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Vox's response to the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union on Oriol Junqueras was most belligerent. To the point that he brought out the most Eurosceptic side of the formation, with its leaders denouncing "a very serious attack" on the "sovereignty" and "the Constitution" of Spain and, in parallel, with supporters picking up that glove and posing a possible exit from the European Union, making a pun in English with the term Spexit , to the mirror of the one used in the United Kingdom with Brexit.

Although Vox does not reach - at least yet - to this point of raising doubts about the permanence in the European Union, it did use the sentence to disqualify the judicial decisions that are holding back or questioning the work of the Spanish courts in the proceedings against the independence leaders. And present those failures as an interference and an absolute affront of "foreign institutions" in what is Spain.

For this he used very hard terms when assessing the ruling on Junqueras: an "attack" on Spain, a "claim to submit the sovereignty of States" to Brussels or "a lack of loyalty."

"The only thing to respect here is the sovereignty of Spain, which belongs to all Spaniards and cannot be questioned from dark offices in Brussels or in infamous negotiations between the Government of Sanchez and the declared enemies of the nation," Santiago said. Abascal, in a clear delegitimization of Europe to enter into this matter.

The president of Vox blamed the European court for giving "oxygen and support to the coup process in Catalonia" and reproached that several allied countries, such as Belgium, "question and humiliate" the Spanish Justice in processes such as the delivery of Carles Puigdemont to Spain .

"A great national mobilization"

Abascal strongly stirred up that supposed lack of legitimacy of Europe and charged against what he described as "eurosumisos". In addition, he threatened the convening of "a great national mobilization against this attack" on "Spanish sovereignty" and "Constitution" and in defense of "the unity of the nation."

The failure and the threat of a possible immunity of Puigdemont opens for Vox the debate on what the European Union has to be. Those of Abascal have always put a brake on the transfer of more powers in economic or legislative matters and propose the Union as a common market, with free movement but with limits.

This was expressed on Thursday by the leader of the European Vox delegation, Jorge Buxadé , recalling that his proposal is "that Europe be again a community of free nations that cooperate voluntarily". "We reject the popular and socialist model that delivers our judicial and electoral sovereignty" to community institutions.

Another MEP, Hermann Tertsch , gave the Spexit wings. "Think about it, those who refuse to stop this permanent renunciation of sovereignty. Either the EU is changed or it sinks," he said, accompanying his message with an image with the motto of Spexit .

On the other hand, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros said that Europe "would not dare" to such a decision against Germany and warned that there are "European people and institutions" to whom "a weaker Spain suits them." Hard words that victimize Spain against Brussels.

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