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The rupture of PP and Vox unleashes the dispute of the right-wing electorate

2020-10-24T00:51:08.497Z


Casado resumes the centrist course and Abascal aspires to occupy the rest of his spaceThe president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, passes in front of the bench of the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, in the motion of censure of Vox.EUROPA PRESS / E. Vine. POOL - Eu / Europa Press The relationship between Pablo Casado and Santiago Abascal, personal and political, has radically changed since their "brutal" breakup during the debate on Vox's vote of no confidence, and that upheaval will ha


The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, passes in front of the bench of the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, in the motion of censure of Vox.EUROPA PRESS / E.

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The relationship between Pablo Casado and Santiago Abascal, personal and political, has radically changed since their "brutal" breakup during the debate on Vox's vote of no confidence, and that upheaval will have consequences in the center-right space.

In the PP they defend with "pride" the new return to the moderate and pro-European center of Casado and think that this turn gives him more options to one day reach the Presidency of the Government.

In Vox they consider that Casado has already abandoned the entire right and leaves that space free to grow and be the only tough and credible opposition to Pedro Sánchez.

Casado's PP was in great need of insulin and the enthusiastic general reception of his speech against Abascal this Thursday in Congress has been more than a glucose shot.

The national leadership of the popular gathered this Friday dozens of messages and public statements from all kinds of leaders, territorial barons and elected officials spread throughout Spain, in which a frenzied competition of compliments towards the quality of its president and his oratory was reflected .

Most of those pronouncements emphasized that Casado had finally managed, with this planned intervention, to consolidate himself as a leader, more than two years after having won the primaries in the last party congress.

On the main floor of the national headquarters, what was appreciated the most, however, was that with that very therapeutic speech, Casado had come a little closer to La Moncloa in the center, as summarized by Pablo Montesinos, the Vice Secretary for Communication.

And he added: “This PP is the sensible alternative because instead of fighting, it offers solutions;

instead of fanfare, it offers an economic shock plan and a health state pact ”.

There will be no equidistance, as Vox reproaches, but state negotiations could be considered.

The former president of Congress, Ana Pastor, recalled that next week they will again require from the Government support for legal reforms against the pandemic in the middle of the second wave of the virus and when the Executive already prepares an extraordinary Council of Ministers to decree another state of alarm before the avalanche of requests from various regional governments.

Montesinos and other leaders advanced the idea that in this new stage there will be "censorship of the Government but also proposals and solutions."

It remains to be seen if the PP supports a new proposal for a state of alarm, because for now they reject it.

Jaime de Olano, the National Deputy Secretary for Participation, outlined the objective of this strategy: “Casado marked the line that the center-right has to follow in order to recover sooner rather than later the Government of the nation and end the dark times represented by Sánchez and Churches ”.

Teodoro García Egea, number two, praised Casado as the “safe” value promoted by the militants two years ago in the party's Congress and presented that PP as “the real, forceful, serious, honest and responsible counterweight that Spain needs ”.

The popular secretary general gave another clue to the underlying reason for the dramatic unchecking of Casado with Vox and the far right: "The anti-European discourse and critical of Abascal's autonomous state could not count on the indifference of the PP since Europe is stopping its feet to the judicial reform of Sánchez and Iglesias thanks to Pablo Casado's trip to Brussels, and the autonomous communities are acting as a counterweight to the decisions of Illa, Sánchez and Simón and their totalitarian drift: Less talking about China and more about Chana " he said in reference to the neighborhood of the same name.

Vox, for its part, considers the implicit non-aggression pact that existed between Abascal and Casado as broken.

The ultra leader is considered attacked.

Moreover, he was betrayed and “mercilessly and unfairly kicked”, in his words, by someone with whom he had a cordial relationship.

For Abascal, what happened in the debate on the motion of censure "has changed the landscape in a radical way," he assured this Friday on EsRadio.

Vox is sure to respond.

But it will not do so by taking revenge on the regional and municipal governments of coalition between the PP and Citizens who depend on their votes.

Abascal ratified it this Friday: “We are not going to give a proportional response to the aggression.

It's not going to change anything. "

What is going to change radically is his attitude towards the PP, which has ceased to be an ally to become an adversary to beat.

Abascal announced this Friday that Vox will open a "period of reflection."

He believes that Casado's unexpected speech has moved the entire political board and that the tremendous blow he gave him may end up being his opportunity.

Vox was born in 2014 from a split from the PP led by discontent with the politics of Mariano Rajoy.

Casado's victory over Rajoy's successor, former Vice President Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, in the July 2018 congress, reduced his political space, despite his spectacular electoral growth.

In recent months, Casado's speech was often confused with Abascal's, and the dialectical aggressiveness of the Popular Group's former spokesperson, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, had nothing to envy the diatribes of the Vox deputy Macarena Olona.

Abascal had not used the adjective "cowardly right" against the PP for a long time.

Vox believes that Casado's abrupt swerve towards the political center leaves him a wide playing field.

According to its leader, the right wing has not come out divided from the inauguration debate because "the PP has renounced [BE] the right wing."

Vox's strategy involves launching a hostile takeover bid on PP voters who have become accustomed to a bitter and tense opposition and will be left "politically orphans" if Casado consummates the shift towards moderation and reaches state pacts with the Government, as expected.

To broaden his electoral base to the right and scratch votes for the PP, Abascal is aware that he must file some edges of his speech.

This Friday he acknowledged that he had committed some "verbal excess" in the congressional debate;

where he compared the EU with the People's Republic of China or with "Hitler's dream Europe".

The reflection that Vox announces will be aimed at shedding its most eccentric profiles to stay "with the essentials", in the words of Abascal: the visceral confrontation with the left and the independentistas.

A strategy that is to be tested already in the Catalan elections, on February 14, to which they give maximum relevance and in which they will present, for the first time, a candidate, Ignacio Garriga, who served in the motion of spokesperson.

After the initial confusion, those responsible for Vox assured this Friday that they were receiving a barrage of new affiliations of ex-militants of the PP disappointed with Casado.

"He has won in the newspapers, he has lost among the voters," the leader headlined.

Source: elparis

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