“We ran for office to make legal what they tell us today is illegal.” This is how Santiago Abascal responded this Saturday to the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who on Friday described as illegal the national priority defended by the Vox candidate for the presidency of the Government. The far-right leader has vindicated in a campaign event held in Almería the principle that his formation defends. He has insisted that it is “a national priority program that unites all Spaniards.” “Who in their right mind takes from their own to give to those outside?” he stated.
Abascal's words come after Feijóo assured on Friday in his interview on The Wild Project podcast that, “at this moment,” requiring nationality as the “only requirement” to access social assistance is “illegal.” “Priorities have to be objective and legal,” said the popular one when asked about the concept of national priority. The leader of Vox has not hesitated to enter into the matter: "Why are we running for election? Well, to make legal what they tell us today is illegal." Thus, he has defended that Spaniards should have “priority in access to social aid, rental aid and daycare places.”
However, the ultra-conservative leader has taken advantage of his intervention at the campaign event to send a message to "the Spaniards who do not believe in national priority or who do not believe in remigration", another of the principles defended by his program, in which he proposes expelling from the country those who are "receiving social benefits without working", "criminals" and "illegals". Ironically, he has invited those who reject his proposals to vote for the PP. “I want those Spaniards to have a choice,” he said, so that they are not “forced” to vote for the “mafia.”
Abascal has asked his people to participate en masse in the general elections on November 29. He has also insisted that this is not the time to believe in electoral polls. "The polls tell us that [Pedro Sánchez's] are leaving. But (...) there is no worse enemy than trust," he stressed. In this sense, the Vox leader has stressed that these elections are not “just another election.” “We risk everything and we can say without any fear of exaggeration that it is now or never,” he added.
In this same tone, he assured that the leader of the PSOE and acting president “is willing to do anything to stay in power.” As stated, Sánchez has brought forward the elections because he knows “what is coming.” And he recalled that this same week the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard appeared at the Ministry of Equality for an investigation by the European Prosecutor's Office into alleged irregularities in the contracts for anti-abuse bracelets and at the Court of Auditors for an investigation by the National Court on payments in Ferraz. At this point, he has assured that there are “an awful lot of PSOE accounts that are opaque” and has regretted that “every day that passes” something new is known. “That is the reason why they have brought forward the elections in a hurry,” he stressed and then described the socialists as a “lying mafia.”
