Belen Gil Orantos |
Madrid (EFE).- Governing to put an end to the “disastrous” policies of Pedro Sánchez (“repealing ‘sanchismo’” is the phrase used especially by PP leaders) has become a priority for Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal. A shared objective that, however, they face with more discrepancies than what the conservative block could venture a priori.
Both have repeated the expression “repeal the ‘sanchismo'” on innumerable occasions. It is a phrase that has already become a campaign slogan for both the PP and Vox, to whom the polls can make possible allies necessary to form a government after the general elections on July 23.
The two reject laws promoted in the last legislature by the PSOE and Podemos coalition such as those of only yes is yes, housing or democratic memory, but they differ on what to do about many of them.
A situation that could make it difficult for negotiations between Génova and Bambú (the street in Madrid where Vox’s headquarters are located) to design a shared program to guarantee governance, if Feijóo does not finally achieve an absolute majority of the 176 seats and requires Abascal’s support to replace Sánchez at Moncloa.
There would be no problem in abolishing the laws of democratic memory and the taxes on banks and electricity companies if they fulfill what was promised, but beyond that, the differences outweigh the similarities.
Law of ‘only yes is yes’
The support of the PP to the PSOE allowed the reform of the Organic Law of Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom, known as the only yes is yes, to avoid new reviews of sentences and reductions in sentences, a modification that those of Vox call a “mini-retouch” and “crude makeup” and insist on its repeal.
Euthanasia and abortion
The popular ones speak of modifications in the euthanasia law and endorse the model of terms established in the abortion law that they themselves appealed decades ago and the TC has declared constitutional.
Those of Abascal frame both euthanasia and abortion in the “culture of death” and call for their abolition, considering that they are not a right and defending life “from conception to natural death.”
Trans law and LGTBI rights
Both coincide in wanting to repeal the current trans law for allowing, among other issues, the change of registered sex without further demand and that they can make it minors. But Vox does not trust the PP, which has promised new legislation for this group and maintains the regional laws of Galicia and Madrid.
Sedition and embezzlement reforms
The PP wants to toughen the crime of embezzlement to a maximum of at least five years, reinclude sedition in the Penal Code and also classify the crime of illegal referendum. Vox demands the annulment in its entirety of the reform promoted by Sánchez, considering that it supposes an “amnesty” for the Catalan independence leaders.
State Model
Vox is committed to the end of the State of Autonomies, something that the PP does not even consider, and for a Spain without distinctions or internal borders.
Housing Law
The PP’s commitment is to modify the housing law, rejects the rent ceilings and ensures that it encourages squatting. For Vox, the measures included in the regulations agreed by Sánchez with ERC and Bildu, which he wants to repeal, are “very negative” as they are based on “restricting, limiting, prohibiting, forcing and expropriating”.
climate change law
Feijóo limits himself to talking about “adjustments” in the climate change law, while Abascal expresses a clear rejection of the 2030 Agenda and the so-called “globalist positions” and considers that the fight against climate change must go hand in hand with the protection of the economy and the real needs of Spain.
Labour reform
The PP does not speak of repeal, only of modification. He defends that the current law is the labor reform of Mariano Rajoy but with some negative changes. Vox promises its abolition, considering it “useless”.