The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, took advantage of his intervention yesterday in the first control session of the Andalusian Government in Parliament after the general elections of 23-J to scold Vox and blame him for not having added a majority with the PP . Moreno has reproached Abascal’s party for having made “big mistakes” and has urged them to make “self-criticism”.
In a harsh intervention by the popular president against Vox’s parliamentary spokesman, he has addressed the far-right formation as “Pedro Sánchez’s greatest ally”. He has accused them of “mobilizing a large part of the socialist electorate” due to the “hyperbolic discourse and exaggerations” that Vox has maintained during the electoral campaign, according to Moreno’s words.
One of the reproaches of the popular president to Vox has been to blame the formation of Abascal as the culprit of the excellent electoral result of the PSC in Catalonia. “When you go to Catalonia and it is said that the World Cup is going to get messed up and that a permanent 155 is going to be applied, what reaction do you think the citizens are going to have?” Juanma Moreno pointed out.
Not alone, he has referred to Catalonia as the axis of Vox’s “inflammatory statements”. The leader of the Andalusian PP has also made ugly the behavior of the two Vox councilors who remained seated in the minute of silence for Miguel Ángel Blanco that took place during a plenary session in Badajoz. The far-right formation justified it by saying that “they did not want to share events with the PSOE” because of their decision to “agree with Bildu.”
Moreno has also reproached Vox for having “questioned the policies in favor of sexist violence.” And he has asked them a question: Do you think that this can favor them or is it that they do not know that 52% of the Spanish population are women? Also in terms of LGBT rights, the popular leader has accused Vox of “questioning the rights of homosexual people and those who suffer from homophobia” which, according to Moreno, “has violated conservative fathers and mothers with homosexual children.”
In the midst of an intense debate in the ranks of the Popular Party about how the party’s strategy should be in its relationship with Vox, Juanma Moreno has starred in one of the most tense moments and with the most reproaches between both formations. After failing to achieve an absolute majority between the two parties, these days both formations accuse each other of not having been able to meet the objective.
The other day, the former president of the Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, stated that Feijóo was wrong in his campaign “saying that he preferred the PSOE over Vox.” In her opinion, the popular president should have said that Vox is a “perfectly constitutional” party with different opinions from those of the PP, but with which the pact “is much better for Spain” than that of the PSOE with Bildu. Along these lines, she criticized Feijóo for saying that he “liked Page more than Abascal”.
The Faes Foundation, chaired by the former president of the Government and the Popular Party, José María Aznar, published an editorial where he blamed Vox for the electoral result. “None of the errors or insufficiencies that want to be noticed in the PP campaign can equal in its effects the role played by Vox,” reads its editorial.
“The aggressive and absolutely uncritical reaction” of the Vox leadership can only be explained by “the erratic drift of this party, in its strategic confusion and in the growing frustration of a project -we must not forget it- that arose with the aim of replacing to the PP”.
Aznar’s opinion seems to be part of a harsh current against Vox in line with the intervention of Juanma Moreno yesterday in the Andalusian Parliament.
