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 throughout the country and has denounced that they are being treated like "savages" who need to be "tamed." "The music sounds bad to me, it's starting off on the wrong foot," he lamented in an interview this Tuesday on Antena 3.

Abascal confessed his annoyance that Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party'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 for making deals with Vox," he stressed. Within the "single and binding" ten-point framework document for addressing negotiations with Vox, another point concerns the regional budgets. The text, which ARA has accessed, includes the demand that Santiago 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 tug-of-war surrounding the investiture negotiations in Extremadura, which Feijóo has decided to lead alongside the candidate and acting president, María Guardiola. This oversight will also extend 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.

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."