{"id":1371450,"date":"2022-03-11T13:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T18:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1371450"},"modified":"2022-03-11T13:10:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T18:10:57","slug":"spanish-populists-to-enter-government-for-first-time-after-regional-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spanish-populists-to-enter-government-for-first-time-after-regional-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Populists to Enter Government for First Time After Regional Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspanish-populists-to-enter-government-for-first-time-after-regional-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1371450&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Spanish populist-conservative party VOX is set to enter government in\u00a0Castile and Le\u00f3n following a historic deal with the conservative People\u2019s Party (PP) that will see VOX enter its first government in the party\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso Fern\u00e1ndez Ma\u00f1ueco, head of the PP in\u00a0Castile and Le\u00f3n, announced on Thursday that his party had come to a deal with VOX to form the next regional government, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alferma1\/status\/1501871846102343685?s=20&#038;t=2Pgcg314RTSHy4t0FNfHcA\">saying<\/a> the parties had reached an agreement \u201cthat allows a stable and solid government with full respect for the constitutional order and the Statute of Autonomy of Castile and Le\u00f3n.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Juan Garc\u00eda-Gallardo, who headed the VOX campaign in the region, confirmed the deal stating, \u201cWe celebrate today a sensible agreement, without winners or losers. Together, with a desire for dialogue and agreement, let us make a useful legislature for the citizens. Serving Castile and Le\u00f3n must be our way of serving Spain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agreement comes weeks after the <a href=\"https:\/\/bocyl.jcyl.es\/boletines\/2022\/03\/09\/pdf\/BOCYL-D-09032022-13.pdf\">regional election<\/a> in\u00a0Castile and Le\u00f3n, which was held on February 13th and saw VOX surge from just a single regional seat with 5.5 per cent of the vote in the last election in 2019, to 17.6 per cent of the vote and 13 seats.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Establishment Conservatives Falter, Spain\u2019s Populist-Right Surges Past in Polls<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lBUd3WoT4o\">https:\/\/t.co\/lBUd3WoT4o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1497255072144625664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The breakthrough is just the latest for the Spanish populist party, which has gone from polling at less than one per cent in the 2016 national elections, to polling as the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/25\/establishment-conservatives-falter-spains-populist-right-surges-past-in-polls\/\"> second-largest party<\/a> in Spain in some recent polls this year.<\/p>\n<p>VOX has also made strategic alliances with other conservative and populist parties across Europe and the Americas, with leader Santiago Abascal recently hosting a conference in Madrid attended by Polish Prime Minister\u00a0Mateusz Morawiecki, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor\u00a0Orb\u00e1n, and French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen.<\/p>\n<p>In the Americas, Abascal has been a driving force behind the anti-communist <a href=\"https:\/\/gaceta.es\/actualidad\/la-carta-de-madrid-impulsada-por-la-fundacion-disenso-sigue-sumando-firmantes-ya-son-mas-de-70-20201117-2100\/\">Madrid Charter<\/a>, which has also been signed by Italian Brothers of Italy (FdI) firebrand leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/06\/08\/conservatives-propose-law-to-outright-ban-communism-islamism-in-italy\/\">Giorgia Meloni<\/a>, and Brazilian MP Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n<p>The signatories of the charter affirm that \u201cthe advance of communism poses a serious threat to the prosperity and development of our nations, as well as to the freedoms and rights of our compatriots,\u201d and commits to the rule of law, democracy and freedom.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Santiago Abascal, leader of Spanish populist party VOX, met with Brazil\u2019s President Jair Bolsonaro to discuss a common front against communism, saying patriots across the Atlantic should be united. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mKsF7bz5yo\">https:\/\/t.co\/mKsF7bz5yo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1470217098546884610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish populist-conservative party VOX is set to enter government in\u00a0Castile and Le\u00f3n following a historic deal with the conservative People\u2019s Party (PP) that will see VOX enter its first 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