Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, Vox has categorically rejected the territorial invasion perpetrated by Russia. However, its international alliances with leaders sympathetic to Vladimir Putin, such as the Hungarian Viktor Orbán or the French Marine Le Pen, call into question Vox’s support for the government of Volodimir Zelensky.
This Friday, in an interview with Cadena Cope, Abascal affirmed that his party had been very clear since the beginning of “Russian aggression” and recalled a summit held in Madrid shortly before the military offensive in which they were managed to agree on a text indicating A Russia that brought together leaders as disparate as Orbán and former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
“Now,” Abascal clarified immediately afterwards. “Obviously concerns need to be raised at this time.” The leader of Vox thus acknowledged his fears about the future of the situation, without however going into details: “It is not that Ukraine does not have reasons, which is why there are no reasons, it’s a Third World War.”
In this sense, he avoided giving more details and recalled that he is not an “expert in geopolitics”, although he expressed doubts about the authorization of Western countries like the United States or the United Kingdom to Ukraine for the use of long-range missiles on Russian soil.
“If Western NATO weapons attack Russian soil, Russia’s response is very clear and we don’t know what will happen. What we want is for this to stop as quickly as possible,” he concluded.
Vox shares a group in the European Parliament with groups close to Vladimir Putin such as Orbán’s Hungary or the French National Regroupment led by Marine Le Pen. She established this alliance after the elections last June, abandoning the alliance she had until then with partners like the Italian Giorgia Meloni.
Last weekend, Santiago Abascal was elected president of the Patriotes group, during an assembly held in Paris. It is this influence that the leader of Vox claims to have used, with his partners, to reject the election of Teresa Ribera as vice-president of the future European Commission.
Regarding his position, he stressed that the Spanish People’s Party “has not succeeded” in convincing the rest of the European popular family. “They have no influence with the European People’s Party,” he lamented, accusing the People’s Party of making “excessive noise” by trying to “confuse” the Spaniards, because he believes that Ribera will ultimately be elected and that “nothing will happen”: “The PSOE and the PP will continue together in Brussels.
“Rose nostra”
Abascal considers that there is no room for this alliance or any other with the PSOE, especially after the declaration this Thursday before the judge of Commissioner Víctor de Aldama, which implicated Sánchez himself and several government members in the plot of the Koldo Affair.
Vox announced that it would therefore request the indictment of the president of the government and four of his ministers. “We are facing the ‘rosa nostra'”, he denounced, associating the PSOE with the Sicilian mafia. Abascal believes that the party and Sánchez are “ready for anything” and that is why there must be an “infinite distance” with the government and an “implacable opposition” to each of its initiatives.
In addition, he asked that the Spaniards not be “misled” into believing that certain parliamentary partners of the Executive can bring down Sánchez. He recalled that he himself had presented two motions of censure during the previous legislature and that is why he cannot oppose this mechanism – which Alberto Núñez Feijóo said he was ready to lead if the One of Sánchez’s partners was willing to change his mind – but he insisted that Spaniards should not be “confused about the possibility that separatist parties could support a motion of this type.”
“Possibilities” with Trump
All this is happening shortly after the victory in the United States of Donald Trump, also an ally of Vox. Abascal was optimistic about the new mandate, in which he predicted that Trump would fight “to defend his national interests and his own industry.” “What we would like to do with our products,” he recognized, denouncing that the Spanish market is “invaded” by products from Morocco and other countries “where they are not produced in equal conditions and cause in many cases health problems. “”.
At the same time, despite the “risks” that this may pose for the economy, he celebrated that the next president of the United States “will fight for freedom and against woke ideology”, which for Vox is “a reason to ‘hope “. and “It opens up many possibilities.”
