Santiago Abascal has challenged the validity of the confinement and the state of alarm by announcing the call for car demonstrations against Pedro Sánchez through the streets of the center of the main cities, carrying flags of Spain. At the same time, the Vox leader has also threatened to file a motion of no confidence.

In his speech in the plenary session of Congress that will extend the state of alarm for another 15 days, Abascal has challenged the Executive to ban these street protests. Something that, in his opinion, would show that the rights of assembly and demonstration have been suspended in an "abusive" application of the state of alarm. Vox considers that this is actually a "covert state of emergency" that is violating the law, as it has repeated today and for which it has filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court.

Abascal has not yet revealed the date of the demonstration, but he has warned that tomorrow he will notify his call in the government delegations, which are the ones that have to authorize its celebration.

As he explained, making the protests by car is not dangerous because it guarantees that they take place in sanitary "safe" and, in his opinion, also "absolutely legal" conditions. "Are they going to prevent it?", He challenged Sánchez and the Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska .

"Say they have banned the rights of assembly and demonstration and say that their only fear is the people and that they only want to protect themselves from the Spanish," Abascal insisted on his challenge. In this sense, he has reproached the Government for taking all citizens as "hostages" and for trying to "blackmail" Congress to prolong the state of alarm and renew a power that he has accused Sánchez of "abusing".

A motion of censure for abandonment of the PP

On the other hand, Abascal has also threatened to present a motion of censure to dismiss Sánchez because he believes that he will not resign, as Vox demands. It is the first time that this possibility has been raised in parliamentary headquarters after unsuccessfully demanding for weeks the configuration of a national emergency government led by technicians and ex-politicians and supported parliamentarily by PSOE, PP and Vox.

"I do not rule out that a motion of censure is necessary, if only for Spaniards to know with names and surnames who are the deputies who want the maintenance and continuity of this dilapidated government that is abusing power," he assured. "The responsibility belongs to the first opposition party," he said, referring to the PP, "but if they delegate it, other groups may have to exercise it," he stressed.

Abascal has been disappointed with the vote in favor of Ciudadanos and the abstention of the PP. "I'm sorry," he has said to each of them. "With this president and vice president, neither lives nor jobs are saved. The only thing he does is a change of government."

For the rest, Abascal has made a fierce speech against Sánchez and the management of the crisis, "the worst in the world", and has settled accounts with the second vice president, Pablo Iglesias, in response to the "attacks" by the leader of Unidas Podemos Vox last week, in which he called them "parasites".

He has reproached him for his "threats" and for acting with a "Bolivarian bullying and checkers" driven by "pathological obsessions" of communism. In this sense, he has expressly held him responsible for the deaths in the nursing homes, once he assumed that task after the state of alarm.

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