The president of Vox and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Santiago Abascal, warned this Tuesday that the massive regularizations promoted by the Government of Pedro Sánchez are “also a European issue” and assured that they have caused “the collapse of housing and healthcare”, in addition to “a terrible pull effect that still persists today”.
Abascal made these statements during the presentation of Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally of France, at an informative breakfast held in Madrid, after both visited Ceuta this Monday on the occasion of October 12, National Day.
The visit to Ceuta and the message to Spain and Europe
The Vox leader thanked Bardella for spending the day with his party in Ceuta and pointed out that the French leader was able to see firsthand a reality that, he said, many Europeans only know from television. In his speech, he described the autonomous city as a territory that, after the massive entry of thousands of immigrants on July 30, “is still waiting for its Government to defend it”.
“His presence yesterday in Ceuta says something very important to all Spaniards and all Europeans: that the southern border of Spain is also the southern border of France, it is the southern border of Europe”, said Abascal, who insisted that what happens at the Tarajal border “is not just a Spanish issue”, but “clearly a European issue”.
In this context, he insisted that the massive regularizations by Pedro Sánchez's Executive have had, in his opinion, direct effects on public services and on the arrival of more immigration. “As the massive regularizations by the Sánchez Government are also a European issue, those that have been carried out and that have brought, in addition to the collapse of housing and healthcare, a terrible pull effect”, he stated.
The president of Vox added that this pull effect “still persists today and also harms the interests of all European citizens, not just Spaniards”. For this reason, he maintained that Spaniards and French, along with millions of Europeans, “share the same threat” and are increasingly opting “for the same solutions”.
Abascal also explained that, for the second consecutive year, he was absent from the authorities' tribune during National Day because, he said, he cannot share it “with those who have betrayed Spain” and, “especially, with those who this year have betrayed Spain in Ceuta”.
Bardella, the alliance with France and the future in Europe
In his presentation of Jordan Bardella, Abascal recalled that the French leader grew up in Saint-Denis, in a humble social housing neighborhood, and stressed that as a child he experienced the consequences of the State's neglect in an environment where the law ceased to be enforced. “He saw as a child what happens when the State, because of its politicians, abandons a neighborhood and what happens when the law ceases to be enforced, when the usual neighbors feel like foreigners in their own street. The one who suffers the most from disorder is precisely the one who has the least”, he pointed out.
In his opinion, Bardella has reached the forefront of French politics “by saying aloud, from a very young age, what many French people probably still thought in a low voice, with his daily defense of national identity”, and added that he has suffered “the same attacks we receive in Spain”.
Abascal predicted that Bardella will be the next prime minister of France and maintained that, when Vox comes to power, “Spain will have a great alliance in Paris”, referring to the common points that both forces share in the European Parliament.
The Vox leader admitted that there may be issues on which they do not agree, but stressed that “the main duty of politicians” is to defend the interests of the nation. In this sense, he argued that the most solid alliances are based “on respect for sovereignty” and on assuming that each interlocutor defends their interests “legitimately”, even if they may sometimes clash with their own.
“I believe that the France that Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella want not only does not represent any threat to Spain, but also constitutes a great opportunity for our people”, Abascal concluded before welcoming Bardella.
