• Politics Ayuso breaks with Vox for the 28-M campaign after four years as partners: "They will not drag me in their drift"
  • PP Feijóo charges against the "simulacrum" of Vox's motion of censure: "It is an improper and unproductive show"

Vox and the Popular Party left Congress on Wednesday at noon with the feeling that the passage of Ramón Tamames through the Lower House had not affected the relationship between the two parties. But both knew the delicacy of the moment and that, with the electoral campaign already underway, any spark could blow the bridges through the air. The decision of Isabel Díaz Ayuso to break with Vox, endorsed by Genoa, shakes the connection between both forces and opens a new stage that already affects the national level and that, without a doubt, will condition the race to the polls that began on Tuesday with the failed motion of censure against Pedro Sánchez.

Yesterday, Vox remained silent before a turn that caught by surprise in the headquarters of the party, where reprisals are already being prepared against the popular maneuver that will influence the remaining weeks until 28-M: Díaz Ayuso, in the last Plenary Session of the Regional Assembly of this legislature, evidenced his fracture with Vox to avoid being "dragged", He said, because of the "drift" that has characterized the day-to-day of the three-letter party for months. Minutes later, Alberto Núñez Feijóo seconded the Madrid president, supported her and charged against Vox, a party that, he said, seeks to squeeze with its offensive against the popular "some electoral revenue of anti-politics", also remembering what happened in Congress.

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Not bad for just one week

  • Writing: RAFA LATORRE

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Today Santiago Abascal will respond to both: the leader of Vox will take advantage of one of his best places to announce the consequences of the sudden swing that Vox considers that the Popular Party has executed. He will do it in Valladolid, electoral strength of the formation, and accompanied by the main public office that Vox has, the vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Juan García-Gallardo.

Party sources advance that Abascal will value the management of the regional vice president as proof that Vox "fulfills what it promises" and is a faithful and reliable executive partner. "It will be a review of all our government action", coinciding with the first anniversary of, so far, the only case in which the PP has agreed with Vox its entry into a regional government coalition, and Vox has always put it as an example of the combination that those of Abascal would be willing to replicate at the national level in order to prevent a new left-wing Executive.

Is the government of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco in danger? The sources consulted dismiss it under the argument that what happens in the Community of Madrid is one thing, and in Castilla y León another. "Independent governments" with situations that are not comparable, they summarize. In any case, it will be Abascal himself who personally "analyzes" at what point the "new relationship" with the party he leads with the leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who yesterday harshly charged after several days of silence against the "simulacrum of motion of censure" held this week in the Congress of Deputies.

"Improper spectacle"

"I don't share this way of doing politics. That is why I have abstracted myself from that grotesque and I have dedicated myself to reinforcing the alternative, the only one, which is to rebuild the international image of Spain and make the politics that our country deserves, "Feijóo launched yesterday from Brussels, where he called the Tamames motion designed by Vox an "improper and unproductive spectacle", typical of a "populist" formation.

Some forceful statements that will also have today the response of Abascal from the Valladolid Trade Fair, where he will foreseeably disfigure the approach of the PP to the socialist ideological lines, as Vox has been denouncing in recent days. "Their strategy is to go frontally against us," allege voices from the popular leadership, which point out that the attitude demonstrated in recent times by Vox "is not consistent with its electorate", which surely does not seek to wear down the main opposition party as a priority objective, and less at the gates of so many electoral appointments.

A roadmap that the PP observes both at the national level, with an impossible motion of censure aimed at putting Feijóo on the ropes, and at the regional level in Madrid, where the divergences between those of Ayuso and those of Rocío Monasterio have sharpened in recent months, especially since Vox knocked down the regional budgets in December.

In any case, and despite the fact that yesterday Feijóo said he "understands and shares" Ayuso's rejection of Vox in the Assembly, the party says it has a "cordial relationship" with the third formation with the most representation in Congress, despite the fact that the "differences" between the two are increasingly "deep" and evident. No one dares to rule out post-electoral pacts in certain places, but today, all the sources consulted agree, this scenario is far away.

There are still more than two months left for the passage through the polls, so the positions can still change a lot. In any case, the PSOE loses every day a little more its argument that the right-wing bloc is homogeneous. The PP already sought the unmarking of Vox with its abstention, despite considering that there were numerous reasons to overthrow the coalition Executive. With the crosses of statements yesterday and, above all, today, everything seems to indicate that the distance between the popular and those of Santiago Abascal will widen a little more and that the meeting points are becoming fewer.

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