The leader of the far-right has stood on a platform that he has described as “full of cynicism and demagoguery” and has given a strident speech in which he compared Pedro Sánchez to Adolf Hitler, whom Santiago Abascal has referred to as “the German socialist.
This and other outbursts by the president of Vox have not gone unnoticed by the president of the Congress of Deputies, Francina Armengol, who has asked Abascal to comply with the regulations of the Chamber and express himself with due decorum.
“We are not facing a coup d’état and unfortunately here we have the signs of the last coup attempt,” Armengol replied, pointing out the holes produced by the shots fired by Lieutenant Colonel Tejero in 1981. “Therefore, those words are removed from the session log. “, he stated after an intervention by the socialist spokesperson, Patxi López, to denounce the “incitement to hatred” of the ultra proclamations.
For Vox, the amnesty law is a “democratic aberration” that, apart from allowing the investiture of the PSOE candidate to be raided, means repealing the Constitution through “nefarious pacts” with a “fugitive from justice”, in reference to the leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, who “trample” the Magna Carta.
“This investiture destroys the authority of the Chamber and is the first step of a coup d’état,” Abascal reiterated, relying on “freedom of expression” by which he also felt authorized to predict “the beginning of the end of democracy and the end of the rule of law” in Spain.
“Sánchez is capable of anything to cling to a chair of which he is unworthy,” proclaimed the leader of Vox, who would see it better if the President of the Government sat in the “dock” for his “unworthiness” to having obtained power “thanks to the enemies of his country.”
“I accuse Sánchez of liquidating the rule of law, the separation of powers, equality before the law and coexistence,” continued Abascal, for whom the general secretary of the PSOE has acted “in collusion with the separatists” to give way , through their “infamous pact”, to “a tyranny.”
In this sense, the leader of the extreme right has equated the “coup disguised in legality” that he attributes to Sánchez with the trajectories of the Venezuelans Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro and even the genocidal Adolf Hitler, whom he has referred to as “German socialist” and not a national socialist or simply a Nazi and who has recalled that he came to power through elections before committing “criminal” acts. At that moment, Armengol called him to order for the first time.
After denying, despite the evidence, that there was violence in the concentrations promoted by Vox in recent days in Madrid, the far-right leader has announced that the 33 deputies of his group would leave the chamber to join the protesters in the vicinity of the Congress, but not before addressing the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, so that the popular party refuses in the Senate, where they have an absolute majority, to process the amnesty law.
When Abascal finished his speech, the PSOE spokesperson asked to speak, who, from his seat, accused the far-right leader of wanting to emulate the dictators he referred to in his speech and of longing for Spain’s dictatorial past. Thus, the presidential candidate has given up his turn to respond and has subscribed to the words of Patxi López, so the debate has continued with the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz.
