After crossing the Rubicon of Pedro Sánchez's inauguration, before which PP and Vox coordinated their strategies to prevent – without success – their flourishing, the two right-wing parties have started a mutual war that, for now, remains intact alliances. However, tensions are rising between Popular and Vox, with accusations emerging between both parties, which co-govern five autonomous communities and the country's main city councils. The latest tensions arose due to the words of Santiago Abascal from Buenos Aires, where he declared in an interview that “there will be a moment when the people will want to hang the president of the government by his feet.” The leader of the PP , Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has condemned these statements, while the spokesman of the PP, Borja Sémper, has accused the ultra leader of “provoking violence” with such statements. At the same time, the extreme right is bringing charges against one of the main leaders of the PP, Esteban González Pons, because of his son's professional activities, which is extremely straining the climate between the two allied parties.
Feijóo has condemned Abascal's statements about Sánchez and also accused him of “playing the game” of the socialist president. The leader of the PP also attacked Sánchez, saying that the Vox leader's words “go in the same direction as those of President Sánchez, to build a wall between the two Spains”, but he clearly distanced himself from Abascal. “Not only are they reprehensible, we have nothing to do with such statements, we deeply regret them,” he said on Telecinco, to which Abascal responded with anger against the PP leader. “They react to the manipulations of the government and its media prostitutes as if they were reality. And they apologize to the left as soon as they start speaking. They are the nostalgic people of the cowardly right. Better to have a wall against the coup than to sit with the coup plotters and negotiate guidelines, commissions and seats. The deception of the Spanish people; “We condemn that,” complained the Ultra leader.
After Feijóo, PP spokesman Borja Sémper accused Abascal of “provoking violence” with these words, which he described as “absolutely reprehensible” on both an “ethical” and “political” level. “Mr Abascal has the virtue when the government gets into trouble to give it oxygen,” complained Sémper. “In addition to the ethical rejection expressed by every sensible person, today we are talking about this and less about amnesty. We have a different style.”
Despite the conflict, sources from the PP leadership exclude that these tensions are causing problems in their joint governments with Vox, nor do they consider it a contradiction to distance themselves from the increasingly radical tendency of the far-right party and at the same time their alliances to keep intact. At a press conference after the steering committee meeting, the party's spokesman, Borja Sémper, dodged the question of what impact it would have on the relationship between their governments that the PP was so forcefully distancing itself from Abascal's words, while insisting that Vox and Abascal “necessary” to be collaborators” in the strategy of tension and the attempt to create “two large irreconcilable blocs in Spain”.
But the Ultra party did not stop there and launched an attack against one of the most important popular leaders and a person who Feijóo trusted closely: deputy secretary Esteban González Pons. The point of attack against the population is information published by OkDiario this Monday, which claims that the son of the deputy secretary, Esteban González Guitart, was the representative of the Russian energy company Gazprom in 2017, while González Pons was a MEP.
Some of Vox's top leaders, such as Jorge Buxadé, the party's first vice president, spread the news on social networks, raising suspicions against González Pons. “At the age of 25, González Pons' son was the 'representative in Spain' of Putin's mega-corporation Gazprom; and according to the news he says he's figuring it out now. At that time, Puigdemont carried out a coup. González Pons did his thing in Brussels,” Buxadé wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
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Sources from the PP leadership confirm that González Pons' son acted as a representative of the energy company during his time as a lawyer for Baker & McKenzie, but they claim that he did so together with a group of lawyers from this firm who were responsible for the presentation The documents relating to the legal representation of the company were responsible. González Pons remained silent as tensions between the two allied parties continued to escalate.
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