Moreno blames Vox for its "bulk errors" in the campaign and that "they blame us on top of it"
The relationship between the Andalusian PP and Vox was close in the first legislature of Juanma Moreno as president of the Board. Not in vain, those of Santiago Abascal were fundamental partners not only for the inauguration of the first non-socialist president of the community, but their votes were essential to carry out laws and budgets. With the absolute majority of 19-J, the PP-A no longer needed external support, but even so in the first year the harmony did not disappear. However, 23-J has changed everything in the relations between the two formations, which have gone on to open confrontation and throw, as they say, the tackle at the head.
The plenary session of Parliament held this Thursday has been the confirmation of this radical change in the script, with a frontal clash between the two parties embodied in their two regional leaders, Moreno himself and the parliamentary spokesman for Vox, Manuel Gavira. Both have starred in the most serious scuffle in the last five years, those led by the extreme right formation in the autonomous Chamber.
The leader of the popular Andalusians has responded with unusual harshness to Gavira after he launched into criticizing the PP for having “whitewashed” the PSOE during the general election campaign and for having “assumed the discourse of the left” and Vox voters disqualified. Then “what happens happens and it doesn't come to them”; Gavira snapped at Moreno.
The president of the Board has gone into a frontal clash with Vox, which he has asked to do “self-criticism”, in addition to holding him fully responsible for the fact that the right-wing parties do not join to form an alternative government to that of Pedro Sánchez.
In this line, Moreno has blamed Vox for the “bulk errors” that, in his opinion, this formation has made during the campaign and that have had as a direct consequence an unexpected mobilization of the left vote that, in the end and according to Moreno's diagnosis, it has made it practically impossible for Alberto Núñez Feijóo to be president.
In this list of “bulk errors”, the leader of the Andalusian PP has cited Abascal's “inflammatory” statements about Catalonia or the postulates about sexist violence or homosexuality as key factors. “When you go to Catalonia and it is said that the World Cup is going to get messed up and that they are going to apply a permanent 155, what reaction do you think the citizens are going to have? Well, obviously they have reacted by voting for the PSC and drawing a gap of 14 deputies precisely in Catalonia”, Moreno has maintained, who, in addition, has disfigured the attitude of the Vox councilors who remained seated in the tribute to Miguel Ángel Blanco or the fact that this party has questioned the policies in favor of the fight against sexist violence.
“Do you think that this can help you? Or is it that you don't know that 52% of the Spanish population are women (…) and that there are fathers, mothers, conservatives and right-wing, whose children are homosexual and who Do they feel violated by their attitudes?”, he cried, warning him that this strategy “far from adding deputies to Vox, has achieved another result and they have been about to be the fourth force.”
If the voter “stops taking a Vox ballot it is because something has bothered him”; Juanma Moreno has underlined. “Don't put the blame on us, make self-criticism”, the president of the Board has exploded.