Zaragoza, Feb 24 (EFE).- The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has defended this Friday in Zaragoza the motion of no confidence against Pedro Sánchez and his candidate, Ramón Tamames, and has reproached the PP for its “painful statements” and the ” ridicule” and “hostility” that they have received from the formation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
The president of Vox has been received among cheers by the crowded crowded Palace of Congresses in the Aragonese capital shouting ‘Long live Spain!’ and ‘¡Viva Vox!’, and accompanied by the Vox candidate for the Presidency of the Government of Aragon, Alejandro Nolasco, and the candidate for mayor of Zaragoza, Julio Calvo.
Although Abascal has not referred to the motion of censure against Pedro Sánchez that he will present his formation this Monday until the middle of his speech, when the time has come, he has reproached the PP for its “painful statements” and the “ridicule” and “hostility ” that they have received from the training of Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
He has denied that this initiative is going to strengthen Sánchez, as the popular supporters maintain, and has stressed that “it is the PP that has the duty to show patriotism by supporting this motion, instead of ridiculing it.”
In addition, he has criticized that “nasty words” are being used about his proposal, such as that it is “a grotesque” or about the age of the economist Ramón Tamames, 89, who is the one who will defend it as a candidate for the presidency of the Government.
“I suppose you have seen him in interviews these days, he has a much better head than many deputies”, he pointed out about what he considers a “totally pernicious and unacceptable” debate, since “older people must be respected”.
And it is that, in his opinion, “they want the elderly with a slightly higher pension and quiet.” “But don’t think about going to the Congressional rostrum, because then it’s a grotesque,” he criticized.
Regarding Tamames, he said that Vox wanted a “trained and independent” person to defend the motion: “If we wanted whoever would go up to the rostrum to defend Vox’s proposals from A to Z, I would have gone up,” he clarified.
For him, the true objective of this motion of censure it is that “the coup plotters and separatists” take a picture and that “all of Europe see who Sánchez’s partners are.”
“We are going to try everything, while others do not try anything and are dedicated to criticizing,” he said about this defense, which in his opinion places the PP “in a compromised situation.”
In a speech in which Abascal has accused the media of “silencing” and “demonizing” the party he presides over, he has also harshly criticized the Sánchez Executive: “an illegitimate government that is the worst in our history ”.