Following the split with the regional governments and the Popular Party, the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has acknowledged this Friday that there were disagreements over the decision within the party and states that “he does not rule out that there are officials who disobey the party’s guidelines and remain in their positions after the split”. The first of these defections has already occurred in Extremadura, where the only Vox councillor, Ignacio Higuero, has already announced that he will resign from the party to remain in María Guardiola’s Executive.
In the interview, Abascal said that he does not want to have anything to do with “illegal immigration” and that “he does not want to be an accomplice to Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s Popular Party either.”
“We are not a North Korean party and, obviously, the decisions that are made in the party are made by majority,” Abascal explained in a Interview on Telecincoafter acknowledging that there were “different voices within the party” but that the final one was totally “democratic”. “I am the leader of the party and obviously my opinion has greater weight, but I assume the main responsibility for the electoral results that arise from this decision”, concluded the leader of the far-right party who did not want to venture whether this manoeuvre could have been born from Se Acabó la Fiesta, his rival on the right led by Alvise Pérez.
The decision taken on Thursday, which the general secretary assured was “one of the most important decisions in the political history of Vox”, unbalances the political board of 5 autonomous governments that will have to be restructured and whose consequences are still uncertain. At the epicentre of the decision, the distribution of migrant minors who are in the Canary Islands, Abascal has affirmed that they are “neither children nor minors” and that “his people” are fully aware of “the violence that is experienced near the juvenile centres”.
Regarding the future of the town councils that are also made up of the Popular Party and Vox, the leader of the far-right party has assured that “any institution that helps illegal immigration will not have the support of the party”, but he recognises that “just as they did not break up the regional governments because Feijóo agreed to the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary with Sánchez”, in this case they will wait to see how the distribution of migrants is managed by the town councils.
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