Santiago Abascal responds to Alberto Núñez Feijóo after wanting to govern alone: "I don't see myself as vice president because I'm running for president"

After the words of the national spokesman for the PP, Borja Sémper, representing the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, assuring that Núñez Feijóo's commitment remains to form a government alone, and that for this he needs more votes and more support in the next general elections, defending to pact with Vox if necessary.

To these words, the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, replied this Tuesday, July 7. "I don't see myself as vice president because I am running for president," Abascal assured. He continued by commenting that he has a good personal relationship with Feijóo and defended that, despite Vox's criticisms of the PP, they get along well. "We have denounced the agreements between the PP and the PSOE, that does not mean having a bad relationship, it means that we have an obligation to tell the truth," he clarified. As proof, the agreements between both formations to govern in coalition in Extremadura, Aragon, Castilla y León and Andalusia.

The current relationship is one of "respect", according to Abascal, who believes that the partners "have always known that they are condemned to understand each other." "We respect our government partner, with whom we can have many discrepancies and have had many discrepancies and we ask him to respect us and respect the pacts," he continued. In this sense, and as he warned at the Ordinary General Assembly of Vox at the end of June, the leader of Vox has repeated that they will break again if the agreements are not fulfilled and if their partners put "stumbling blocks" in their way.

He also spoke about the agreements reached with the PP. The last one last week in Andalusia, Abascal declared himself "satisfied" in any case, although he is aware that the verdict of the polls does not allow them to "impose all" their electoral program. "We have achieved important things, but we have not achieved all that we would like, far from it," he commented. Regarding the issue of national priority, Abascal defended that: "It is a political and moral principle based on common sense that the vast majority of Spaniards share," he stressed, not without adding that: "It is not unconstitutional, that the Constitution does not include a term does not mean that it is."