Borja Sémper, spokesman of the Popular Party (PP), has expressed his dissatisfaction with the intervention of Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox, in the internal affairs of the PP and has accused him of providing a ‘new oxygen balloon’ to Pedro Sánchez. Sémper offered these statements after the letter sent by Abascal to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, where he tries, according to Sémper, to ‘divert attention’ and ‘make opposition’ to the PP, in the middle of an investigation involving Begoña Gómez, wife of the president of the Government.
Sémper refers to the fact that Abascal has criticized that the national leaders of the PP hinder government agreements between both formations in five autonomous regions. However, Abascal has advocated collaboration between Vox and the PP to erect a ‘viable’ alternative to Sánchez, despite the constant objections to his party.
In a press conference after the party’s steering committee meeting chaired by Feijóo, Sémper reiterated that they will not respond to Abascal’s letter. He stated that the PP is committed to ‘continue widening’ its political space and that its strategy is coordinated together with the citizens, not with another political formation.
Finally, Sémper maintained that the PP aspires to expand its political territory to ‘left, right and center’. He pointed out that the current critical political moment gives them the option of attracting any citizen who shares with the PP ‘the vocation and the need to recover’ in Spain ‘institutionality, education, good manners and accountability on the part of those who govern’.
