The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, maintains that there is a shared strategy between the PSOE and Santiago Abascal to dispute electoral space with his party. “Sánchez knows that the more Vox grows, the more limits the PP will have,” he pointed out in allusion to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
In an interview in La Vanguardia, Feijóo, far from making any kind of self-criticism regarding the growth of the far-right, has pointed out that Sánchez's objective would be to favor the transfer of PP voters towards Vox so that his party “shrinks”, which, in his opinion, evidences a feedback relationship between socialists and Abascal's party.
Regarding the recent electoral cycle in Extremadura, Aragon and Castile and Leon, the ‘popular’ leader has defended the call for elections considering that “Budgets cannot be extended indefinitely”. In this regard, he has lashed out at the Executive for not approving new accounts during the legislature, something he describes as continued political fraud.
“I have committed to making the necessary legal reforms so that no government can be a legislature without budgets. The fact that you win a vote to be president of the Government does not mean that you can do whatever you want during the following four years,” he/she has stressed.
Regarding the election results, Feijóo has acknowledged that Vox is at a high level, although he denies it is at the expense of the PP. In his opinion, Abascal's party “is capable of stealing votes from abstention and the PSOE.” Furthermore, he highlighted that both formations garnered 62% of the votes in Extremadura, which he interprets as a sociological change in a traditionally socialist community.
