“Pedro Sánchez is a man without principles: he can flout the law and endanger national unity. There will be a certain moment when people will want to hang him by his feet,” said Santiago Abascal, leader of the Spanish far-right party Vox, in an interview with the Argentine newspaper Clarin. Shocking sentences that he uttered during his stay in Buenos Aires at the inauguration ceremony of his great friend and ally Javier Milei triggered a political earthquake in Spain. Such a reference to “Piazzale Loreto” immediately triggers a reaction from the PSOE, which not only stigmatizes these words but also calls on the PP to do the same.
According to María Jesús Montero, Vice President and Minister of Finance, these are “unworthy” phrases. “We are faced with serious incitement to hatred and are at risk of reaching something irreparable. Does the PP have nothing to say? Isn't all this enough to put an end to the local governments that support together?” Pilar Alegría, Speaker and Minister of Education, comments on the same point: “The leader of the PP, Alberto Nunez Feijóo, cannot pretend that nothing is happening happened. We await his conviction without excuses. Silence is complicity.” As for the popular ones, their motto is: Minimize. They therefore criticize the PSOE's attempt to “play victim” and “grossly involve the PP in a deliberately exaggerated controversy”. At the same time, however, they distance themselves from Vox and make it clear that they “do not agree” with Abascal’s words, which, in their opinion, “give Sánchez media strength.”
In short, a back and forth that makes it clear that here in Spain we have also energetically entered into the climate of “all against all” election campaign with a view to the European elections next spring. It is no coincidence that Abascal met Bolsonaro's son in Buenos Aires, but above all Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, to develop the common strategy of European sovereigntists. “The winds of change are blowing loudly in Europe, Viva Vox,” Orban wrote on social media after seeing Abascal.
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