The Vox (extreme right) candidate for the presidency of the Spanish government, Santiago Abascal, described Sunday’s election results as “very bad news for many Spaniards”, pointing to the “manipulated” polls that led to the demobilization.
The conservatives of the Popular Party (PP), led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, won the legislative elections on Sunday in Spain, but without achieving an absolute majority with Vox, according to the provisional results released by the Government.
In his speech after the announcement of the results, Abascal congratulated Feijóo, at the same time that he blamed him for the result of the Socialists, who reinforced their vote.
“Feijóo won the elections as he wanted. And he did it by not depending on Vox as he also wanted. We imagine, therefore, that he will maintain the offer “to the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) to govern.
“That offer that the Socialist Party made throughout the campaign and that is behind the laundering of the four years of the Pedro Sánchez government,” continued Abascal.
Today’s results, he added, “are very bad news for many Spaniards”, because even if the PSOE leader lost the elections, “he could block an investiture and, worse still, Pedro Sánchez could be invested even with the support of communism, coup separatism and terrorism”.
And, he added, “now with more capacity for blackmail than in the previous legislature.”
When justifying the results of Vox, he accused the polls of having been manipulated.
“We were there throughout the campaign to warn of the danger of clearly manipulated polls,” he accused, noting that “they led some to sell the bear’s skin before hunting it.”
The consequence was “clear”, that is, “demobilization”, he pointed out.
The president of Vox also asserted that he is prepared to exercise the opposition and also for the repetition of the elections.
The PP, with 136 deputies, and Vox, with 33, only managed to add 169 deputies to parliament, leaving seven of the 176 necessary for an absolute majority.
The PSOE, with 122 deputies, and Somar, with 31, total 153 seats in parliament and may have more deputies than the right with the allies of the last legislature.
According to the provisional results, the PP had 32.96%, compared to 31.73% of the Socialists of the PSOE, currently in power Pedro Sánchez.
Vox remained the third political force, but lost 19 deputies compared to 2019, remaining with 33 (12.39%).
Somar, which is a member of far-left parties that were part of United We Can, elected 31 deputies with 12.30% of the votes counted.
Source: TSF
