The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has insisted this Monday that the Popular Party will have to agree with them in the territories in which it does not have an absolute majority, just as it has done in the Valencian Community. “What do you want? Go to elections? Have it happen again?” He asked in an interview on Telecinco, regarding the reluctance of the popular to reach more agreements with Vox after the regional elections on May 28. .
Abascal recalled that there are several autonomies, such as Murcia or Extremadura, in which the PP does not reach an absolute majority on its own and therefore cannot act “as if Vox did not exist.” “If Mr. López Miras (the acting president of Murcia and PP candidate) refuses to consider the result of Vox and wants to act as if Vox does not exist, it seems that Mr. López Miras would be willing to go to elections, not Vox “. This same Monday, López Miras has refused to incorporate them into his next autonomous government, although he offered this political force “many agreements” to achieve stability in the region after the May 28 elections.
The far-right leader has stressed that this position seems “nonsense” to him and believes that PP and Vox have an “obligation” to understand each other and a “clear mandate” given by the citizens at the polls. But he has made it clear that his only red line is “respect” for his voters and for this reason they will not act as a “broom car” for the PP. “The PP is missing two for an absolute majority, we are missing 14. We don’t have any,” he summarized the results in Murcia. In this sense, he has assured that Vox is “a national party” that has the same criteria throughout Spain, but the problem is that the PP “has many interlocutors and many differences” depending on the territory and that makes negotiations difficult.
In any case, he explained that the agreements reached in the Valencian Community or in Castilla y León serve for citizens to know what they offer and what their bases are “for the construction of the alternative.” Vox thus has “its hand outstretched” and asks its voters for “respect”, depending on the result obtained in the elections. As he recalled, his percentage of the vote in the Valencian Community was 12%, while in Murcia it was 17.7%. “There are places where we have more strength and others less”, he has recognized.
Regarding the controversy over the inclusion in the agreement with the PP in Valencia of the term intra-family violence instead of gender violence, Abascal has argued that the latter is an “ideological concept” that they reject, although he has assured that his is the party that it has faced violence against women with “more forcefulness” since its origins, whose existence it admits.
Abascal has referred to the document that Vox has made public today on social networks and that compiles in twelve points the measures they propose to protect women. “With this we try to make what we have always said heard, from the beginning,” stressed the leader of Vox, who has attacked the PP for having “bought the slander” of the left about the positions of his party. He has stressed that this document “will serve as a guide for negotiations in governments” and has challenged the PP to say what it does not agree with them.
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has defended that he will not take steps back in the fight against sexist violence and has addressed both the left and Vox to stress that he will protect women and will not repeal the laws approved by his party in equality. Abascal has responded that Vox’s proposals do not imply a “reversal” and, as proof, he has said that they are the only party that calls for a tougher sentence, including permanent prison for murderers and rapists and the one that “has faced more forcefully against this government that has put the rapists on the street”.
He has denied that it is difficult for them to “verbalize” violence against women and has indicated that they do pronounce the words abuser, rapist or murderer, but has refused to speak of “gender” considering that “it is an ideological concept.” “We believe that sex is a biological matter, but the self-perceived gender, in which one feels one thing, feels another, is an ideological concept that we do not share,” he argued, after pointing out that “there are many times of violence”, all of them “deplorable”.
Abascal has also stressed that for “those small elections” between “scare and death” in the Barcelona City Council, between choosing that this city be governed by Xavier Trias (Junts) or Jaume Collboni (PSC), “there is already the Parrido Popular” for influence that his party, between “scare or death”, chooses “Spain” and the “position” of his party.In this sense, he assured that he “does not care” about Ada Colau, the PSC or Trias, choosing between “separatists, socialists, tougher or softer separatists”.
“They have all been part of a popular front with the current government of Pedro Sánchez, therefore, we are not going to choose between them, we are going to vote for our candidates,” said Abascal, while adding that “those who want to They already have the PP to choose between the greater and lesser evil, we are not here for that”.
At the same time, the leader of Vox has indicated that it seems “logical” to him that EH Bildu “grows” in the Basque Country because it is “the consequence of the legitimization” of this party “by the PSOE, Zapatero and Sánchez” , which “have incorporated” this party “to the leadership of the State, in the words of the former vice president Pablo Iglesias.”
