Vox president Santiago Abascal has, this Wednesday, launched into the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, in the wake of the general strike, arguing that the president of the Government “sends his mafia unions against workers and merchants.”
In a message shared on his X social media profile, Abascal has posted images of episodes of violence in some pickets and has questioned “how not to call [him] a dictator” of the president “if instead of protecting workers and merchants he sends them his mafia unions, with their pickets and their thugs.” “Spain has no reason to keep putting up with this violent mafia,” he has said.
The general strike, called by various trade union organizations in defense of the right to housing, the increase in wages, and the protection of public services, has ended with 40 detainees—13 of them by the Ertzaintza in the Basque Country—and 476 recorded incidents, according to Europa Press’s tally based on data from the Ministry of the Interior and the regional police forces.