Abascal says the party that defends women is Vox, against “sexist machismo”

The president of VoiceSantiago Abascalaffirmed this Saturday that “the party that defends women is Vox” and criticized the fact that, with the party falling into the PSOE due to the alleged cases of sexual harassment reported in recent days, it must endure “the sanbenito of machismo.”

“The machismo of abalosthat of Koldoand that of those who were in this Peugeot 407, not ours”, he said during an electoral campaign event in the municipality of Almendralejo in Badajoz, accompanied by the party’s candidate for president of the Government of Extremadura, Óscar Fernández Calle. In his speech he recriminated the candidates of the PP and PSOEMaría Guardiola and Miguel Ángel Gallardo, respectively, having called Vox sexist, according to them as a consequence “of this extreme feminism”.

“They don’t silence us with traps. We respect the women and we discuss with them as with men,” declared Abascal, before launching severe criticism against the socialists. electoral nomination of the next December 21 In Extremadura, the leader of Vox insisted that the PP and the PSOE are identical because they agree on similar policies in Brussels, notably on immigration, climate and gender.

For this reason, people wondered how it was possible that the national leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijoodon’t be ashamed to talk about a to squeeze between the PSOE and Vox in Extremadura, which he described as an “insult”. In the same spirit, he argued that the real debate between popular And socialists It is not a question of ideology, but of corruption, since “both have been corrupted”.

Given this, he presented Vox as the only real alternative in relation to what he defined as the scam of the PP and the PSOE mafia, accusing Guardiola of having frustrated political change in Extremadura. He criticized the inability of dialogue of the popular candidate and regretted that the region was now facing elections which, in his opinion, could have been avoided thanks to an agreement between PP and Vox.

An opposition, he assured, not based on extraordinary plenary sessionsbut in a motion of censure and calling elections to bring those responsible to justice. For his part, Oscar Fernandez defended the project irrigation of Tierra de Barros as an example of the abandonment that, according to him, the PP and PSOE have exercised on Extremadura for decades.