The Minister of Finance, Arcadi España, has stated that "a new party has been born today" after the agreement closed this Monday between the Popular Party and Vox to present themselves jointly to the Senate, emphasizing that supporting that coalition implies "always voting for the far right." "Today they have decided to get married," he has ironized.
"Before it seemed that they were exchanging glances, that they were saying things to agree, that they were meeting from time to time, but today they have decided to get married. A new party has been born today, which is the Popular Party and Vox, and it doesn't matter who you vote for, because you are always going to vote for the far right," Arcadi declared this Monday during an interview on "La noche en 24 horas" of "TVE," as reported by Europa Press.
The minister has spoken out after the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, have sealed an agreement in the Upper House that covers 23 constituencies with the intention of obtaining a broad majority to counteract the joint candidacy promoted by PSOE, Frente Amplio, and territorial leftist forces in the Senate on October 16. In that framework, Vox renounces to run in six provinces and the PP will do the same in another three.
In light of this scenario, Arcadi España has defended that "it is not the same" to reach agreements with progressive formations that "do not question acquired rights" and that "do not want to censor" than to do so with "a right-wing block" that, he said, poses "setbacks." "I do not remember any electoral campaign in our democracy where the program of the Popular Party and Vox is to tell us that we are going to live worse if they govern," he has pointed out.
He has insisted that "we do not insult but then we listen to others who severely insult the president of the Government; it is fear also against hope and optimism; and we are an optimistic party that trusts in its country and that believes that we have done well and that we can do better," he has defended, assuring that "the spirits are strong."
Condemnation of the disturbances in Barcelona
In relation to the incidents recorded last Saturday in Barcelona, the head of Finance has supported the statements of the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, calling them "pure vandalism" and rejecting "unreservedly" any type of "violence." "Justice has to act and that is what it is doing," he has emphasized.
In this context, he has attacked PP and Vox for, in his opinion, "using anything that happens to attack the Government," warning that with that attitude "they do a disservice to democracy." Likewise, he has reproached them for "destabilizing" and "casting doubt" on the electoral system by stating that "the vote by mail and the vote of the descendants of Spaniards living in other countries are not clear."
"We are a consolidated, firm, transparent democracy, one of the most advanced in Europe, and we have systems that work. What we do not have so advanced is the right and the far right, which have concerning ticks of the past," he lamented.