The leader of the extreme right, Santiago Abascal, has not carried out his threat to withdraw his support for the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for a possible investiture. After several days — after Vox was excluded from the Congress Table — sowing doubts, the ultra president has announced to King Felipe VI that he will support the president of the popular, but with conditions. Among them, the public commitment “not to collaborate in any way —neither by action nor by omission— in the sanitary cordon that is intended to be raised against Vox.”
Abascal, who has appeared in Congress in a brief intervention without admitting questions from the press, has reported that support for the popular has become more expensive after the disagreement experienced by the right in the constitution of the Table of the Congress of Deputies, when those of Santiago Abascal were left without the vice presidency to which they aspired. They do not break with the Popular Party, giving Feijóo a penultimate oxygen balloon for his appointment this afternoon with Felipe VI.
But now, there are four conditions that have been listed by Abascal. The first thing the extreme right wants is an “unequivocal demonstration” that the Popular Party “respects” its three million voters. These, they say, do not understand how the third political force in Congress, with 33 seats, has been excluded from the Table.
Then, Vox wants the conservative formation to “publicly” value the agreements that both right-wing parties have closed in five autonomies and more than one hundred municipalities. This condition involves “disavowal” of those who “attack or question” these pacts “permanently.”
Abascal has also demanded the commitment to “recover the neutrality of the institutions and democratic normality.” A mantra that he has repeated in the last two electoral campaigns. Finally, a commitment “to put an end to the claim of some minorities to impose apartheid on three million Spaniards and the third largest political force in Spain.”
King Felipe VI received this Tuesday at the Palacio de la Zarzuela the president of the ultra formation on the occasion of the round of consultations to determine the support that political leaders have to propose a candidate for the investiture as Prime Minister. After the representatives of UPN, the Canary Islands Coalition, PNV and Sumar passed through the hearing room yesterday, this Tuesday it is the turn of Vox, PSOE and Partido Popular. None of them is currently guaranteed the success of his investiture, despite the fact that yesterday the Socialists got out “of the competition” for being the first to attend it, as the popular claim.