The leader of Vox and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Santiago Abascal, has called for a massive turnout at the polls to bring back the "hope" of the citizens. "We have reasons for hope," he emphasized, recalling that in Spain there have been successes and mistakes, but that "this eight-year period has been a very dark period to which history will mete out punishment".
However, he has assured that "we are going to rise up after these eight years and we are going to return hope to young people who deserve a decent wage, a home, a future in Guadalajara and in Spain without having to emigrate and who have the right to be with their own." He said these words at a rally held at the Auditorio Pedro Díaz in Guadalajara, where, according to the Local Police, around 2,500 people had come.
Abascal has also pledged to regain the trust of older people, taking the opportunity to denounce the "propaganda against Vox" that he says claims that his party intends to eliminate pensions, something he has described as "dirty" and "disgusting".
"With our heads held high and looking people in the eye," the candidate has offered "a deep change" but "a calm change." He insisted that "we have not come here to break coexistence. We have come here to say things of common sense that the voters of most of the parties believe in."
The Vox leader has expressed his satisfaction that he has forced the PP to take on some of his proposals, such as national priority, in different autonomous community governments. "We have made use of the strength you have given us. If you had given us more strength, we could have done more," he admitted.
During the event, he asked the attendees to try to convince the "good" people in their circles who, for different reasons, do not intend to vote for Vox or are considering not going to the polls because they "think that everything is the same." "Ask that they give us an opportunity. I think that if you all manage to convince a few, the surprise of November 29 could be even better than what we would wish for."
At the same time, he has demanded of his followers that they not relax, warning that the result can also be “negative” if “we take victory for granted”. He has said that “this has already happened to us” and he has pointed out as the main risks “our worst enemy, the polls. Our worst enemy, demobilization. Our worst enemy, the traps and violence and whatever is going to occur to Sánchez in the coming days”.
Abascal has insisted that “there is no trick or violence that can take precedence over the gigantic mobilization that we are calling on you for on November 29”.
In his speech, he once again accused the Executive of being a “criminal mafia”. According to the leader of Vox, the “corruption” of Pedro Sánchez’s Government “ruins and kills” and “the migratory invasion that it promotes” causes “violence and kills Spaniards”.
To support his criticism, he has cited information from 'El Mundo' that states that “Adif sealed the bonus for its top brass hours before its president resigned”. In his view, “the money for the trains, the money for the tracks, the money that takes Spaniards from one place to another and that must ensure not only that they arrive, but that they arrive alive, was being spent on nieces, on bribes, on placements and on bonuses”.
He has questioned the meaning of these variable payments: “The bonus is what a company pays its executives when they meet their objectives. What was the objective of Adif’s top brass? To destroy high-speed rail, to kill more than 100 Spaniards? Or was it to enrich themselves and continue with that predatory party that is financially strangling Spaniards, making them pay more than ever in taxes and giving them worse services than ever throughout democracy?”.
Along these lines, he has asked: “Why doesn’t Pedro Sánchez resign when he sees that everyone he has put in place is taking the money in the middle of the massacre, in the middle of the dead?”.
Abascal has launched hard against the policies of Sánchez’s Executive and, among other things, has denounced that public healthcare is “overwhelmed”, that waiting lists are “absolutely unacceptable” and that “people die waiting for a medical appointment or waiting for a surgical procedure”.
He has emphasized that "we not only want a deep change and a calm change in Spain. Not only do we want to do politics over the next years to change course. We want to deliver justice so that the guilty parties and the leaders of this mafia sit down, every single one of them, in front of the courts and, after a fair trial, if the judges decide so, spend a great deal of time in prison."
Likewise, he has pointed out that "calling the government criminal mafia, talking about the president's psychopathy and his unbridled ambition who occupies Moncloa today," are expressions that he would prefer not to have to repeat "never again," because he would like to live in a "calm" country in which children and teenagers are not focused on politics.
Interventions by Maraver and Iván Sánchez
At the event, the Vox candidate for Congress and current national deputy, Ángel López Maraver, also took the floor, who began by thanking the public for its support and the work of party members and volunteers, to whom he attributed the momentum of the formation.
The deputy defended the importance of recovering security in neighborhoods and towns and of ensuring that families can live calmly. "Spain already needs a real change," he said, before referring to a "captain" capable of straightening out the country's course, which he described as "a true friend," in reference to Abascal.
Maraver has turned to various testimonies to question the management of the Government of Pedro Sánchez during his term on matters such as security, the pandemic, or the invasion of Ceuta. He also focused part of his speech on the rural setting and on the tragedy of the Dana in Valencia, which he linked to the absence of adequate hydraulic infrastructures.
In addition, he criticized the Executive's climate policy and the Agenda 2030, and he recalled the victims of the train accident in Adamuz, reproaching the way in which the resources intended for the railway have been administered.
Lastly, the provincial president of Vox in Guadalajara, Iván Sánchez, delivered a brief speech in which he thanked the presence of the party's supporters and the effort of volunteers, city councilors, and coordinators. "Wherever you go, people want more Vox," he said, encouraging people to vote in large numbers next day 29 so that "common sense comes in."