With the investiture of María Guardiola in Extremadura unblocked after the PP candidate has chosen to “swallow her words” regarding her red lines before Vox, the attention of the regional pacts prior to the 23-J elections is in Murcia in where the ultranationalists are willing to force an electoral repetition if the acting president, the popular Fernando López-Miras, does not allow them to enter the Executive in the form of vice-presidency and/or councils. This was confirmed this Monday by its national leader, Santiago Abascal, justifying the blockade due to the “non-compliance” that the Popular Party has made with the investiture agreements of previous legislatures, as, he has pointed out, “it happened in Madrid”.
Abascal has been firm in an interview in Espejo Público where he has rejected that two of his nine parliamentarians could abstain in the vote to allow the investiture of López Miras. After calling it “curious” that other parties even propose that the representation of a party can be divided, the national leader of Vox has vindicated the role of Vox in Murcia, recalling that its strength there is “greater than in other regions in which we have entered in government” in reference to what happened in the Valencian Community.
The ultranationalist leader, in fact, has recalled how the PP sponsored the entry of Cs into the Murcia Executive of the last legislature when the orange party had fewer deputies than his party with “the aggravating circumstance” that López Miras ended up governing with ” defectors from Vox” after the controversial motion of no confidence in 2021.”There will be no blank checks for investitures because the PP does not comply with what it agrees to. That is why Vox must enter the Government”(…) and the rest is a “blackmail and a lack of respect”, he has insisted.
Asked if it is possible for Vox to change his mind at the last minute and allow a lone government of the PP in Murcia, the Basque leader was ironic when he said he would have to leave the set and hit himself “with one of these cameras” and then “I could do something stupid, but that’s not going to happen.”
Uncomfortable by the poor results that polls give him, such as the Ipsos one published this weekend by La Vanguardia, Abascal says he does not trust any poll by defining it as a simple “vote mobilization tool.” And asked about those managed by the PP and that mark a rise of the popular against the decline of the ultranationalists, the leader of Vox has complained that these studies “are always very unsympathetic to Vox because the devil loads them… it’s say, the payer”. “My survey is the street and the support I receive from the public in each act.”
The ultra candidate for 23-J has remained firm in his roadmap to bet on “tax rebates, immigration control, support for the countryside and freedom of parents when deciding the moral conformation of their children in educational matters” and He has praised its implementation in Castilla y León, where Vox has governed with the PP since March 2022, despite the fact that the polls there predict a significant setback to the point of not obtaining a single deputy in the next general elections.
Given the absence of economic memory in his electoral program, and without advancing any other measure, Abascal has reiterated that the “tax reduction” that he promises and the “liberalization of all land that is not protected” for the construction of affordable apartments will reverse the problem of access to housing among young people and the middle classes.
Less short on words, however, has been shown at the end of the economic bloc. The Vox leader has insisted that the Comprehensive Law on Gender Violence “has served to criminalize men” and “not to protect women”, since, he has assured, “the number of women murdered does not decrease with this law”.
After denying gender violence as such, Abascal has had no qualms about accusing the central government of “increasing rapes in Spain” by “not reducing the cases of murders of women and increasing rapes by putting the worst sexual criminals on the street “. And annoyed by the questions, he has acknowledged that he is “tired of always having to answer the same thing as if Vox voters or we were okay with killing women.”
