Sánchez stands up to the extreme right: "Less wolves, Little Red Riding Hood!"

"Less wolves, Little Red Riding Hood!", Pedro Sánchez replied this Wednesday to the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, in the face of the escalation of political tension that the extreme right is triggering from the Congress of Deputies itself to heat up the new electoral cycle.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
30 November 2022 Wednesday 01:31
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Sánchez stands up to the extreme right: "Less wolves, Little Red Riding Hood!"

"Less wolves, Little Red Riding Hood!", Pedro Sánchez replied this Wednesday to the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, in the face of the escalation of political tension that the extreme right is triggering from the Congress of Deputies itself to heat up the new electoral cycle.

In the government control session, both the spokesperson for the Popular Party, Cuca Gamarra, and the president of the far-right formation, Santiago Abascal, have agreed to blame the head of the Executive for his conviction that he will go down in history for having moved the remains of Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen. But Sánchez has emphasized his reply to Abascal, who has equated him with "Nerón or Calígula" and has denounced his collusion with "extremists, separatists and philoetarras".

"I had no doubt that you were the main scriptwriter of the sad role that your parliamentary group has played last week in this Chamber," Sánchez warned Abascal. And he has accused the far-right leader of launching "sexist insults at women", shooting "traps at his political adversaries", and also "poisoning the coexistence of this country". The PSOE leader has criticized Abascal's "work performance": "He does nothing more than say insults and hoaxes." "Is that the Spain that gets up early?" He replied.

Sánchez has warned that Vox's political strategy is based on launching "hoaxes". And he has focused on trying to dismantle one of them, after the agreement of the central Executive with EH Bildu for the transfer of Traffic powers to the regional government of Navarra. The socialist leader has denied Vox's accusation that Navarra is going to be "unprotected" from the presence of the Civil Guard. And he has assured that since he arrived at Moncloa there are already 1,581 civil guards in this community, "94 more than there were four years ago." During the mandate of the PP, he has assured, the agents of this body in Navarra were reduced by 390. The agreement sealed now, he has insisted, only complies with the statute of this community and the Constitution.

But it is more: Sánchez has stressed that this agreement dates back to the one that was sealed in the year 2000 by the then president José María Aznar and the then president of Navarra, Miguel Sanz, of UPN. "Where were you, Mr. Abascal? In the year 2000 you were in the national direction of the PP and in the direction of the PP in Euskadi. And he didn't say anything, he was silent. So, fewer wolves, Little Red Riding Hood! ”, He has exclaimed.

"You cannot give any lesson in patriotism, because your patriotism has always had a price: the salary of the PP or a PP beach bar," Sánchez settled before Abascal, causing a standing ovation from the socialist bench.