Santiago Abascal is not willing to waste any opportunity to try to show that the Popular Party and Vox can be as good a marriage as the PSOE and Sumar are, at the moment. The ultra leader is convinced that only a national right-wing alliance can build an alternative to stop “the autocrat” Pedro Sánchez. For this reason, the president of Vox has taken advantage of the investiture session of the PP leader to ask him to collaborate “without complexes or squeamishness” against those who, in his opinion, “want to destroy Spain.”
After an electoral campaign in which Alberto Núñez Feijóo did not pronounce Abascal’s last name and a rocky start to the legislature because the Popular Party did not give up their votes to the extreme right to obtain a position on the Board, this Tuesday the Popular Party and Vox have exhibited their good harmony, although without failing to highlight their differences. The leader of Vox has risen to the speakers’ platform to reaffirm the favorable vote of his 33 deputies for Feijóo’s investiture. And although he has said he is aware that the numbers do not work out, this support believes that it will serve to give “hope” to citizens who want an alternative government.
For Santiago Abascal, the investiture debate should mark the definitive turning point for the Popular Party and Vox to collaborate without “complexes.” To this end, the ultra leader has asked the popular candidate to disavow the leaders of his ranks who demonize the extreme right. Abascal has recovered some statements from the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, in which she claimed that Vox gave citizens “more fear” than EH Bildu. “Take a definitive and unequivocal distance from all those who still today, from their ranks, continue to despise three million Spaniards.” It is in his power, he has told her, to open the door to his office again “to those who are going to whisper to him that he must put an end to Vox.”
Abascal has taken advantage of his turn to highlight the autonomous pacts between his formations such as in the Valencian Community, Extremadura, Murcia or the Balearic Islands. “It is not logical, understandable or acceptable,” he insisted, that the same PP that makes an agreement with Vox also attacks these regional agreements. “Don’t forget: neither Vox is the enemy, nor is Vox going to disappear,” he warned him.
A glove that has been picked up by the PP candidate, who has thanked the extreme right for the support of his investiture, although without missing the opportunity to highlight that the division of the right only benefits Pedro Sánchez. “I don’t know if Vox is going to disappear or not; What I can assure you is that between PP and Vox we have obtained 600,000 more votes than PSOE and Sumar. If the center-right had not split, today we would have 190 seats,” said Feijóo.
Feijóo, who has taken advantage of the response to Vox to continue charging with the intervention of the socialist Óscar Puente, has thanked Vox for the favorable votes “without compensation”, in reference to the resignation that Abascal’s people made after the elections to ask to enter a hypothetical government, despite the fact that both already knew that the vetoes crossed between the ultras and the nationalists made the formation of a government impossible.
