Vox president Santiago Abascal has taken aim this Wednesday at the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, in the wake of the general strike, and he has stated that the prime minister “sends his mafioso unions against workers and shopkeepers.”
In a message shared on his profile on the social network 'X', Abascal has posted images of episodes of violence in the pickets and has questioned “how not to call [him] a dictator” of the president “if instead of protecting workers and shopkeepers, he sends them his mafioso unions, with their pickets and their thugs.” “Spain has no reason to keep putting up with this violent mafia,” he concluded.
The general strike, called by different union organizations in defense of the right to housing, the increase in wages and the protection of public services, has resulted in 40 detainees —13 of them arrested by the Ertzaintza in the Basque Country— and 476 incidents, according to Europa Press’s tally based on data from the Ministry of the Interior and the regional police forces.