It has taken the PSOE years to learn to live with Podemos and this is what is now happening to the PP with Vox. What should be done with a party that is an electoral rival and, in turn, needs it to govern? This is the question that Feijóo and his renewed team have to answer. Because any tenant of Génova 13 will only reach Moncloa if he manages to reduce his rival on the right. As long as both, PP and Vox, compete for a few seats in a few provinces it is very difficult to add majorities. It is mathematics, pure D’Hondt formula.
The fact is that Santiago Abascal, who was supported by three million Spaniards less than five months ago (it should not be underestimated), traveled to Milei’s inauguration. Vox is not having a good time. From Buenos Aires, Abascal said that “there will be a moment when the people will want to hang Sánchez by the feet”. And a sacramental was armed on social networks.
The X network is the thermometer that political parties look to to gauge the waves of indignation. The PSOE did not waste the agreement (it had put it on a tray) and, in a week that was expected to be complicated for the socialists due to the processing of the amnesty law, Abascal gave him an oxygen balloon.
The PSOE came out as a bloc, but not against Vox, but against the PP: “Mr. Feijóo, do you like what your far-right partner says, with whom he governs in autonomous communities and town councils?” asked Santos Cerdán, number three from Ferraz.
The PP did what it had to do and it was Feijóo himself who condemned Abascal’s statements without much trouble. The author of the unfortunate phrase answered yesterday in Congress: “I will never join the lynchings against you”. The battle on the right is open.
It goes without saying that Vox wanted to clarify afterwards that Abascal’s outburst is taken out of context. “If you watch the video, you will realize that it is a sentence formulated from a metaphor and from a figurative sense”, said Pepe Millán. It’s not asking much for politicians to drop the insult. Not all citizens like “fruit”.
As long as the vote of the right continues to be divided between two parties, the left will have an advantage to join the pro-independence parties. And the same thing happens on the left: if it is divided into three brands, Feijóo has more options to add a majority. This maxim applies both to reach Moncloa and to the next Galician elections. It’s math.
