The “right wing” of Vox is having a very heavy digestion of Ramón Tamames as a candidate for the motion of no confidence. He was already suspicious of a profile that did not have a right-wing pedigree and whose service record highlights his past as a leader of the Communist Party. Now, in addition, he is discovering as a result of his interviews, such as the one yesterday in EL MUNDO, the enormous ideological differences that the professor maintains with Vox in aspects as essential for the party as the Spanish nation, the lace of Catalonia, the issues of the 2030 Agenda, climate change or immigration… And that he has still kept his opinion on gender violence, feminism, abortion or the LGTBI community because he has agreed with Santiago Abascal to avoid it, at least, in his initial speech on 21 March, the date on which the motion is debated.
These strong discrepancies have caused the most ideologized sector of the Vox militancy to be between confused and angry with the election of Tamames as a candidate. This discomfort has reached the ears of the national leadership, which is aware that there is a part of its bases, say internal sources, “which is not amused” that it has been put to lead the motion of censure against Pedro Sanchez. Well, she attends astonished statements such as that Spain is a “nation of nations” or to learn that he proposed in a book to rename Catalonia as “Catalan Nation” after 1-O.
This circumstance is a topic that has come up in the preparatory conversations for the debate on the motion of no confidence with the candidate, where it has come to admit that there are sectors of Vox that “do not understand the play” and that it is something with which they have to “fight”.
This means doing more pedagogy among his own and explaining more and better that, despite the ideological differences, it is an election designed to “represent a social majority that exists and that has a point in common: throw out Sánchez” , as the spokesman of the party, Jorge Buxadé, stressed yesterday, to come out of the latest clash between Tamames and Vox for his interview in this newspaper.
A party like Vox, which has well-monitored social networks and which does fundamentally politics on them, has detected how some of the candidate’s opinions fall and how criticism among his followers emerges after these interventions, beyond what comes to him. by contact with the militancy. That anger has also been experienced firsthand by the national leadership, which last week let Tamames know of his discomfort at the tone of his criticism in an interview in El País. “It was a bit hard,” Tamames now admits. There are unofficial sources that point out that a meeting was even held that day to study the situation, but before noon Iván Espinosa de los Monteros closed off any speculation about the consequences of those words, reaffirming Tamames as a candidate and refusing to take “a step back” with The initiative.
Official Vox sources assure that there is no problem with his followers and maintain that the play of choosing Tamames is being understood “increasingly” among his followers despite everything. In public it is also proclaimed that there is “no discomfort” with the election, “on the contrary.” “If the only complaint is that Tamames does not share points with Vox’s political position, it is that we have been completely right with the candidate,” he tells himself.
Buxadé dressed their differences as normal and stressed that if they had wanted a candidate with whom they agreed 100%, they would have chosen someone from Vox.
Despite the desire to minimize importance, Buxadé threw some darts at Tamames to mark, also on his side, his differences and send a message of clarity to his voters. One was about the dinner that he wanted to organize with Sánchez to chat, and with which he came to contact the president or his environment. «I would never go to dinner with Pedro Sánchez. I have millions of Spaniards who are on the list before going to dinner, “he said, to later call Sánchez” autocrat “and” sociopath “.
The other dart was to replicate the criticism of Vox’s partisan use of the flag. “As for the little flag…”, he began his response, “well man, it’s not much of a display here either [looking around]. We have the national flag, of course, because we are a party that has the will to represent the Spanish people. «The problem is not if Vox makes excessive use of the flag. The political problem is all those parties that do not use the flag. Of those who burn her, outrage her, trample her or push her away. Or, on the contrary, those who only carry out acts with the flag of their party,” he said.
Tamames, who tries to highlight his independence every time he can, continues with his speech. After asking people for contributions, he has received “more than a thousand” and the sources consulted say that he has taken “some ideas” that have come to him.
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