It was scheduled for March, but the leadership of Vox, at the behest of its leader, Santiago Abascal, decided yesterday to advance its general assembly to the end of January, in which it is expected that the far-right party will renew the leadership to give a new impetus to training, after the bad results of the last generals, with a view to the next four years.
This was announced by Abascal himself in a press conference in which he also confirmed that he would stand for re-election as president of Vox, a position he has held since the founding of the party, a decade ago.
The ultra leader spoke of the need to introduce changes in the governing bodies and said that he did not know if he would have any rival in the assembly, that, if he ran for it, he should have, in principle, a 10 % of endorsements, although this percentage could be reduced to 5% or 3% if no applicants make it.
After high-profile departures such as those of Macarena Olona and Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, Vox planned to hold this general assembly in March, but Abascal and his colleagues have decided to bring it forward to avoid the conclave coinciding with the new electoral cycle, which it starts on February 18 in Galicia and will continue with the Basque elections in the spring and the European elections in June, and also in view of the possibility that internal contestation will increase.
After acknowledging that his party is going through a “very difficult” moment, which he extended to the whole of Spain due to the “coup d’état” that, in his opinion, has been perpetrated by the coalition government, the leader of Vox he put on the bandage before the wound to try to make a pineapple around his figure: “Inten-divide us and confront us”, announced Abascal.
The conditional offer of the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo to agree on the anti-crisis decree is for the ultra-right an example of the extent to which the conservatives can become Pedro Sánchez’s “saving table” in this turbulent legislature, so that Abascal, behind this “balloon of oxygen” for the Spanish president, predicted new “attacks” against Vox, this time with the PP and the PSOE going “arm in arm”.
This alleged strategy of division, said Abascal, will consist of “looking for currents and bringing on television anyone who decides to betray the approaches of Vox”.
