Vox will request to submit to a referendum the modification of article 49 of the Constitution

MADRID, 27 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, announced this Saturday that his party wants to submit to a referendum the modification of article 49 of the Constitution, which was undertaken to replace the term "diminished" and was definitively approved in the Senate this week.

The constitutional reform went ahead in Parliament with the only vote against being Vox, which opposed it, arguing that a part of the proposed wording -- "the specific needs of women and minors with disabilities will be particularly addressed" -- "enshrines" gender inequality in the Magna Carta.

During the Extraordinary General Assembly of Vox, which has ratified Abascal's leadership without opposition and for another four years, the president has announced the party's intention to launch the process so that the constitutional change is submitted to citizen consultation.

"That it should not be reformed through the back door in Parliament, but rather that it should be held in a constitutional, binding referendum, to find out if Spaniards want to enshrine inequality between men and women," he indicated during his speech.

Abascal has emphasized that he sees it as "inadmissible" for parties to make decisions on constitutional reforms without consulting citizens. "We have gone to many elections but we have been asked very little, very little and they have made decisions one after another about which we should have been consulted," he noted.

Currently, the Vox parliamentary group in Congress consists of 33 deputies, so they could not carry out their plan. 35 parliamentarians are necessary, 10% of the Lower House. For this reason, Abascal has reported that Vox will contact deputies from the PP and the Mixed Group to help them.

Along these lines, he has delved into his criticism of the PP for agreeing with the PSOE on constitutional reform and other initiatives, such as the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) with European mediation. In this case, he has regretted that "people with disabilities are used as an excuse" and that the PP's gesture, in his opinion, "gives a gigantic ball of oxygen" to the Government.