• Politics The PP modulates its discourse against Vox waiting for the reprisals of Abascal: "We neither break nor marry"
  • Madrid Ayuso breaks with Vox for the 28-M campaign after four years as partners: "They will not drag me in their drift"

Two months before the polls, the relationship between the Popular Party and Vox is seriously damaged, but not broken. Wounded, but still alive. The failed motion of censure and the rupture between Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Rocío Monasterio have led to a delicate point the harmony between both forces, which share government in the Junta de Castilla y León and that, according to most polls, will need to be understood in as many territories and municipalities after 28-M if they do not want to deliver them to the left. The electoral campaign, in any case, threatens to become a dialectical and program war between two formations that define themselves as the real alternative to the Government of Pedro Sánchez.

The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, ruled out on Friday that his party will break the Executive that it shares in Castilla y León with the PP, but predicted that Genoa "will leave alone" Alfonso Fernández Mañueco soon for being the "ugly duckling" that agreed with Vox. "It is an example," said the president of Vox about the popular regional leader, whom he defended after his controversy over the comb he made this week to a socialist deputy: "Little seems to me for the insults we receive from the left."

Abascal, in an act in Valladolid in which he defended the action of the Government of the regional vice president, Juan García-Gallardo, wondered "who commands in the PP" after the president of the Community of Madrid returned to dictate the roadmap of the party before a leader, Feijóo, who is the one who has "self-proclaimed" as head of the opposition "without standing for election or making a single proposal".

Therefore, he urged Feijóo that, if he governs, not only make right-wing policies, but repeal everything approved by Sánchez as real proof that he does not have "the hand constantly extended" to the left: "They just want the elections to come and make a replacement. They have coined that the important thing is to throw Sánchez out. No: the important thing is to load all of Sánchez's policies."

In addition, he compared Ayuso with Pablo Casado, who used a phrase similar to that used by the popular leader to, in the 2020 motion, break relations with Vox: "What difference is there between them if they then do the same?"

"Anti-politics"

Abascal's message comes just 24 hours after the shock by the PP, which called Vox's strategy "anti-political", the "grotesque" of the motion of censure "populist", according to Feijóo, and broke all the bridges that united them with those of Monasterio in the Assembly of Madrid, as Ayuso proclaimed, that he considered "better" that "each one follows his path" because he will not allow Vox to "drag" the PP to his "drift".

Some words that, in any case, and waiting to know the response of Abascal this Friday, were modulated throughout the day: "We do not break or marry anyone," said the number three of the PP, Elías Bendodo, who said in any case to support Ayuso's decision. The regional president, for her part, said that for her "anti-politics" is what Pedro Sánchez does in La Moncloa and not Vox's roadmap, as Feijóo suggested.

There remains, therefore, the question of how both formations are going to behave in a hypothetical post-electoral scenario in which they need each other to govern in certain points of the national geography. From Vox they remember, in this sense, two issues to take into account: that thanks to those of Rocío Monasterio, the popular managed to approve this legislature in the Assembly of Madrid exactly 29 laws, and that Santiago Abascal already announced a month ago in Zaragoza that Vox would not support Ayuso's proposal on tax benefits to foreigners.

Therefore, the rupture announced this Thursday in the last plenary session of the regional parliament by the president of the Community, they believe, is nothing more than an electoral maneuver to seek to differentiate themselves and stand out at a time when the popular must justify why they did not support Vox censorship of the current Government. In the PP they defend the opposite: that they maintain their own line, that nobody dictates their decisions and that, in any case, the abstention in the motion and now the fracture with Vox not only show that they are the true opposition, but that the thesis of the PSOE about the right walking united towards the polls is false.

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  • Santiago Abascal Conde
  • Pablo Casado
  • Community of Madrid
  • Valladolid
  • Alfonso Fernández Mañueco
  • Castile and Leon
  • Isabel Diaz Ayuso