Few remain in Spain for the purpose of the open war between Pablo Marriedo and Isabel Díaz Ayuso. And among those are VOX and its main leaders. The match of Santiago Abascal has taken the strategic position of keeping distances with the heartbreaking crisis that affects the popular and has established a silence as calculated as striking.
"What is bad for Spain is bad for Vox," said Abascal this Friday, in a message on Twitter. It is the only reference in more than 48 hours of the crisis. What evidences that, despite being a party prone to putting around, the decision right now is to be prudent and not shoot against a pp in flames to try to take off the war. The goal is not to appear in the eyes of voters as opportunists.
Vox understands that you do not need to go to the offensive, as you have done on the left the PSOE or united we can, because the party is already in itself the potential beneficiary of the image wear of the PP.
His demonstrated studies collect that the transfer of votes remains relevant and that the elections of Castile and Leon so have revealed, say party sources. They understand that it is a natural process that the internal crisis of the PP can accelerate, but they give for discounted without requiring that they do anything special or take a belligerent position in this.
In this sense, these sources remember that, since it is utopian to think that VOX achieves an absolute majority, the alternative to Pedro Sánchez actually goes by adding alongside the popular. Therefore, a collapse of the PP and a fired disaffection could absorb that majority. Hence, these sources express their concern and any satisfaction so it is happening in the PP.
This is the context with which the phrase of Abascal must be interpreted: "What is bad for Spain is bad for VOX". In fact, it can be linked to a previous message of VOX in which a hypothetical Sorpasso was commented by saying that they can not be happy until the forecasts do not reflect the defeat of the socialist leader.
This is one of the reasons for Vox's silence. But there are two others, as detailed by other party sources. One is that it is an internal situation of an organization and that the matter is not yet judicialized. Therefore, they explain these sources, there are no actions or investigations open on alleged irregularities. Something that can foreseeably happen soon, once there are allegations of the Madrid opposition before the Prosecutor's Office.
The third cause is that "there is nothing clear" in this whole matter. And that they are saying that they tend to the hand to the PP and that "by coherence" they can not throw them into their neck.
Date Of Update: 19 February 2022, 03:54
