The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has lashed out at the intervention of the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the interview broadcast on Thursday on the TVE program 'La Revuelta', describing his behavior as "lamentable" and criticizing that he "acted friendly" and "made little jokes" as if "he had not lied, betrayed, and, his entire entourage, stolen."
"Yesterday we had him on television, playing a lamentable role, acting friendly, as if he had not lied, betrayed, and, his entire entourage, stolen from the Spaniards and corrupted in an absolutely disgusting way," Abascal reproached during a rally held in Mahón (Menorca), where he insisted that the attitude of the head of the Executive is unacceptable.
The Vox leader maintains that "making bad taste jokes is not useful" to the citizens, who, in his opinion, "have not been in the mood for jokes for a long time," and has accused Sánchez of trying to trivialize serious issues through humor at a delicate political moment.
Criticism over the case of Zapatero's jewels
In his intervention, Abascal focused on a specific passage of the interview, when the host of the show, David Broncano, asked the president about the jewels valued at over a million euros found in the office of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Sánchez responded that presidents, at times, are unaware of the value or details of the gifts they receive.
In response, the leader of Vox retorted that "Zapatero certainly found out, because he stole it from the State Heritage and took it to a safe at the PSOE headquarters, whose general secretary is Pedro Sánchez," directly pointing to the current president of the Government. "Stop deceiving people, stop scamming and put yourself at the judicial disposal, which is what you should have done a long time ago," Abascal demanded.
In parallel, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office indicated this Friday the possible existence of a crime of embezzlement by the former president for keeping those jewels. From Vox they maintain that Zapatero "must be neck-deep in filth for the Prosecutor's Office --which depends on him, he jokes-- to have no choice but to go after him," according to what the party has published on its account on the social network 'X'.
Denunciation of manipulation and axes of the Vox program
During the event, Abascal also denounced the "stigmatization" and the "manipulation" of his party's discourse, and emphasized that the protests recorded this week at his rallies in A Coruña and Avilés (Asturias), which ended in riots, police charges, arrests, and injuries, aim to silence Vox's message.
The president of the formation has reiterated the three main lines of his electoral program for the upcoming general elections: national priority, deregulation and tax cuts, and "remigration" of illegal immigrants and those legal immigrants who commit crimes or depend on public aid.
Within the framework of that national priority, Abascal has included the need to "recover Ceuta" and to expel from La Moncloa "the criminal organization that Sánchez leads." Finally, he urged his supporters to distrust the polls that predict a wide majority for PP and Vox and asked them to go to the polls on November 29.