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Abascal warns of very complicated and dirty elections, urges full mobilization

In his first interview since the November 29 general election was called, Santiago Abascal warned of very complicated and dirty elections, accused Pedro…

--- The context --- In his first interview since the general election was called for November 29, Vox leader Santiago Abascal warned Spaniards to fear the worst ahead of what he described as very complicated and very dirty elections. Mobilization was his central message: he said his party would not repeat the overconfidence that, in his view, marked the 2023 election. Abascal said Spaniards have everything at stake on November 29 and asked them to turn out with no excuses of any kind, family, work, sports or hobby. According to the Vox leader, the right cannot afford to fall at the gates of victory again, and he called for total focus on the goal of removing Pedro Sánchez from power. --- The facts --- The Vox leader accused the prime minister of having tried to steal the election through the law of grandchildren, a law that, in his words, sought to nationalize en masse people with no ties to Spain. Abascal said the Supreme Court had to halt what he described as a stratagem and claimed those votes would have arrived through institutions controlled by dictatorships such as Venezuela or Cuba, or by Sánchez allies in Mexico and Brazil. In his view, the process was fraudulent and aimed to alter the electoral roll, though he conceded that some people probably obtained nationality legally. Abascal expressed his absolute distrust of the prime minister's morality and said he was convinced that Sánchez is capable of anything to stay in power. He said he is not a psychopath and has scruples, adding that behind the government a mafia and sewers have been built. He also voiced distrust of postal voting, which he claimed Sánchez can do anything with, and urged Spaniards to vote in person at polling stations, where rigging the result is, in his view, very difficult. --- The positions --- On a possible coalition government, Abascal recalled that Vox has managed to reach agreements with the Popular Party in four regions, where those governments work reasonably well, and offered a willingness to reach an understanding if the right wins a majority. He also asked the PP to break its agreements with socialist turncoats and with the Islamists in Ceuta, as well as any coalition in the European Parliament. He described his relationship with Alberto Núñez Feijóo as cordial, sharing a similar diagnosis of the government's situation but with different recipes that, he said, Spaniards seeking change must choose between. On housing, Abascal defended launching a remigration process for those who, in his words, are in Spain without being entitled to be or live on welfare benefits that Spaniards cannot access, with the goal of freeing up housing. He outlined three levels: immediate repatriation for illegal entry, deportation for offenders, and return to their countries for those who, even legally, do not work and live on benefits. He cited figures from the interview: housing prices have risen 74% for purchases and 40% for rentals since Sánchez came to power. On pensions, the Vox leader denied his party has ever proposed privatizing them, calling the idea one more lie from this government. He assured that if Vox governs, pensions in Spain will be paid no matter what, while under another Sánchez term they would, in his view, be at real risk. He also backed repealing the amnesty law even if its effects cannot be reversed and attributed Carles Puigdemont's return to the psychopathy of a leader willing, in his words, to buy an investiture by amnestying criminals. --- What remains unknown --- It remains to be seen how the PP responds to the conditions Vox is laying out and whether Abascal's distrust of postal voting translates into massive in-person turnout on November 29. The Supreme Court's final ruling on the law of grandchildren is also pending, along with whatever effect that judicial decision may have on the final stretch of the campaign. --- Unanswered questions --- Will Vox turn its warning about dirty elections into record mobilization of its voters? Will the PP accept the conditions Abascal is setting for a potential governing pact? What impact will the Supreme Court's final ruling on the law of grandchildren have on the campaign? --- EPM analysis --- The interview sets the tone Vox wants for the campaign: maximum alert, total mobilization, and a message centered on distrust of the government. Abascal pairs economic messages, housing and pensions, with direct confrontation with Sánchez, presenting himself as the firm alternative to what he describes as a power without scruples. The PP is cast as a possible partner, but with conditions not yet on the table. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, Abascal's first interview since the election call works as a campaign manifesto: it places fear of a dirty process at the center of the narrative to drive conservative voter mobilization, offering Vox as a guarantor of stability if the right adds up. The harshness of the accusations against Sánchez, always in the interviewee's own words, raises the temperature of a campaign that has not formally begun. The strategy's success will depend on Vox's base turning out en masse at the polls on November 29 and on the PP accepting to negotiate on the terms the Vox leader hints at.
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