The leader of the extreme right, Santiago Abascal, says he has “no doubt” that “the tensions” will return to Catalonia if the Popular Party and Vox coexist in La Moncloa after the next general elections. What’s more, the leader of the far-right formation predicts that there will be “worse” moments than those that occurred in 2017, when the illegal referendum was held at the most critical moments of the independence process. “With a government in which Vox is in, what happened with Mariano Rajoy, who agreed to a 155 joke, will not happen again.”
The Vox candidate for the presidency of the Government, who says he is facing the final stretch of the electoral campaign “without the torture of the polls” —which all of them predict a collapse of his party—, predicts that the independence movement will grow again in Catalonia if The Popular Party and Vox put together an alternative to the progressive government that, in their opinion, “has betrayed thousands of Spaniards” with “cessions to the separatists.”
Faced with this hypothetical rise of independence that Abascal predicts, the ultra leader says he has the formula to stop it if he sits on the Council of Ministers. This recipe does not involve applying article 155 of the Constitution, as the government of Mariano Rajoy did to dismiss the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, and his ministers. That, he has despised, “was a joke.” “The State’s lawyers should not have studied in the opposition what a coup d’état is,” he criticized.
“You have to impose the law. We are not going to hesitate ”, he stated this Tuesday during an informative breakfast organized by Europa Press. And this happens by “not limiting the intervention to a month, but a lasting and sustained intervention, which uses all the resources of the State to convince the population in Catalonia and restore harmony.”
—Do you think there is any possibility of returning to situations similar to those of 2017?
—And worse. I do not have any doubt.
