At the Vox national headquarters they are still waiting for the phone to ring from Genoa, 13. A week has passed since the leader of the extreme right, Santiago Abascal, offered his support to the Popular Party to build an alternative to regional and local governments of lefts that can fall according to the results that the polls produced on May 28. But the popular ones, for the moment, refuse to take that “outstretched hand without red lines” that Vox offers, from where they assure that they have “patience”.
It is not usual, but this Monday the weekly Vox press conference was offered by the president of the party. Accompanied by the heavyweights of the training in the room, Abascal has warned before question time, that he will not “fall into speculation”: “Not a single word will come out of my mouth that could put contributing at risk to form that alternative and less at the gates of a general electionâ€.
In other words: agreements, whether at the local or regional level, are not discussed in public. And it is not being done because, simply, no type of conversation has started between PP and Vox in view of the investiture sessions that should be held in the coming weeks.
Those of Vox confirm that the strategy that the Popular Party has decided to put into practice for now – which involves isolating the extreme right despite the fact that its support is essential in regions such as the Valencian Community or Extremadura – is being fulfilled to the letter . The leaders Santiago Abascal and Alberto Núñez Feijóo spoke after knowing the results to congratulate each other in a formal conversation. And that’s it.
“We are patient and we are responsible, but the Spanish have urgent needs,” insisted Abascal, who has considered that the investiture sessions should not be postponed until the general elections are held because this would respond to an electoral “strategy”.
“We don’t like strategies, we like clarity and being able to tell the Spanish what we are going to do”, at the same time that he has criticized, alluding to the Popular Party, that “others” want to avoid making decisions before the next appointment election on July 23.
