Right-wing voter proposals go beyond tax cuts

From SMI to conscription: the right-wing menu hidden during campaigns

What would you do if you were in power? This question, posed regarding a hypothetical right-wing electoral victory, reveals a catalog ranging from reasonable administrative cuts to radical social experiments. The interest lies in this mix: orthodox liberal proposals coexist with others that would dismantle half the welfare state. This is not a minor detail ahead of upcoming elections.

The starting point is an intervention mixing institutional and cultural aspects: retaining power, distancing from the Church, reconciling with aggrieved territories, and turning Spain into an hub for intercultural understanding. Until here, it is state rhetoric. It gets twisted when the same proposal suggests aggressively meddling in television and media to boost national spirit, concluding with an AI plan to manufacture patriotic sociological discourse. The line between institutional communication and propaganda blurs on its own.

Housing and squatting: the common battleground

The clearest consensus appears in housing. There are calls to repeal rules protecting squatters and the latest rental law, arguing the market would work better without intervention or need for new construction. It is the usual thesis: less regulation, more supply. The nuance that supply does not appear by decree is missing, but as a starting position, it is coherent and frequently repeated.

Cutting back the public perimeter

Here the menu expands and becomes explicit. Zero subsidies for unions and third-sector entities not funded by members; public broadcasters should stop competing with private ones and limit themselves to languages, culture, and information; and these savings redirected to patriotic historical cinema, antiestéticaturing Pelayo, James I, Lepanto, and castros. The proposal has its charm—cultural interventionism fought with more cultural interventionism—and underlying logic: he who pays, commands.

Tightening labor and healthcare

The hardest part arrives with administration and social spending. Proposals include not replacing retiring civil servants, raising effective working hours to 45 per week, and cutting public salaries by 10%. Privatize healthcare and education. Restore two years of mandatory military service. Privatize pensions, lowering the lowest by 10% and the highest by 5%. Eliminate the SMI so workers and companies "sort it out." Together, this is a complete model change, not just an adjustment.

Some go further, proposing zero severance pay, repealing all collective agreements, and massive importation of foreign labor to lower costs. The contradiction with the national priority discourse is evident, and no one resolves it.

The wing unwilling to wait for ballots

Not everyone assumes victory is certain. Warnings exist about a mass of voters sustaining the current ruling party despite attributed scandals, recalling the opposition leader's desire to govern alone, seeking an absolute majority. With a railway accident involved—mentioned as an electoral weapon until the last day—the scenario of 180 seats seems antiestéticasible to some and fantasy to others.

The menu closes with the nostalgic faction: death penalty, mandatory Mass, penalizing adultery, and banning relationships outside marriage. That is what happens when asking aloud: the answer always exceeds the questioner.