Abascal after the election of Peramato as attorney general: “We have to be very prepared”
The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, refuses to give a margin of confidence to the new State Attorney General, Teresa Peramato, not so much because of her profile but because of the fact that her appointment corresponds to the Government. In an interview with the program Public Mirror of Antena 3, Santiago Abascal has avoided even evaluating the professional career of Álvaro García Ortiz’s successor, alleging that the President of the Government, “who is fleeing from Justice and robbing Spaniards of the possibility of expressing themselves at the polls, is not going to make any decision, including this appointment, to put himself at risk. Frankly, I think we have to be very cautious.”
Abascal has criticized that the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, demanded that the election of the new prosecutor have the endorsement of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and has recalled that its composition was agreed between popular and socialists. The leader of Vox has confirmed that his party will wait to hear the speech of the popular candidate for president of the Valencian Community, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, this Thursday before deciding his vote. “We will listen to him carefully and, if in that investiture speech, out loud and before all Spaniards, the commitments that we want and that we have been talking about these days are made, we will be able to support that investiture,” he stressed. For Abascal, a written pact like the one reached with the PP at other times is no longer useful because “they tend to remain on empty paper. We prefer that through their mouths the commitments are acquired with light and stenographers before everyone. That will determine the meaning of our vote,” he insisted.
