The Popular Party takes another step in its approach to the far-right. The spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress, Ester Muñoz, has openly defended an understanding with Vox and has assured that both parties must move towards an agreement.
Muñoz has lashed out at the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, whom he accuses of "accelerating the most radical pacts with his most radical partners," and has stated that "PP and Vox have to reach an understanding. Spaniards deserve another Government and that must be accelerated."
In statements sent to the media this Sunday, the popular leader insisted: "PP and Vox have to understand each other, they have to reach an agreement because the priority is not our parties, it is the Spanish people". Although she acknowledged that "there are many issues" on which both parties do not agree because they are "different parties", she stressed that there are other areas in which they do share positions. "Besides, we must do it", she clarified.
El @ppopular seguirá dando pasos para prohibir el burka en espacios públicos, tal y como anunció en su Congreso de julio y ha llevado a parlamentos autonómicos como el balear. pic.twitter.com/vImj739YVf
— ESTER MUÑOZ (@EsterMunoz85) February 15, 2026
The coincidences between PP and Vox
Among the points of agreement, Muñoz recalled that in July the PP announced its intention to prohibit the full burqa throughout Spain "in the public sphere". He also pointed out that fifteen days ago the PP of the Balearic Islands approved, on its own initiative, a bill to urge the central government to veto the use of the burqa in public spaces.
"Today, in an interview, our president Feijóo insists on this issue. On Tuesday, Vox has presented and has proposed that a bill to prohibit the burqa in public spaces be taken into consideration," he explained. In that vein, he guaranteed that "the PP will approve and support that this be debated in Parliament."
The popular spokesperson has also lashed out at Sánchez's Executive. She has denounced that "this week in the Basque Country with a councilor from the Socialist Party, bloodthirsty ETA members are being released early" and has criticized that the "acceleration of the massive regulation of immigrants" responds, in her opinion, to a measure "to please Podemos". Likewise, she has held the Government responsible for the "collapse" of public services and has maintained that it "is incapable of bringing budgets to the Chamber."
"This leads us to think that a 180-degree turn is needed", stated Muñoz, who insisted that "PP and Vox must focus on the issues that unite us and that in the narrative, the important thing is that Spaniards have a Government that changes everything that Pedro Sánchez has destroyed".
