Since it was announced last week that the government was moving forward with passing an amnesty law for Catalan independents, PP and Vox have launched a tough competition to lead the reaction on the streets. For weeks, popular and ultraists have been calling for demonstrations and public events against the pardon measure, until this week this strategy of street agitation increased in intensity and was directed against the PSOE headquarters. The PP, which unlike Vox did not sponsor these recent protests – Ultra leader Santiago Abascal was involved in one of them – initially joined the far right in questioning the police actions in response to the protests . First night of tensions in Ferraz. After the increasingly violent drift in concentrations, which got out of control due to uprisings by neo-Nazis and right-wing extremist groups, a split occurred between PP and Vox. The popular, including the regional presidents who share the government with Vox, explicitly condemn the violence, while the ultras accuse them of “criminalizing” the demonstrations. Abascal has begun to disqualify the PP as “pusillanimous,” increasing tensions between the two allies.
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The PP changed its speech this Wednesday and explicitly condemned the violence after resisting it since Monday afternoon, although the protest in Ferraz that day already ended with police reports and three arrests. The slogan of the management, which had tried to circumvent the ambiguity the day before by criticizing police actions, changed completely on Wednesday to an explicit rejection of violent incidents. Instead, Vox blamed Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska for the riots, accusing him of ordering “absolutely disproportionate measures” and “obviously illegal.” “Violence is Marlaska’s responsibility,” Abascal defended.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo and all his barons, including Isabel Díaz Ayuso – who actually lay before the leader – condemned the riots during the day. “Violence has no place in democracy and must always be rejected. Whether from extreme left or right ultras. Violence has no place in democracy and neither does impunity,” Feijóo said at midday, but pointed to Pedro Sánchez as the person responsible. In the afternoon, the Vox boss brought charges against the PP. “Once again Genoa and its scattered satellites,” Abascal told his people on the social network X, formerly Twitter. “The greatest favor that can be done to the coup plotters is to criminalize protests against the coup. There are the faint-hearted and interested. Those who want to be a soft opposition so that the coup plotters don’t offend them. Those who offer pacts to Sánchez or even Junts. Those who seek to inherit the ruins. No way. We, together with the Spaniards, who are ready to confront those who want to liquidate the law and the nation.”
The PP’s problem in this conflict with Vox is its five shared autonomous governments – Castile and Leon, Murcia, Extremadura, Valencian Community and Aragon – which are burdened by the disagreements between the allies. Together with Feijóo, the regional presidents of the PP protested in a cascade against the violence at the protests, including those who share governments with the Ultras, although their vice presidents had taken part in these concentrations. “Nothing that has to do with violence has to do with the People’s Party. Without relief, be it against anyone. “It cannot be that the demonstrations are unlawful,” emphasized Aragonese President Jorge Azcón. They were all going in the same direction. The president of the Valencian Community, Carlos Mazón, condemned violence “in all its forms, wherever it comes from and against whomever it is directed.”
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But Azcón, like others of his colleagues, ignored the direct reproach to his government partner and avoided evaluating the press conference that took place this Tuesday at the Vox headquarters in Madrid, where Abascal brought together all his vice presidents in the governments of the PP. and with them at the head he called on the police to revolt against La Moncloa. “It is an act of his party. “I am convinced that the police will fulfill their obligation,” Azcón said, trying to downplay the significance. The popular ones act as if they can hear it raining with their ultra partners. Although Abascal’s party has called on its allies to break institutional ties with the incumbent government of Pedro Sánchez, the PP is currently hesitant to follow his lead.
Protest for amnesty at the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street, this Wednesday in Madrid. Samuel Sanchez
However, the PP is forced to find a balance in order not to lose the favor of its social base, which shares with Vox the hostility towards Pedro Sánchez and the indignation at the approval of the amnesty, while trying not to lose the party behavior state . This tension was evident in yesterday’s resignation from one of his public positions as a result of the protests. Dante Pérez, popular mayor of Gimenells (Lleida), a municipality with just over 1,000 inhabitants, announced his departure from the Popular Party, accusing it, like Vox, of “criminalizing” the protests in Madrid against the amnesty. After accusing the PP of trying to “normalize” the relationship with nationalism, Pérez pointed out: “And the worst thing: if the people that the PSOE is leading into a dictatorship decide to rebel, they will be criminalized .”
Using different tactics, PP and Vox want to maintain tension on the streets, even if the protests get out of control. The popular parties have called for rallies in all provincial capitals this Sunday, while the ultras continue to call for people to march in front of the PSOE headquarters. The PP is angry with Vox because it believes that by encouraging the violent, it is helping the PSOE “divert the focus on the unrest at the protests” instead of continuing to talk about the pacts with the independents. “Vox is feedback to the PSOE,” complain the PP leaders. The partners disagree, but they stick to their alliance and their strategy of street agitation.
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