Abascal criticizes the sectarianism of the Government and compares the murders of Calvo Sotelo and Miguel Ángel Blanco

He rejects the new taxes and opposes the "boldness" of the PP-Vox coalition in Castilla y León with the Sánchez Executive

The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has criticized the "sectarianism" of the Government of Pedro Sánchez, which he has compared to the Popular Front formed by the main left-wing parties before the Civil War, a conflict he has gone back to blame the PSOE for the assassination of José Calvo Sotelo in 1936 and, immediately afterwards, to censor the pact with EH Bildu to "whitewash" ETA against the memory of Miguel Ángel Blanco, assassinated in 1997.

"We will repeal all its sectarian laws," Abascal assured from the Congress rostrum in response to the speech by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the State of the Nation Debate. Specifically, he has denounced that the Executive is "dabbling in indignity" by "whitewashing" ETA's terrorism, mainly due to the new Democratic Memory Law that it has promised to repeal, like the rest of the regulations promoted in this legislature.

Abascal has maintained that the Government is based on lies since its inception, when he said that he would not govern with United We Can and then incorporated, at the request of Pablo Iglesias, EH Bildu into the "direction of the State." "It is going to leave Spain ruined, confronted and internationally weakened," he has said.

In his speech, he reproached the "coup of the pardoned separatists" later by Sánchez, referring to the 'procés' politicians, and also praised the first measures of the PP and Vox Government in Castilla y León.

Likewise, the leader of Vox has criticized the new taxes on banks and large electricity companies, which Sánchez announced in his initial speech in the Debate on the State of the Nation, discrediting him that it has caused immediate losses in small shareholders and investors, with falls in a bag.

In this economic context, Abascal has also charged the Government for the climate laws, of which he has said, that cause "energy prices to rise."

Thus, he has brought up some old words from Sánchez in which he assured that he wanted to be remembered as the president who fixed the economy, reproaching him that "when he goes up to speak to the rostrum, unemployment rises and causes losses."

During his speech, Abascal also had words for the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom he greeted from the rostrum, although he told him, "from respect and humility", that the debates raised by Vox "are not sterile debates.

And it is that the leader of Vox has wanted to contrast in this appearance the coalition government that forms with the PP in Castilla y León, with a vice-presidency and three ministries, with the model of the coalition Executive at the national level between PSOE and United We Can.

In this sense, he has claimed the cut in subsidies to unions, which has been carried out by the Executive of Castilla y León and has encouraged the PP "to stop hindering" the repeal of the Memory Law in this territory, as in Andalusia.

However, Abascal has also referred to the pact with Morocco, making Sánchez ugly "that this change of position" with respect to Western Sahara "does not obey the interests of Spain." Thus, he has urged Morocco to "recognize that Ceuta, Melilla, the Canary Islands and the territorial waters are territories of Spain."