Santiago Abascal has taken advantage of his rally in Segovia this Thursday to back Javier Milei and reproach the PP for questioning his insults to Pedro Sánchez. The leader of the far-right Vox has pointed to the mayor of Badalona, Xavier García Albiol, and the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, for having censored the Argentine president's manners. "This way it's difficult to end this Government," he stated to his supporters.
The intervention combined that defense of Milei with new accusations against the Executive for incidents at Vox events, doubts about the fairness of the November 29 elections, and its program of expelling foreigners. Abascal also presented Sánchez as a risk to pensioners and promised to "recover" Ceuta "at any cost and with all its consequences".
The ultra leader ironized that Albiol, whom he described as "the toughest of the PP," had criticized the Argentine president. "The PP is already there to be scared," he added. His reproaches come after Moreno rejected Milei's "outbursts" and "coarse words," while the mayor of Badalona demanded more appropriate manners for the responsibility he holds.
Milei called Sánchez "dictator" and "thief" on Wednesday during his visit to Madrid. Abascal chose to accompany these disqualifications with his own, stating that the Government "is simply not democratic" because it came to power "lying to Spaniards." He thus turned his rejection of the Executive's decisions into a challenge to its legitimacy, despite Sánchez having obtained the confidence of Congress through the constitutional investiture procedure.
The event, held at the Zibá José María Eventos venue, was attended by Carlos Pollán, Vox leader in Castilla y León, and the candidate for Congress for Segovia, Gonzalo Babé. Abascal boasted about his party's mobilization and its consolidation as an alternative, after a morning appearance in Burgos where he had already accused Moncloa of organizing violence against his events.
Suspicions about 29N and accusations against Moncloa
"Why do we have to trust that these elections will be clean?", Abascal asked in Segovia. The insinuation prolongs Vox's campaign of suspicion about the foreign census and the application of the so-called grandchildren's law. In the morning, he had announced that he would request actions from the Supreme Court to verify which authorities might be failing to comply with its resolutions on this matter.
Controversies over voter registration have their administrative and judicial channels, but they do not in themselves demonstrate manipulation of the elections. Electoral law entrusts the guarantees of the process to the electoral boards and polling stations, establishes public recounts, and allows candidacies to supervise operations and file complaints.
Abascal has also held the Government responsible for the incidents recorded on Wednesday in A Coruña and Avilés, where there were disturbances, police charges, arrests, and injuries. In Burgos, he spoke this morning of "violence organized from the Moncloa Palace" to prevent Vox from explaining its program. In Segovia, he again pointed to the Ministry of Interior, the Government Delegation, and Sánchez himself, without identifying instructions or documents that prove such organization.
His reply to the mayor of A Coruña, the socialist Inés Rey, started from the premise that she had accused Vox of seeking provocation. "Don't we have the right to go to Galicia, for the Galicians who vote for us to come and listen to us?", he asked. But Rey had also expressly condemned the violence, had rejected the burning of urban furniture, and had warned that such behaviors amplify the message of the far-right. For his part, Minister Óscar Puente condemned the violent incidents this Thursday, with the clarification "if there were any," and called for combating Vox through voting.
The confrontation with popular leaders over Milei coexists with Vox's conversations with the PP for the Senate. Abascal has asked for prudence and discretion and has defined them as "serious and important". Their stated objective is to counteract the alliance of the socialists with Frente Amplio and other left-wing forces. He has not announced a closed agreement nor specified what formula both organizations would accept.
Expulsions, pensions, and threats about Ceuta
The program presented in Segovia once again places "national priority" and "remigration" among its main axes. Abascal proposes expelling those in an irregular situation and extending this policy to foreigners with legal residence who commit crimes or live off public aid. He accompanies this with tax cuts and deregulation, in addition to his rejection of norms he links to climate, Agenda 2030, and gender policies.
The proposal to expel residents for receiving aid clashes with rights recognized in current legislation. The Immigration Law establishes that foreign residents access social benefits and services under the same conditions as Spaniards. It also recognizes basic social services regardless of administrative status. Expulsions, including those related to certain crimes, are subject to legal causes, procedures, and individual guarantees.
Abascal has tried to separate this discourse from foreigners who work and contribute, whom he also presents as harmed by the Government's migratory policy. At the same time, he has stated that "the risk to the security of pensioners is the continuity of Pedro Sánchez." The latest official balance from September registers 3,635,979 foreign affiliates to Social Security, 16.2% of the total. Their contributions help finance the system that pays pensions.
The Ceuta border crisis has occupied another block of the intervention. The Vox leader has accused the Executive of "betraying" Spaniards and has promised to "recover" the autonomous city, which is Spanish territory, "at any cost and with all its consequences." "Let no one dare to claim part of our national territory," he added in reference to Morocco.
Pollán has also hardened the migratory message by promising that "not a single euro from Castilian-Leonese citizens" will be allocated to managing irregular immigration. Babé, for his part, has presented the Government as a "mafia capable of anything" and has asked that no vote be wasted. The candidate has defended his connection with Segovia by explaining that, although he was born in Madrid, he has spent his entire life summering in a family home in the province, and has highlighted heritage, tourism, and tax reduction as priorities.
Abascal has closed his electoral appeal trying to attract citizens who previously chose other options. "We have no reproach for any Spaniard, no matter what they voted for in the past," he stated. The far-right Vox has scheduled the joint presentation of its candidates for Monday, October 26, in Talavera de la Reina.
