Juanma Moreno misses a pact between the PP and the PSOE amidst a wave of socialist corruption

Frankly, it is sometimes very difficult to understand the positions of many leaders of the Popular Party (PP) in Spain.

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On May 17, the elections to the Parliament of Andalusia resulted in a victory for the Popular Party (PP) without an absolute majority, as well as a rise for Vox and a collapse for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), mired in a serious wave of corruption scandals. Many media outlets assumed that the pacts between the PP and Vox seen in other regions of Spain could be repeated in Andalusia, but eight days later, the president of the Andalusian PP has not even called Vox.

Today, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, the president of the PP in Andalusia, confirmed that he is in no hurry to talk to Vox and expressed his desire for a pact with the PSOE, citing European institutions as a model. Moreno has championed an agreement "between disparate political forces," but not referring to Vox, rather to the socialists, pointing to the case of the European Committee of the Regions, chaired by the Hungarian Socialist Kata Tutto, of which Moreno is vice-president: "Kata Tutto is from the Party of European Socialists and I am from the European People's Party, and we understand each other, and that is the best way to build together. It saddens me that such an example cannot exist in Spain."

It is at least amusing that Moreno describes the PP and the PSOE as "disparate political forces", considering that both parties are very similar ideologically speaking: they share positions on issues such as abortion, gender ideology, state interventionism, climate catastrophism and even mass immigration, as the PP has demonstrated today by rejecting a Vox initiative in Elche against the mass regularization of immigrants carried out by the government of Pedro Sánchez and which contemplates giving papers to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. In that vote, the PP joined its votes with those of the PSOE and the nationalists of Compromís.

It should also be noted that the "grand coalition" of the European People's Party (EPP) and the Socialists in Brussels is the reason why the European Commission systematically remains silent in the face of the abuses of Pedro Sánchez's government, since the Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen (of the EPP), needs the support of the Socialists to remain in office and does nothing that might upset them. Is this what the PP wants for Spain, a mutual cover-up with the PSOE?

Making these statements amidst a wave of socialist corruption scandals could result in Juanma Moreno sinking the PP's chances in the upcoming general elections. If, with everything that's happening, the Popular Party still wants to form a coalition with the socialists, what kind of change can the PP offer its voters? Let's remember, in fact, that the PP left the ideological laws of Zapatero's socialist government untouched during Mariano Rajoy's term, even though it had an absolute majority to repeal them. That was one of the reasons for the emergence of Vox, but it seems the PP remains incapable of doing anything different, perhaps because its ideological similarity to the PSOE pushes it precisely toward the agreements Moreno longs for.

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