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Spain·Elections·Diplomacy

Vox joins Extremadura regional government with vice presidency and key ministries after months of negotiations[Updated]

Thursday, 16 April 2026, 21:07 · 1 min read
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The PP-Vox coalition deal in Extremadura has quickly become a cautionary tale for the party nationally, with PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Andalusia's regional president Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla using it as a rallying cry at a pre-campaign rally in Córdoba ahead of Andalusia's May 17 regional elections. Feijóo and Moreno Bonilla urged supporters to fight to prevent a repeat of "what happened in Extremadura," with the coalition agreement now referred to internally within the PP as "el lío" — the mess. The turnaround is particularly striking given that Guardiola had publicly declared before the elections that she could not allow into her government those who "deny gender violence, dehumanise immigrants and throw the LGBTQ+ flag in the bin."

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Spain's far-right Vox party has reached a coalition agreement with the centre-right People's Party (PP) to govern Extremadura (a sparsely populated region in western Spain bordering Portugal), nearly four months after regional elections held last December. Under the deal, Vox's regional candidate Óscar Fernández Calle will assume a vice presidency alongside the ministries of Family and Agriculture, while PP leader María Guardiola is set to be formally invested as regional president next week. The 23-page programmatic pact, covering 74 measures, grants sweeping concessions to Vox on immigration policy — including restricting undocumented migrants' access to social services and housing, working to repatriate unaccompanied minors, and banning the burka and niqab in public spaces — while also including progressive income tax cuts and a commitment by Vox to support four annual regional budgets throughout the legislature.

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El PaísLas claves del acuerdo de PP y Vox en Extremadura: del retorno de los menores inmigrantes a la restricción de las prestaciones sociales para los irregulares ↗︎El PaísVox entra en el Gobierno de Extremadura con una vicepresidencia y las carteras de Familia y de Agricultura ↗︎
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