The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has reiterated that the general strike called for November 11 should not be "legal" and has strongly attacked the unions, which he has described as "the enemies of the people" for not having promoted a similar protest during the eight years of Pedro Sánchez's time in office. "It seems like an insult to the Spanish," he has ruled.
In an interview on "Cadena Cope", collected by Europa Press, Abascal denounced that in Sánchez's two terms "the material conditions of the Spanish have worsened drastically," with wages "incompatible with access to housing" and, as he has pointed out, preventing many families from making ends meet.
The leader of Vox has focused his reproaches on Comisiones Obreras and UGT because, in his view, "they act only in the service of Pedro Sánchez" and "they only aspire to public subsidy." "They are not defending workers and they come to provide a service against the opposition after having stayed silent with the Government," Abascal insisted, who believes that the two main unions are "the enemies of workers."
Abascal emphasized that he wants the general strike to have "very little backing" and has called for the pickets not to resort to "coercion and violence against the Spanish who want to work," while also recognizing the right of those who decide to join the strike because "we are in a democracy and they are free to do so."
"But they should not coerce people who want to work, which is the most serious thing about this kind of approach. It is a political strike and I think, in fact, it is a strike that should not be legal," he concluded.