The leader of Vox and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Santiago Abascal, has stated this Monday that the main chauvinists of Spanish origin are in the PSOE, that it will expel those he considers imported if he reaches La Moncloa, and that gays will end up supporting his formation by considering it the only one that protects them from homophobia coming from abroad.
Abascal made these statements in an interview on Cadena Cope, broadcast by Europa Press, after the journalist asked him whether homosexuals should fear him or, on the contrary, whether chauvinists have reasons to thank him for something.
To that question, he replied emphatically that chauvinists have nothing to thank him for because he is going to “get” imported chauvinists out of Spain “by the fast track.” “That is the great chauvinism there is in Spain,” he proclaimed, specifying that he is referring to chauvinism linked to massive immigration, fundamentalism, and “those who have brought to Spain practices that were unknown, such as genital mutilation, forced marriages, which there are already some cases in Catalonia and are growing data.”
Regarding the so-called “national chauvinists,” he pointed out that, in his view, most of them are members of or are in the PSOE.
With respect to the homosexual group, he indicated that he has “no doubts” that “they are going to end up voting for all of them,” for him, for Vox, just as, as he said, happens in France with the Frente Nacional because, he emphasized, “it is the party that has the most support among homosexuals because it is the one that defends them from the real homophobia, which is the one that arrives, the imported one.”
After that, Abascal wanted to clarify that Vox recognizes the “dignity of all people” regardless of whether they are men, “women,” nationals or immigrants, heterosexuals or homosexuals.
He added that he has friends with very diverse profiles and that he does not classify them according to whether they are nationals or foreigners, men or women, and he showed himself convinced that homosexuals are often “held hostage by a lobby that wants to interpret them only based on sexuality.”
“I have my sexuality, but I think I am much more than my sexuality. I am a father, I am a husband, I am a politician, I am Basque. My identity is formed in many ways. There are people who have a lot of interest in making others believe that homosexuals only have that in their lives,” he added.
In Abascal's judgment, homosexuals are "people as rich as everyone else and have no problems at all" with Vox, although he considers that there is a "propaganda war" against his party that, as he has said, they must face.