Some commentators were already delighted with the imagination of the Spanish Chadeks of Partido Popular, who were to start ruling in Madrid with the right-wing VOX, erstwhile it turned out that the "central right" did not gain a parliamentary majority in the elections. These delights were peculiarly strong among supporters of PiS and Giorgia Meloni.
Although I am very far from admiring the regulation of Mateusz Morawiecki and Giorgia Meloni, and I surely do not treat them as "breakthrough", in comparison with Partido Popular, Catholic and right-wing governments are indeed. The Spanish chadeks can be delighted only by those who have no thought about them and are satisfied with the labels specified as ‘chade’ or ‘central-right’. Partido Popular is not the equivalent of PiS in Poland and Fratelli d’Italia in Italy, but alternatively the Civic Platform, despite the fact that the organization was founded by activists of the Post-Frankist right. However, they founded it not for the sake of continuing Frankism, but for a spectacular cut-off from this tradition and trim to a camp fighting for democracy and human rights. Already in 2004, then president José María Aznar, whose father was inactive Minister for General Franco, wrote about the discussion around the preamble of the Constitution for Europe, which was discussed throughout Europe: "As for values, I was a firm supporter of writing a mention to Christianity into the Constitution for Europe. This mention to Christianity would not mean that Europe would become a club of Christian nations. That would be absurd. After all, I am besides in favour of Turkey being admitted to the European Union (...). Since it is not about the European Union becoming a Christian country club, it is only about us not denying our historical roots. I do not object and I do not pretend to push the confessionalisation of the European Union. Neither I nor anyone else is questioning the principles of secularism of the Constitution for Europe. The spiritual issue is, in my opinion, a private substance of all individual and everyone has the right to believe whatever they want.” — J. M. Aznar, Ocho años de gobierno. Una visión individual de España, Barcelona 2004, pp. 189-190). erstwhile Aznar writes in his programming book on Christianity, and does so very rarely, it always does so only in a historical, conventional sense. Nothing in practice results from this for political reality, institutions and law. Partido Popular did not even choose to protest against the exhumation of the corpses of Gen. Franco and Jose Antonia Primo de Rivera – the “holy” Spanish right hand – from the Valley of the Deceased. The organization supports the European Union's national vision, the climate policy Fit for 55, the abolition of national veta law, etc.
In a word, Partido Popular is not curious in conventional themes and right-wing or centre-right problems at all. So what's her interest? After reviewing the programming documents, the website of the website and the Spanish press, we will conclude that the most serious problem of this group is intolerance to LGBT. Just so we realize each another well: I do not want to say that Partido Popular is intolerant to LGBT minorities. On the contrary, it is homosexual activists of Partido Popular who face the problem of intolerance in their homosexual environment due to their activity in the same party!
In fresh local elections, Partido Popular made a final effort to break off with the remnants of the image of the Christian and conservative party, as well as “homophobic”. The organization faced this problem because, as quoted earlier, Aznar opposed the designation of the legality of single-sex marriages. In order to break up with this image, his successors began a run to advance "sexual diversity", and to be credible in this, they put a full group of homosexual activists on their electoral lists to local and regional bodies. Here we go! No, it's not about protests of Catholics voting on Partido Popular and old people remembering the times of the large General. It turned out that the Chadetic homosexuals, the candidate of Partido Popular's letter, met with a wave of intolerance, right after the LGBT environment! Chardeccy-gay activists in the media and on websites related to the website complain that they are highly frequently confronted with ostracism in LGBT environments. They are commonly accused of membership and candidateing from the list of “fascist” organization or “post-fascist” organization (see, for example, T. Morillo, Hablan los gais y lesbianas “discriminados” por ser de PP, Vox y Cs: “Nos insultan por pensar distinto”, on the elespanol.com website. In response, facing homosexual activists, 1 of the leaders of the Chadecka organization in 2021 even announced that the next Prime Minister from Partido Popular would be gay (Estanislao Rodríguez: “El primer presidente gay de España será del PP”, in elmundo.es). possibly the current failure of this organization is due to the fact that her current president Alberto Núñez Feijóo is heterosexual and, as a Christian Democrat, lives in a concubine with a woman, or at least with a individual "declaring as a woman", judging by his name (Eva Cárdenas).
The last election in Spain did not so prove to be a wasted right-wing opportunity, as the only right-wing organization in them was VOX. It is besides worth noting that VOX lost about 1⁄4 of support in relation to erstwhile elections to the Kortez. In my opinion, this is the consequence of establishing regional local coalitions with Partido Popular. In the coalitions of these VOXs, as a smaller partner, he was incapable to make any crucial promises made to his constituents, which caused regret and disappointment among them. And let us consider this as a tiny memento for the Confederate in Poland, which – as a weaker partner – will not be able to change anything in an alliance with PiS, but inducing disappointment of its electorate.
Adam Wielomski
