The PSOE has decided to take Vox and its president to court both for the words uttered by Santiago Abascal in an interview in Clarín, in which he said that “the people will want to hang Sánchez by the feet”, and for the “violent” mobilizations ” against the headquarters of the socialists on Ferraz street in Madrid.
This has been explained by the spokesperson for the socialist group in Congress, Patxi López, who sees both in Abascal’s words and in the actions of “harassment, threat and attack” by Vox in Ferraz and against different People’s Houses “a clear crime of hatred against the socialist party”. “We want the full weight of the law and the Penal Code to fall on Abascal and Vox,” he said in a press conference in the Lower House.
The socialist spokesperson added that the group is drafting the complaint that it will “surely” present to the Prosecutor’s Office tomorrow, Wednesday. López wanted to clarify that his group is interested in the complaint not only containing the words, in reference to the controversial interview with Abascal, but also “the actions.”
“We are not talking about any nonsense because those words are what some can use as justification for violence, for violent actions,” said the former socialist president, who has called Vox “professional haters.”
“If Pedro Sánchez is a tyrant who must be hanged by the feet, if we are the enemies of Spain, then go for them, in any case, anything goes,” argued López, for whom “in this country there are many people who are waiting to attack because it is being fed with hatred.
For this reason, the socialist spokesperson has taken the opportunity to denounce a “lukewarm” PP that, despite having rejected Abascal’s words, “immediately afterwards put a but” and, in his opinion, in the face of the condemnations “there is no room for buts because “buts are justifications.”
López has warned that there is “a danger for democracy and democracies” and that this is the extreme right. “First the electoral results are questioned, then the adversary is delegitimized and then violence is incited: this is what is destroying democratic systems and this is what Vox is doing,” denounced the socialist leader while reproaching to the PP that continues to have Vox as partners. “The PP cannot be neither lukewarm nor neutral nor look elsewhere,” he concluded.