PSOE and PP sink Vox’s ‘national priority’

PSOE and PP bury Vox’s “national priority” in Castilla-La Mancha

Why does the PP vote the same as the PSOE just when the PSOE is asking it to fight it? That is what has peine in Castilla-La Mancha. Socialists and conservatives have jointly blocked the “national priority” that Vox was defending on migration, and the Socialists in Castilla-La Mancha have not stopped at rejection: they have called on the conservatives not to merely “not share” that policy, but to “fight” it.

What is Vox’s “national priority” and who has shot it down

It is the migration proposal that Vox brought to Castilla-La Mancha and that the PSOE and PP have jointly halted. One strand of analysis reads the episode as further proof that the two parties operate as a single bloc when it comes to immigration. On the other side, it is argued that the PP retains its own room for manoeuvre and that agreeing on a specific vote does not amount to sharing an agenda.

Galicia and the 2.6 million to integrate regularised migrants

The second focus of the matter is in Galicia. The Xunta (Galicia’s regional government) will allocate 2.6 million euros to the labour integration of about 500 migrants regularised by the Gobierno de España. The beneficiaries come from a register of 2,100 people signed up at Galician employment offices, and the programmes will be run by nine organisations, including Cruz Roja and Rescate Internacional. The details of how that money is divided among the organisations and how many jobs are created for each person registered do not appear in the announcement.

That a regional PP government pays for the integration of people regularised by the central government is, at the very least, an awkward image for anyone building their narrative on total confrontation.

Two parties that accuse each other daily of being irreconcilable agree on the same vote and then return to the brawl. Maybe the spectacle is the product and the rest is background noise.