Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP) and the far-right Vox party have inked yet another coalition deal, this time to keep ruling the southern region of Andalucía. The PP lost its absolute majority in May’s regional election, forcing it to cozy up to Vox - a party that has been dragging the PP further right by demanding Spaniards get priority over immigrants for housing and public services.

Incumbent PP regional president Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla had previously dismissed Vox’s “national priority” policy as “a sensationalistic but empty slogan” during the campaign. But on Thursday, he signed an agreement that explicitly guarantees “national priority in accessing public benefits.” The pact also rejects the immigration policies of Spain’s socialist-led central government and says Andalucía won’t accept any more unaccompanied migrant children.

Other priorities include opposing “the imposition of ideological agendas when it comes to caring for the environment,” defending intensive livestock farming “in the face of criminalisation from the animal rights lobby and the climate policies developed in Brussels,” and protecting bullfighting - because nothing says “sensible governance” like insisting on the preservation of a pastime that involves stabbing animals for sport.

As in other PP-Vox coalitions in Extremadura, Aragón, and Castilla y León, the new Andalucían government wants to overturn legislation that brought “justice, reparation and dignity” to victims of the civil war and Franco dictatorship. It plans to replace it with a “harmony law,” which the national government, historical memory associations, and UN experts have all denounced as a blatant attempt to whitewash the horrors of the Franco era.

Moreno hailed the pact as “sensible, fair and legal,” while national PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo praised Moreno’s “commitment, capacity for dialogue, and vocation of service.” Vox’s Andalucían leader Manuel Gavira, who will serve as regional vice-president, said the deal would ensure a government “that defends common sense and improves the lives of the people of Andalucía.”

May’s regional election was a disaster for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE), which dropped from 30 seats to 28 in the 109-seat parliament - its worst ever result in Andalucía. The PP fell from 58 to 53 seats, while Vox picked up one more to reach 15. The leftwing Adelante Andalucía climbed from two to eight seats, and Por Andalucía held its five seats.

The PP-Vox coalition comes as Sánchez’s party is battered by corruption cases and as Spain gears up for next year’s general election. Polls suggest the PP will finish first but may need Vox to govern nationally. Feijóo has repeatedly refused to rule out a coalition with Vox, saying he hopes to govern alone but has no intention of “demonising” the far-right party. His predecessor, Pablo Casado, was weakened by his inability to decide how to handle Vox, eventually turning on them in a fiery speech six years ago. But that was then - now, the PP seems perfectly happy to embrace the party it once called “populists with demagoguery.”