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FAES' warning to Vox when Le Pen is a "cowardly far-right"

The confrontation between the two parties is getting tougher, also with the intervention of José María Aznar's foundation

PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo chatting with Vox leader Santiago Abascal in the Congress of Deputies in an archive image.
25/02/2025
2 min

BarcelonaAs Vox delves into the mess of its international alliances that support Vladimir Putin's argument on Ukraine, with Donald Trump as an emblem, the PP is rubbing its hands together at the contradictions that this poses to the far-right party. Not only because of the Putinism of a good part of its allies, led by the Hungarian Viktor Orbán. In the popular ranks they have read it from the perspective of "they will do it", because they understand the damage that the avalanche of tariffs can cause in Spain. Vox, on the other hand, clung to the Trump model to defend its political horizon by minimizing the drawbacks. But there is still the Chapter of the victory of the Christian Democrats The CDU's opposition in the German elections, which has pledged to look to its left to forge alliances and veto the radical right of Alternative for Germany (AfD). However, the fight has not only been behind the scenes: the accusations have escalated into a war in which the two Spanish parties are throwing plates at each other with harsh accusations, warnings and reproaches.

The slaps from the PP to Vox and vice versa do not stop, and even the foundation of former Spanish president José María Aznar, FAES, has intervened. "If you are in a place where they call Le Pen's partycowardly far right, worry: you will only be able to compete with Genghis Khan," he says in one of his last public notes. Aznar's people They also criticize "the sea of doubts of the patriotic Trumpism" and the "raised arms" of the "nationalist international", full of Nazi salutes, while they regret that Vox did not listen to the Italian Giorgia Meloni, with whom it broke in Europe last year and who defends Ukraine. A harshness that does not come from nowhere: the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, went on the attack against the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, after the German elections: "Serious question so that the Spaniards know what to expect. Would you make a pact with socialists and the extreme left, as your German partner will do with Vox?"

Feijóo has been lamenting for days that Vox says "yes to Trump to everything." "Why so much anxiety about who we will govern with if the first thing they do after reaching agreements in autonomous communities is to hastily and unilaterally abandon the governments?" he criticized on Monday. The popular leader demands, following the German elections, what he has always wanted: that the socialists let the winner govern so as not to have to make a pact with Vox. Hence, he has praised that "the winner is legitimized to govern."

In fact, he was even more forceful against Vox: "They must choose between their international dependencies and the interests of the Spanish people," said the Galician leader, who wanted to make it clear that "the PP does not depend on anyone." Meanwhile, Trump's right-hand man, Elon Musk, has once again starred in foreign interference saying that "Vox is going to win the next elections." And in the middle of the brawl, A Vox maneuver torments Feijóo: the request to renounce the European policies of the last decades in exchange for the autonomous budgets.

Finally, the FAES finishes the subject by criticizing Pedro Sánchez for the accusations of "collaborationism" while making a pact with independentists: "A good day to break with the Nazis who speak of the Spanish as "idiot beasts"", says the last public note of the foundation.

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