The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has avoided commenting in depth on FC Barcelona player Lamine Yamal displaying a Palestinian flag during the bus parade with which FC Barcelona celebrated winning the 2025/2026 League title.
"I am concerned with day-to-day worries, what an actor or a footballer does or says has little relevance to me," he stated at a press conference in Níjar (Almería), where he was specifically asked about this episode.
In contrast, the deputy secretary of Regional and Municipal Policy and Electoral Analysis of the Popular Party, Elías Bendodo, has criticized the gesture and has stressed that "I cannot be in favor" because "sport should not be mixed with other issues."
From the En Comú space, co-spokesperson Aina Vidal has expressed the "great pride" she felt as a Barça follower at the action of the young player. It was about time that role models appeared, in this case in the field of football, who would champion solidarity and love for a people that is being murdered," she assured.