The differences between Ramón Tamames and Vox on capital issues are becoming more visible every day, as the candidate for the motion of censure revealed this Monday in an interview in EL MUNDO. In it, he defends the existence of autonomies and defines Spain as a “nation of nations”, criticizes those of Santiago Abascal for the partisan use of the flag or acknowledges that he contacted Pedro Sánchez to invite him to dinner before his debate in The congress.
It rains, it pours, because last week another interview unleashed discomfort in this game with his words. “It was a bit harsh,” Tamames now acknowledges in his talk with this newspaper after receiving a touch from Abascal’s team for the tone of his criticism.
Despite all this, Vox tries to downplay these differences and proclaims that it has “no discomfort” with the choice of Tamames as its candidate in the motion, “on the contrary.” “If the only reproach is that Tamames does not share points with Vox’s political position, it is that we have been completely right with the candidate,” Jorge Buxadé has sentenced.
At a press conference, the national spokesperson for Vox has normalized these criticisms because they were not looking for “a candidate similar” to the ideas of the party, but “an independent candidate who could represent a social majority that exists and who has a point in common: throw out Sánchez”.
Despite the argument to close ranks with his election, Buxadé did want to respond to some of the attitudes or criticisms of Vox made by Tamames to mark, also on his side, his differences. One is 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 of going to dinner before. From then on, I don’t know personal relationships,” Buxadé replied, who minutes later crossed out the Prime Minister of “autocrat” and “sociopath”.
The other criticism of Tamames has come from his reproaches to the partisan use that Vox makes of the Spanish flag. “As for the little flag. Well man, it’s not a special exhibition here either [looking around]. We have the national flag, of course, because we are a party that wants to represent the Spanish people,” he said.
“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 it, outrage it, trample it or push it away. Or on the contrary, those who only do acts with the flag of their party”, Buxadé has deepened, who has stressed that they act “proud” of the use of the symbols that constitute the nation, as are the anthem, the shield or the King.
The other hot point of the interview, the definition of Spain as “a nation of nations, a supernation”, Buxadé’s reply has avoided controversy. “I sign that Spain is a supernation. Such a supernation that it was an empire and made Hispanicity.”
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