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Santiago Abascal intervenes this Saturday during the demonstration called by Vox against the rise in prices of basic supplies.
Under the slogan The Government is looting you. Go out and defend yourself! Vox and its related union, Solidarity, called for a demonstration this Saturday in front of the town halls of the main Spanish cities to protest against the rise in the prices of electricity, gasoline and basic supplies. And claim, incidentally, that Spain has energy sovereignty to supply itself. The concentration in Madrid It was held in Plaza de Cibeles, which was not completely filled (about 2,500 people, according to the delegation of the government), and she has been attended by the leader of the training, Santiago Abascal. “We have many things to claim,” said one of the protesters before the act, Sylviaof French origin but sharpened 27 years ago in Spain, who was accompanied by his 16-year-old son. “The rise in prices, in purchases, which I notice a lot, in electricity, in gasoline… And the government does nothing while the countries next door are doing it,” he added. “It’s a The government we have is shameless. Electricity, gas, everything is sky high. We Spaniards are deceived,” said Fernando, 69. “I was in the green march and now this man is leaving it to the Moroccans again,” he said on the turn of the Government on the Sahara.In his speech, Santiago Abascal, has blamed the government for the current escalation in prices. “They have left Spaniards without savings, without a home, without a job, without being able to turn on the heating, without being able to fill the tank and without a future,” he said. “We have the worst government at the worst possible time. We have a factory of misery and ruin for the middle classes and for the most disadvantaged”, he insisted in an act in which proclamations such as “Sánchez, rubbish, lower the bills” or “Sánchezrat, we want cheap electricity”. The concentration took place on the sixth day of the transporters’ strike, for whom Abascal He has had words of support and has reproached the Government for accusing them of “violent”. “Now it turns out that the UGT and CCOO and that government of socialists and communists are against the pickets,” said the leader of Vox. The unions, he added, “have just said that electricity and fuel taxes should not be lowered. They have come to the aid of the government instead of the people.”Abascal He has defended leaving the 2030 agenda, the international commitment to reduce climate impact, and promoting nuclear energy to achieve energy sovereignty. He has reproached Pedro Sanchez also to hide in the ukrainian war to justify the price increase. “Gasoline has gone from 1.10 euros before the war to 1.60,” she said. “War is the new excuse as was the epidemic.” The president of Vox He also had words for him. PPwhom he has accused of being “the government’s crutch, the crutch of Sánchez” and “accomplice of the 2030 agenda”. “The only thing he does is give him oxygen balls”, he said. As is usual in acts of Voxthe concentration, in which the general secretary of Solidarity has also participated, Rodrigo Alonsohas finished with the anthem of Spainbetween flags and banners such as “Robbery government, labor-selling unions” or “energy, food, industrial sovereignty, now!” Before the start of the act, a hundred people from the group Black Sea with the banner “SOS. Lower taxes”, who were heading to Atocha, where they have held a parallel protest. “We don’t want to be linked to any political party,” said one of his assistants, Javier, 41 years old. “Black Sea is a group formed a few months ago on social networks by the tiktoker, Angel Gaitan, which is mechanical. It brings together people related to the world of motoring and professionals”, he explained. This parallel event has finally concluded in Cibeles. Vox has estimated at 100,000 the number of people it has mobilized in the City Councils throughout Spain.
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