Pedro Sánchez signs a cordon against Santiago Abascal to pressure Pablo Casado

• Vox.Abascal offers to call elections before the end of the year if his motion of censure is successful

• Government.Pedro Sánchez asks Pablo Casado to vote 'no' and disassociate himself from "the extreme right"

• Politics.The PP charges against the "useless and false" motion of Vox and denounces the "attacks on the EU" by Santiago Abascal

Santiago Abascal and Pedro Sánchez slaughtered.

The first, supported only by its 52 deputies;

the second, surrounded by a wall of disparate forces, many of them declared enemies of a common national project.

And in the center, as a scapegoat, the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado.

The debate on Vox's motion of censure against the coalition government served little more than to demonstrate in all its harshness the climate of foreboding and tension, the level of demagoguery, the art of twisting past and present reality that they shamelessly wield. political forces.

And all while the country, beyond the Palacio de la Carrera de San Jerónimo, lives harassed by Covid-19 and gripped by a rampant social and economic crisis.

Vox opened the session with a harsh speech from the deputy

, future candidate of the radical right-wing formation in the Catalan elections.

A

ruthless and hyperbolic

Pedro Sánchez and his partners, against their management of the pandemic, against their economic policy, against its ups and downs, against its historical memory and against its changing principles based on self-interest.

Vox versus 'the partners'

A speech finished off with the intervention of Santiago Abascal, a failed candidate to snatch the presidency of the Government from Sánchez.

An intervention full of reproaches and thick accusations: a "criminal, mafia and totalitarian" government that leads the country to "ruin", "misery" and "death".

And all this, he said, in the company of "coup plotters" and "heirs of murderers."

An amalgam of partners that, however, showed their unity against a "fascist" adversary by signing a manifesto in which they declared their opposition to the "extreme right".

A paper signed by the PSOE, United We Can, the two parties that support the Government, plus the CUP, BNG, Compromís, ERC, PNV, JxCAT, Más País and EH Bildu.

An imitation of they will not pass with which it was intended to demonstrate the sanitary cordon that the coalition government and its various investiture allies are determined to tend around Vox and with which, incidentally, they try to surround the PP, a party to which Pedro Sánchez assimilated repeatedly with the "extreme right".

In fact, the Prime Minister pointed out the opposition leader, Pablo Casado, repeatedly, urging him to break any ties with Abascal and with his "hate", "Francoist", "xenophobic", "macho" and "exclusive" speech. .

Abascal de Bildu's response

In the manifesto, the signatories expressed their "commitment to human rights, democracy, social justice and equality."

And they put Vox and PP in the same bag - "extreme right and extreme right", they said, calling them "incompatible with the values ​​of a democratic system and a danger to coexistence."

These statements, signed by Bildu and the independentistas, unleashed the indignation not only from Vox, but also from the PP and Ciudadanos.

Words that prompted Abascal to give reply to the spokesman

with the reading of the names of hundreds of people

killed by ETA and remind the representative of JxCAT the years spent sheltering "Pujol SA" and resulted in " coup d'état of 1-O ".

The session proceeded in a whirlwind of crossed accusations, qualifying as a fat brush in black and white.

Without nuances.

Without reflection and without political depth.

From criticism of the clothing of some, the smell of others, passing through the easy division between those above and below, between patriots and haters, between democrats and fascists, between strong and weak.

A real quagmire in which the groups splashed the King, the Pope,

, Franco, Pujol,

, the "Chinese virus" and

.

A fierce speech

Abascal went up to the speaker's rostrum with a loaded carbine, ready to confront Sánchez and everyone else.

In Vox they assured that he had nothing to lose because his failure was discounted beforehand;

that his intention was to demonstrate all the "pernicious" that hides behind the Sánchez-Iglesias tandem, the visible heads of an "illegitimate" and "fraudulent" government, which La Moncloa occupied riding on "the lie."

Thus, with these wickers, he threaded a fierce speech that, however, was not that of a motion of censure.

The Spanish Constitution establishes that the motions of censure must include an alternative candidate for the presidency and that he, in addition, explain to the Chamber the government program that he would develop in case of victory.

And the leader of Vox did not deploy this program, beyond a dozen generic and disconnected proposals, among which three stood out that are already classics in his party's argument: the immediate expulsion of all "illegal" immigrants;

the abolition of all subsidies to parties, unions and business organizations and the elimination of political bodies, read, autonomous communities.

The lack of a detailed program was justified by the fact that Abascal does not intend with his motion to settle in La Moncloa.

In fact, as he himself explained, his intention, should the motion succeed, would be to form a "very small" Executive whose task would be to arrange the machinery for Spaniards to go to the polls "before the end of year".

Arrimadas' response

The claim of the leader of Vox found a fulfilled answer in the words of the head of ranks of Ciudadanos.

Inés Arrimadas was right when from the rostrum she stated: "Indignation is not a political project" and as an alternative to the Sánchez government it is useless to "long for the dictatorship, praise protectionism or treat everyone as traitors."

The debate on the fifth motion of censure of democracy will be salted this Thursday with a failure and a panorama of tension more bitter than that of this Wednesday.

While waiting for the speech delivered by the leader of the Popular Party, and which in their ranks anticipate as "tough but sensible", the resulting picture of the session will show a government tied to secessionists and

, which already anticipates the signing of the agreements and assignments that are yet to come and that the legislature will hold.

In front, a divided right, undermined by the power struggle to lead the opposition, without a common thread or clear project.

And on the banks, the smallest forces that reject the enlistment in bands and that cry out in the desert.

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