“In the streets, agitation. In the stands, anger and insults. In Parliament, two sterile motions of no confidence. And, everywhere, hate.” This is, in the opinion of Pedro Sánchez, Vox’s contribution to Spanish politics. The President of the Government has refuted Santiago Abascal’s speech, in the first direct reply from him to the ultra-right leader in the debate on a motion of censure that he has described as “destructive, bizarre and delusional”. Sánchez has linked Abascal’s ultra-right with the Popular Party at all times, before an absent Alberto Núñez Feijóo. “The PP is as responsible as Vox for the immense damage that this delusional motion of censure does to Spanish democracy.”
Sánchez has warned that the announced abstention of the PP before this second motion of censure promoted by Vox in this legislature “is a deferred payment”, which has hinted that it will end up costing Feijóo dearly. “Be careful: this business is one of those that leave a stain,” he has alerted the PP bench.
“No matter how much they try to separate, they are like two peas in a pod to the PP,” Sánchez warned the Vox bench. The only difference, he has assured, is that Vox adds “a plus of brutality” in his speech.
The President of the Government has denounced the “strategy of criminalization and hatred” of the extreme right, as a PP that has gone too far, with a cascade of “messages harmful to democracy.” “Vox is to Spanish politics like ultra-processed food is to the Mediterranean diet,” the PSOE leader ironized. “Vox is the glutamate of the right, a simple radical and extreme flavor enhancer,” he has accused.
Sánchez has insisted that the speech that Abascal has used to defend the motion of no confidence only “feeds his ultra parishioner.” But he has lamented that he also “drags the PP”, fearful, in his opinion, of being considered “the cowardly right”. The head of the Executive has thus highlighted that both the PP and Vox agree to demand an immediate advance of the general elections to liquidate this legislature. But he has stressed that “it is not to give the citizens a voice, but to interrupt the action of this legitimate government.” In this sense, Sánchez has argued that the ultra-right is not promoting this motion of censure against him for the unity of Spain, to save the Constitution, to recover the economy or fight corruption. “What motivates them is to stop by any means the policies of the progressive coalition government,” he has settled.
