The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has taken advantage this Wednesday of the slogan "not all of us are equal," which the Government and the PSOE use to demand the resignation of Óscar Puente, to distance himself from the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez: "No, not all of us are equal; some of us do not have our hands stained with blood for the crimes of Urda, Adamuz, the dana and the blackout."
At a rally in the Plaza Mayor of Cuenca, Abascal criticized that Sánchez emphasizes that "not all are equal" after Puente’s resignation, who has explained his departure from the Executive by saying that he must assume political responsibilities for the train accident in Urda (Toledo), which has caused almost 70 deaths.
For Abascal, Sánchez’s defense is "unacceptable" and he has gone after the President of the Government. "Not all of us are equal: we don’t govern with ETA members, we don’t steal elections, we don’t alter the census, we don’t divide the Spanish people by the side they fought on, by the side their great-great-grandparents fought on one hundred years ago," he said.
"We do not propose the invasion of our lands, we don’t steal Ceuta, we don’t have our hands stained with blood for the crimes of Urda, Adamuz, the dana and the blackout," he insisted, stressing that, in his view, it is political decisions and "corruptions" that "are behind the deadly consequences" that Spaniards are suffering.
Abascal demands Sánchez’s resignation
"Not all of us are equal, Pedro, of course not," the Vox leader continued, who also stressed that his party "will not put Spaniards at the end of the line and they will not dedicate themselves to the little dances, the little jokes, and the intimate scenes in public." "We can’t compete with you or your criminal gang; we don’t have your wickedness or your lack of scruples," he added.
In this context, Abascal has called on Sánchez to step down. "He says that not all of us are equal because some resign and he does not resign, so he would have to resign," he maintains. Likewise, he has defended that he should not run as a candidate in the general elections of November 29 and that he would have to make himself available to the Justice system to be tried. "This doesn’t end with a resignation," he warned.
During the event, in which he has been accompanied by the lead candidate for Cuenca, Iván Vélez, president of the DENAES Foundation (Defense of the Spanish Nation), considered the seed of Vox, Abascal has emphasized that, "out of responsibility", he will not encourage citizens to travel by train, unlike what the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has done after the railway accident in Urda.
After the rally, Abascal is scheduled to return to Madrid to hold a personal meeting with the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, who returns to the capital to take part in the Ibero-American Summit.