Vox intensifies his attacks on the PP to break the European consensus | Spain

« Either you change radically or you will get Sanchez to win the elections. » Thus, without much regard, Santiago Abascal was thrown to Alberto Núñez Feijóo in Congress during the debate on the 7th day after the president’s appearance to talk about the blackout of April 28 and the defense policy. Abascal’s words passed somewhat unnoticed in the middle of the pulse between Pedro Sánchez and Feijóo. The VOX leader had closed his speech, after preventing his PP counterpart against agreements as signed by the conservative parties of Germany and Austria in order to close the passage to the extreme right. « He cannot listen to the orders of the European PP, » Abascal ordered to Feijóo, after admonishing him for having offered Sánchez to negotiate a « National Pact for Energy. »

Feijóo did as if he had not heard the Vox leader and dedicated himself to the fray with the president. At the end of the debate, already in the halls, before the question of why they had not answered Abascal, in the direction of the PP they shrugged and argued: « But what covenant have we signed with Sánchez? »

One of the regional barons of the PP, Murcia Fernando López Miras, went to Congress last Tuesday to defend before the plenary In order to increase the Tajo-Segura transfer. His countryman and deputy of Vox Lourdes Méndez Monastery received him with a barrage in which he called PSOE and PP as « cowards » and « traitors » to the National Hydrological Plan. López Miras, despite recognizing « personal affection, » accused him of « deceiving » farmers. The PP deputy who closed the debate, Sergio Sayas, fit the attacks without a single replica. Everything was to atize the PSOE. The next day, Vox charged Feijóo for having been absent in the vote of the proposal, defeated by a single suffrage of difference after the ultras supported her, in spite of her criticisms.

Scenes are repeated lately in Congress. Each intervention of the Vox representatives, after the usual count of iniquities attributed to the government, includes some thick dart against the PP. The popular do not enter the rag in the vast majority of the occasions. Or, at most, they replicate gently. The main core of Vox reproaches to the PP is directed to consensus between the two great European political families in Brussels, conservatives and social democrats. Especially the Green Pact and the fight against global warming, issues that have been discussed intensely these days in Congress following the blackout.

A PP member, the Valencian President, Carlos Mazón, He hugged weeks ago the hard speech against the green pact in exchange for Vox support to its budgets. Last Tuesday, before the Plenary of Congress, deputy Ultra Andrés Rodríguez Almeida gave an example to the Valencian Community and placed the PP: « Ciller: either they are with the Spaniards or are with the globalist agenda. » Similar interventions of the Abascal group happened that day. Ricardo Chamorro charged against the « incompetence of the European PP and Ursula von der Leyen », whom he responsible for establishing the « ecophanatic ruin. » Juan José Aizcorbe abounded: « The PP has bought without grinding the climate dogma, although now some make opposition fuss, it depends on where and in front of whom. »

The next day, in another debate on energy policy, Ignacio Hoces took over with a speech that brought to memory The melody of the « coward right »: « You cannot be an opposition with fear, with lukewarm. Vox is here to say what you shut up, to recover what you deliver. » The previous week, the extreme right had voted with all the allies of Sánchez Against the PP energy strategy. A very uncommon gesture, because Vox has supported this legislature in plenary 90% of the initiatives of the Feijóo party.

With the hot energy debate, the Socialists defended this week a proposition not of the law so that the Congress ratified the adhesion to the green pact. The popular tried to amend it. His deputy Milagros Marcos slipped some criticisms of Vox’s positions, which labeled populists, and charged frontally against the PSOE. The Government, he said, has adopted European policies against climate change in a « hasty, sectarian and ideologized » way. The energy transition, continued, requires « time and money » to « not lose profitability or competitiveness. » After the socialists refused their amendment, the PP voted against Vox and in front of the rest of the camera, including union of the Navarrese people (UPN), usually aligned in the block on the right. The first point of the initiative that the PP rejected said: « Continue to display the policies that the European Green Pact must develop, guaranteeing that Spain must continue to promote the energy transition, reaffirming in the decarbonization and the fight against climate change. »

The extreme right brought last day 6 to plenary a proposition of the law « in defense of freedom of expression » that disqualified the European Commission and its president for The actions against the social network X. The first point of the proposal contained a trolley: it attributed to the forum of São Paulo, which brings together Latin American leftist forces, the temporary prohibition in Brazil of the Elon Musk network, when in reality it was Agreed by a magistrate of the Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraeswith a previous political trajectory in the rows of the right center. In the debate, the popular Edurne Uriarte completely ignored Vox considerations and extended to accuse the government of attacking freedom of expression. The PP abstained in the vote, a position that has been prodigating before strident proposals of the extreme right. Since the beginning of the legislature, the popular have voted in plenary in favor of almost 40% of the initiatives presented by Vox, have refrained in 36% and have dismissed 24%.