Editorial: El País

• Three distinct right-wing political forces (PP, Vox, and Junts) joined forces to bring down a decree containing various social aids.
• The blocked measures included updating pensions, subsidies for public transport, and transfers for victims of the La Palma volcano eruption.
• The blockage affects in particular the 12 million pensioners in Spain and those benefiting from the minimum income mandate.
• The decree also included non-social measures, all falling within the broad economic consensus.
• The return of a PNV-owned building in Paris, illicitly expropriated during the Nazi occupation, was also incorporated into the decree.
• The opposition has yet to explain why they oppose the return of this heritage.
• It is anticipated that the individual measures within the decree might be fragmented and approved with shifting majorities.

Conclusion: Party interests prevail over citizen needs in Spanish politics. The voting reveals a continuing weakness in the government and a deviation from focusing on the acute challenges faced by the country.

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