The DANA tragedy that has devastated the Valencian Community, leaving more than 200 dead, has served as a perfect excuse for Vox to distance itself from the other parties, to once again launch itself against the central Government and to seek a new confrontation with the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom the far-right party has long accused of being “complicit” with the PSOE and of not acting “as a true opposition.” In short, he has taken advantage of the tragedy to try to seek political gain from the catastrophe.
The party led by Santiago Abascal decided not to participate in the meetings that the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, is holding with all the parties. Nor does she attend those called by the mayor at the Valencia City Council, where they continue to co-govern with the PP despite having broken the pacts with them in all the autonomies. There, the criticism of Mazón from Vox is lukewarm, although they have registered the request to open a “Commission of Investigation into the causes of the floods and consequences of the management of the cold drop.” If the initiative – which competes with another previously presented by Compromís – is successful, those from Vox will request “the appearance of representatives of the Public Administrations and the Consell, as well as experts on the subject” in order to “finally issue an opinion.” but without demanding any political responsibility while continuing to point out the central government as the main culprit.
Despite knowing that the management of the catastrophe, as established by law, is the responsibility of the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, Abascal has launched himself against the president of the Executive since the beginning of the crisis, attacking the “negligent and criminal ” action of his Government, and for not having declared the state of alarm, as Vox and PP ask him to do. As the days have passed, Abascal’s messages from Madrid have gotten louder. This same Wednesday, in an interview on the El Toro TV program ‘Dando cane’, he assured that he has said that Spain has a Government “of psychopaths and unscrupulous people”, ensuring that it has not attended to the Valencians “for political reasons.”
A few days ago, Abascal himself announced that he will file a complaint against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and other members of his cabinet for crimes of “reckless homicide” and “omission of the duty to provide assistance” after the DANA. In a statement recorded from the Vox headquarters, without journalists, Abascal made this announcement after meeting with his “work team” to analyze the consequences of the flood.
On Saturday, November 2, the leader of the extreme right issued a “message to the Nation” through his X channel. In his “institutional declaration”, without the possibility of questions from journalists, the leader of the extreme right already stated: “Sánchez is primarily responsible for not having activated all the resources of the State when lives could still be saved.” “In the face of one of the greatest catastrophes we have faced, in the face of so much evil and incompetence, and after the infamous appearance of the President of the Government, we cannot be silent.”
A few days later, the general secretary of Vox in Congress, José María Figaredo, accused the Government without any type of evidence of being “concealing” and “hiding” “hundreds of fatal victims” of the DANA and of refusing to “eject” a hand” to their families.
The far-right party has not stopped echoing hoaxes and false news, such as that Sánchez’s Government “has paralyzed for years the construction of infrastructure that would have prevented the tragedy”, or that “they rejected international aid as has been demonstrated in the French parliament, when there was still a chance to save lives.” Those, among many others. Abascal has not stopped accusing the President of the Government of “deserting from his duties”, of “not deploying the Army on time” and of “demonizing the volunteers who have given a historical example of what the nation can do.”
The national spokesperson for Vox, in his last appearance after Monday’s meeting of the Political Action Committee, insisted on blaming the central Executive for what happened in Valencia for “having paralyzed the cleaning of the channels and for having promoted the destruction of water infrastructure.” ”. In a further twist, Fúster reproached Sánchez for having “abandoned the Valencians from minute one” in the face of a tragedy that “has cost lives”, deaths that in his opinion could have been “avoided if action had been taken with the intention of saving them.” ”.
Ignore Alvise and his overexposure cleaning mud
The truth is that the DANA tragedy has given Abascal the opportunity not only to establish his own profile, but also to distance himself from Feijóo with whom he has maintained cold, if not zero, relations for a long time. At the same time, the leader of the extreme right has wanted to make it clear that he is following a different strategy than the one exploited by the SALF MEP, Alvise Pérez, who since he entered politics has revealed himself as a dangerous competitor of Vox.
While the ultra agitator is permanently in the affected areas overexploiting his image as a “volunteer” cleaning up mud and personally channeling aid to the victims, Abascal has preferred to avoid the photo and for the moment has not gone to visit any of the affected towns, as he did. Feijóo has done. The Vox leader opted better to be seen leading the collection of humanitarian aid to alleviate the catastrophe from the Madrid town of Arganda del Rey. Some images that his supporters were responsible for quickly uploading to TikTok despite the fact that Abascal was supposedly going “incognito.”
At Vox headquarters they continue to receive a lot of pressure from militants and some public officials of the party who ask them to call massive protests throughout Spain against the Government, as they have done on other occasions for amnesty or “corruption.” But the party leadership has been weighing it and does not consider it appropriate to mobilize people now just when the Valencians are focused on moving forward.
Vox has even wanted to disassociate itself from the serious incidents that occurred in Paiporta during the visit that Sánchez made to this ‘ground zero’ to accompany Kings Felipe VI and Letizia, in which Mazón also appeared. That day a group of exalted people and some neighbors They began to insult the procession, shouting “criminals” and “out, out” while throwing mud and some objects at them.. The President of the Government received a blow to the back with a shovel and was evacuated from the place by the Moncloa security services.
Later, this newspaper was able to verify that some of the people who participated in these serious incidents were young people from the far-right group Revuelta, a youth brand promoted by Vox, who claimed responsibility for the action. This is the same far-right group that called last November for protests against the amnesty at the PSOE headquarters, on Ferraz Street in Madrid. Vox leaders participated in those demonstrations, such as Abascal himself and the Madrid deputy and municipal spokesperson in the capital’s City Council, Javier Ortega Smith, who confronted the National Police.
Furthermore, as soon as it became known that there were several detainees for the attack on Sánchez in Paiporta, the Vox union, Solidaridad, immediately offered its legal services to those potentially “detained or fined.” A few minutes later, the deputy for Granada of this party, Jacobo Robatto Perote, shared a publication about the attack on the president with the following message: “Whoever threw it away, don’t worry, I’ll bring you a new one tomorrow.”
According to sources from the formation to this editorial team, Vox management is considering what further steps they can take, without ruling out calling for protests later.
Despite his apparent caution in not agitating the street, Abascal did not hesitate to share this weekend a video in which a neighbor from Alfafar – one of the municipalities affected by the flood – shows her indignation at “the lack of security and the abandonment” that they say they suffer from the institutions. The leader of Vox does not charge against Mazón but rather speculates on the need to undertake “a revolt against this criminal government”
Coinciding with this chaos and taking advantage of the anger of the victims, the extreme right party A few days ago he recovered on social networks the request that Abascal had made some time ago to “hang Sánchez by his feet”. “Pedro Sánchez is a politician who has no moral limits, there will be a given moment when people will want to hang him by his feet,” he said in December of last year. Now they believe the time has come to reiterate the sinister message.
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