Arrimadas and Abascal intensify the pressure on Feijóo to present a motion of censure against Sánchez

This Wednesday the leader of Ciudadanos has revealed during an interview with Carlos Herrera on Cadena Cope that she spoke by phone with Santiago Abascal about the need to present this motion of censure for the “infamy” that the reform of the crime of sedition entails and to convene a general election in which the citizens give Sánchez what “hurts him the most: the votes.”

Sources from his team have confirmed to this newsroom that the conversation took place on Monday afternoon, after Arrimadas sent a message that same morning to the Vox leader to tell him that he wanted to talk to him about the matter. It was the same day that the far-right leader held a press conference to also challenge the PP to take that step. The conversation between the two took place in “a cordial tone” and focused on the need to present the motion against the Government as soon as possible, both agreeing that it should be the PP that takes the initiative on this occasion, in addition to sharing some “Other reflections” on the “erroneous strategy” that in the opinion of both Feijóo was maintaining, with whom Arrimadas, on the other hand, has not come to speak.

During the interview with Herrera, Arrimadas insisted that it is not worth it for the PP to say that they are not presenting the motion of no confidence knowing that they will not go ahead with the commitment that if they govern they will annul all those reforms because “they do not trust”. “First, because by then Junqueras can be in Congress because they have removed his disqualification. Second, because Sánchez’s plan to be quick and nobody finds out can work out. And third, because we are aware that the PP makes promises that it later fails to keep, ”he argued.

In his opinion, what Sánchez is doing is “very serious” and the only way for this process to be paralyzed is with a motion of censure. “The motion of censure is useful and it is time to do it because here you have to think about crushing Sánchez’s plan and paralyzing the process,” said Arrimadas, who has assured that if she led the opposition, she would lead without “any doubt” the motion.

The leader of Ciudadanos has been asked if she is not afraid that they will be pigeonholed again in the famous photo of Colón, when the then leader of her party, Albert Rivera, shared the stage with Abascal and the former president of the PP Pablo Casado, after attending the three games to a demonstration against Pedro Sánchez and his pacts with the “separatists and nationalists”, in which they demanded that he call general elections. That image cost them to be baptized as “el trifachito”.

Arrimadas has downplayed this possibility and has argued that, although his positions and those of the far-right party were “different”, when Vox presented the motion of censure against Pedro Sánchez in 2020 – in which the PP and Ciudadanos voted against —, Abascal even thanked him for “the exquisite manners and respect” that he showed during his speech, an attitude that contrasted with the hostility that Casado showed his former party partner.

The leader of Ciudadanos has acknowledged that she “does not care” and does not have a “complex” to agree with Vox on some things, such as now on the crime of sedition and the need to present a motion of censure for that reason against the President of the goverment. “If we vote on an issue the same as Vox in Congress, it has not given me any kind of complex,” she assured, although she immediately recalled that “it is true that on many other occasions we vote differently.” “Absolutely nothing happens,” she said.

“When I see the President of the Government laundering criminals every day and making a Penal Code to suit him, I have no complex,” he pointed out, insisting that although “we have different positions on other issues, we agree on this.” “So I called Santi and told him that it is the PP that has to take the step, that this is serious enough to move,” he pointed out.

The Ciudadanos leader recalled that the motion would be “an instrumental measure” to immediately call general elections with the hope that Sánchez would then “immediately pay for this infamy in votes.” “What Sánchez is doing, talking about the crime of sedition with seditious people, is spectacular,” he denounced.