Spain Notes, Dec 11: storm over Sánchez death remarks in Abascal's Argentina interview

Government parties demand PP break off agreements with Vox. Finance Minister: "serious incitement to hatred". Housing Minister: Abascal would have been Deputy PM with conservatives.

1/ A remark in Abascal’s interview in Clarin (Argentina) yesterday, while attending Milei’s inauguration, is causing a storm in Spain. Asked about Sánchez, the Vox leader replied, in the middle of one answer, among other things, that “there will come a time, because people will want to hang him by his feet”.

2/ El País picked it up as their headline, changing the literal quote a little as Spanish papers do in headlines sometimes—removing a couple of words here, getting rid of a comma there—and socialist ministers and leaders launched an attack on the right.

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3/ The PSOE demanded “urgent” clarification on the matter: “If the PP does not break its agreements with the Vox neofascists, it will be a party to this”.

4/ “Feijóo has two options”, said PSOE parliamentary economy spokesman Pedro Casares: “condemn such intolerable statements and break away from VOX or become the greatest promoter of far-right hatred in Europe”.