Abascal urges Feijóo to close the territorial pacts before 23J

He assures that Vox continues "with an outstretched hand" and "patience", but warns that the Spanish "have emergencies"

The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has defended this Monday the need to establish the autonomous governments before the general elections on July 23 and has assured that his formation has "an outstretched hand" to do so, with the only red line of " respect" to their voters.

Abascal has served as spokesman for Vox this Monday at the press conference after its Political Action Committee to claim that "the alternative is urgent" and urge the PP to clarify which path it wants to take. "We have patience and we are responsible, but the Spanish have emergencies," he warned.

Thus, he has revealed that he had a "very informal" conversation with Feijóo to congratulate himself on the results of the regional and municipal elections but they did not talk about the post-electoral pacts. As he has advanced, it will be the candidates in the territories who pivot the negotiations, although "with the same discourse in all the regions", something that he believes the Popular Party cannot say.

Along these lines, he has described the possibility of postponing the territorial pacts to after July 23 as a "strategy". "We don't like strategies, we like clarity and being able to tell the Spanish what we are going to do," he stressed, criticizing that "others" want to "avoid" making decisions before submitting to the polls again.

Abascal has assured that Vox has interpreted "with complete clarity" the result of the last municipal and regional elections and believes that the citizens have given "a mandate" in the construction of "an alternative" to socialism. "We are responsible for building that alternative. We continue to wait patiently, with our hands outstretched and with the only red line of respect for Vox voters," she explained.

And although he has warned that he did not want to send any message that could "cloud" the negotiations, he has acknowledged "concern" about the first advances in territories such as Cantabria, where the PP could choose to negotiate with the PRC of Miguel Ángel Revilla so as not to depend of Vox. This, he has denounced, would be "opting for continuity", "agreeing with corruption" and negotiating "against those voted" by the citizens "who have supported that alternative".

In any case, he has assured that Vox continues "with an outstretched hand" also in Cantabria and has clarified that what happens in this territory will not affect the negotiations in the rest of the autonomies. "It will have serious consequences for the Cantabrians, who do not want Revilla to continue, but Vox will continue with its hand outstretched, we have the same message throughout Spain," he assured.

As for Extremadura, Abascal hopes to listen to the PP candidate, María Guardiola, who is "willing" to "build the alternative." "It is what we want to hear to have a dialogue," he pointed out. "At the moment we have heard her say that Vox has to do what the PP wants, and that is not a possibility because we are committed to our voters."

In Aragon, he has asked if the PP has any option that does not go through Vox, which is "quietly waiting with an outstretched hand", and has indicated that the only option for the 'popular' would be to count on the Socialists. "But that would not exactly be an alternative, it would be the continuity of bipartisanship," he criticized.