diciembre de 2023.
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