Abascal rejects the PP's conditions and demands that they stop treating them like "savages"

BarcelonaSantiago Abascal turns against the PP. The Vox leader has called the ten-point document prepared by the Popular Party to address the negotiations with the far-right across the country and has denounced that they are being treated like "savages" who need to be "tamed." "This sounds bad to me, it's starting off on the wrong foot," he lamented in an interview this Tuesday on Antena 3. Faced with the outrage of the far-right party, the Popular Party has argued that it is a "problem of interpretation." "There's a mistake. The document isn't for Vox, it's for the PP," Alberto Núñez Feijóo replied in statements to the halls of Congress. Abascal confessed his annoyance that the PP's ten-point plan refers to issues "obvious" to Vox, such as national unity, the constitutional framework, and the rule of law. He said he would understand highlighting them if the objective were agreements with Junts, for example. "But I don't understand it to make deals with Vox," he stressed. Within the ten-point "single and binding" framework document for addressing negotiations with Vox, another point concerns regional budgets. The text, to which ARA has had access, includes a demand that Abascal's party commit to approving the public accounts for an entire legislative term. All of this is taking place within the context of the back-and-forth negotiations for the investiture in Extremadura, which Feijóo has decided to lead alongside the candidate and acting president, María Guardiola. This oversight will also be extended to Jorge Azcón in Aragon, and the PP does not rule out extending it to Alfonso Fernández Mañueco in Castile and León if, after the March 15 elections, his dependence on the far right is also confirmed. Feijóo has insisted that he does not understand why a party "should be upset" by an internal clarification directed at its members. barons with the "principles with which they intend to govern" in territories where they do not have an absolute majority.

The Ortega Smith case

Vox can boast of having a strong position in these communities, but at the same time it faces challenges in Madrid. a major internal crisis Following the provisional expulsion from the party of one of its founders and until now spokesperson in the City Council, Javier Ortega Smith, the councilman appeared this morning at the municipal plenary session, flanked by the other two suspended councilors, Carla Toscano and Ignacio Ansaldo, determined to stand up to Abascal's leadership. "We will not let the people of Madrid down, we will not deceive them, and we will not forget them," he said at the entrance to the plenary session, and directly attacked the leadership of his party. "Some will have to answer to the people of Madrid for why, given such a serious situation in Spain, with so many problems, with a government of delinquents and criminals, they have chosen to put this municipal group in a position of confrontation and division." "We continue working exactly the same as on day one, for the good of Madrid," he added.

In his interview on Antena 3, Abascal responded to Ortega Smith, stating that he and the team he has appointed are the ones who "command" and "will continue to command" Vox. He asserted that he has "no guilty conscience" about it and made it clear that the party's rules must be followed by both member number 68,000 and number 6, which is Ortega Smith's membership number. At the same time, the far-right leader downplayed the power struggle within the municipal group, claiming that "it's not a rebellion" and that "it's of no importance."