The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has accused the PP of “overacting” after the Extremaduran president and candidate for reelection, María Guardiola, came to warn of the “theft of democracy.” Although Abascal has said that his party is also concerned about the cleanliness of the recount and that the elections “are not free from being intervened or manipulated,” he has assumed that it is a common crime, as determined by the police investigation, and has criticized that the popular party is “overacting” in this matter, after its general secretary, Miguel Tellado, asked at the time that the envelopes with the Spanish flag that carried the Vox ballot in Galicia be removed from the mailboxes.
At the closing of his party’s campaign, held at the Badajoz Congress Palace, in front of more than 500 people, the Vox leader responded to Guardiola, who said that he would run out of Extremadura after the elections, claiming that he will not wait for the polls to close since he planned to leave this Friday, at the end of the rally, to be with his family; But anyway, she added, it is the regional president who calls her on Monday “so she can come back running” if she needs your votes to be invested.
“Our north, our proposal, our convictions, are on the table, all Extremadurans know them and Mrs. Guardiola knew them before calling these absurd elections,” he stressed, reiterating the idea that the electoral advance is the result of a “personal whim” of the Extremaduran president, which she could have avoided if she had assumed the demands of Vox – among them, the frontal rejection of immigration or the European green pact – as her Valencian counterpart, Juan Francisco, has done. Perez Llorca.
Abascal has not only charged against Guardiola’s “unbearable arrogance”, but has also harshly criticized the national leadership of the PP. “I’m not going to forget that they teach us lessons [de ética] from a headquarters paid for with black money,” he said. In a veiled allusion to the scandal caused by he has complained that the media try to “involve Vox in dirty, shady and alleged corruption matters when it has been an example of honesty and demand for transparency and denunciation in the first place.”
On the other hand, he has praised the mayor of Badalona, and has attacked the Catalan bishops, for criticizing that they are left on the streets, ensuring that “the Episcopal Palace is very big and they can put everyone there.” He then clarified that he said it “as a joke”, since what needs to be done in his opinion is to expel them from Spain.
For his part, the general secretary of the ultra party, Ignacio Garriga, has justified Abascal’s prominence in an election in which he is not a candidate, ensuring that Vox “does not have to hide its president” and that the national leaders of the party have gone to Extremadura to “amplify” the message of its head of the list, although his profile has been eclipsed by that strategy. The continuity of the Almaraz nuclear power plant and the implementation of the Tierra de Barros irrigation plan have been the main demands of the Vox candidate, who has also promised to give priority to Extremadurans in access to public aid.
