“There is nothing pro-Russian there”
Turche called the ‘populars’ “vile, cowardly and hypocritical” for ruining his new European coalition and trying to steal MEPs from the European PP.
The PP has put its finger on the sore spot of Vox’s approach to the “pro-Russian” Viktor Orbán: “It’s always good news when your opponents are wrong. Vox would not be a relevant party in Europe if they didn’t.” And Santiago Abascal’s party has responded by accusing Alberto Núñez Feijóo of being an ally of the leader Popular Front French, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. «The parties that align themselves with Sánchez’s anti-Semitic extreme left Melanchon “You will be consigned to the dustbin of history,” the Vox MEP said this Sunday. Hermann Tersch,
As this newspaper reported yesterday popular They strongly criticise the fact that six Vox MEPs have defected from the group Conservatives -where Tertsch himself held the position of vice president- for the new group of Patriots for Europeled by Hungary’s prime minister and leader of the self-proclaimed conservatives, the Italian Giorgia Meloni, eager to go even further. On the day Orban entertained Vladimir Putin, Vox severed ties with Meloni. In the midst of the invasion of Ukraine,
The PP celebrated Abascal’s turn as a way of exposing itself to exhaustion: «Vox has taken off its mask. “He is closer to Putin than von der Leyen.” But Tursch responded forcefully on Twitter: “There is nothing wrong with the formation of a large group of national forces, nor anything pro-Russian that will soon be the only alternative to the Islamist, anti-Semitic extreme left.”
«Your alliance, already approved in Brussels, with the left, with the Greens and with all the enemies of the values you falsely claim to defend, condemns all of you who remain in the PP in the medium term, as it has condemned you to defeat, humiliation and general contempt for Macron, ”said the Vox MEP before knowing the results of the second round of the legislative elections in France.
Adding to the criticism, Tertsch wrote that many MEPs are going to “flee” European People’s PartyNot to be outdone electorally, he told the populists, “because of your baseness, your hypocrisy and your cowardice in submitting to the blackmail of the Socialists and the Greens and continuing with all your abominable policy of impoverishment, intervention and totalitarian bureaucracy when the European people have clearly voted against your socialist policy.
“It is you who are in danger of disruption in Brussels, not Vox, not the national forces that do not stop growing,” the MEPs concluded their text.
Various PP leaders consulted by this newspaper agreed that the movement highlights the anti-Europeanism of Vox, which allies itself with the “pro-Russian” forces to put up a force against Ursula von der Leyen, at a time when Meloni has not closed the door to his re-election. “This is nonsense. In Spain, only people from Vox and Podemos support Putin,” they summarized.
Some of the main barons who governed with Genova and Vox are going to take advantage of this turn of Abascal to “distinguish themselves” and criticize Vox’s coalition. “Those who still see Vox as a wrong party will now see that it is a very different party from the PP” and they will see it “faster” than expected, the sources consulted said.
Of course, he noted that they will focus on the fight against Sánchez, not Abascal: «We will continue to oppose the PSOE. “Our priority is not to weaken Vox, but to weaken the government.”