Santiago Abascal

On the day of the joint United States and Israeli attack on Iran, Abascal said he saw it with great hope and that the world would be freer if the regime fell.

“if the regime of the ayatollahs falls, the world will be freer”

In Spanish: si el régimen de los ayatolás cae, el mundo será más libre

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With liberty

Backing military action against the Islamic Republic counts as with liberty.

Abascal pointed to the killing of tens of thousands of protesters in Iran and said Sánchez's call for diplomacy made him the best ally of rulers who massacre their own people.

“the best ally of those who massacre their own people”

In Spanish: el mejor aliado de aquellos que masacran a su propio pueblo

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With liberty

Speaking for the Iranian protesters against their rulers counts as with liberty.

At a meeting of the Patriots for Europe parties in Madrid, Abascal criticised the International Criminal Court for treating Israel like terrorists.

“the EU, the UN, the WHO or the International Criminal Court, which attack our sovereignty and our health and dare to put democratic nations like Israel on the same level as terrorists”

In Spanish: la UE, la ONU, la OMS o la Corte Penal Internacional, que atacan a nuestra soberanía, nuestra salud y se atreven a equiparar con terroristas a naciones democráticas como Israel

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With liberty

Opposing the case against Israel at the International Criminal Court counts as with liberty.

The Vox deputies in Congress, the group Abascal leads, voted against the decree law that put an arms embargo on Israel. It was ratified with the votes of the other groups.

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With liberty

Voting against an arms embargo on Israel counts as with liberty.

After Trump's clash with Zelensky at the White House, Abascal backed Trump and criticised Sánchez, Feijóo and European leaders for supporting Zelensky. He said only the United States could help Ukraine defend itself.

“And they are willing to let Ukrainians keep dying just to try to wear Trump down”

In Spanish: Y están dispuestos a que sigan muriendo ucranianos sólo para tratar de desgastar a Trump

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Not clear either way

He sided with the United States and against the leaders backing Zelensky, without siding with Russia, so the line does not settle the measure.

On the day the United States captured Nicolás Maduro, Abascal welcomed it.

“the world is a little freer”

In Spanish: el mundo es un poco más libre

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With liberty

Standing with the United States against the Maduro government counts as with liberty.

Vox's programme for the 2023 general election, with Abascal as candidate, proposed raising defence investment and funding the modernisation of the armed forces.

“properly [fund] the modernisation programmes for the Armed Forces, promoting the development and contracting of national defence services and industry on land, at sea, in the air, in space and in intelligence”

In Spanish: adecuadamente los programas de modernización para las Fuerzas Armadas, impulsando el desarrollo y la contratación de servicios e industria nacional de Defensa en los ámbitos terrestre, naval, aeronáutico, espacial y de inteligencia

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With liberty

Funding and equipping the armed forces counts as with liberty.

When the government opened talks on raising defence spending, Vox, like the PP, said 2% of GDP should be the floor to grow from.

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With liberty

Asking for defence spending above the NATO target counts as with liberty.

Vox was the only party in Congress to vote against taking up a citizens' bill to regularise about 500,000 foreigners living in Spain without papers.

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With liberty

Voting against a mass regularisation counts as with liberty.

Presenting his campaign for the 29 November election, Abascal named what he calls remigration, the return of migrants to their countries, as one of Vox's three main proposals.

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With liberty

Deporting migrants and cutting entry counts as with liberty.

Answering Sánchez's support for the migrant rescue ship Open Arms, Abascal called for sinking the boats that bring migrants across the Mediterranean, arrivals he described in religious terms.

“Putting you in jail is the only thing more urgent than sinking the boats of the Islamist invasion”

In Spanish: Meterte en la cárcel es lo único más urgente que hundir a los barcos de la invasión islamista

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Not clear either way

A line about sinking boats is not a policy on who may enter the country, so it does not settle the measure.

In a speech in Washington, Abascal accused European politicians of promoting or tolerating Islamic courts in European cities.

“they promote or tolerate Islamic courts in our own cities and have abandoned the women of Europe, who now see sexual assaults multiply”

In Spanish: promueven o toleran tribunales islámicos en nuestras propias ciudades y han abandonado a las mujeres de Europa que ven como ahora se multiplican las agresiones sexuales

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With liberty

Opposing religious courts over citizens counts as with liberty.

Two days after Congress voted down a Vox bill to ban the burka and the niqab in public spaces, Abascal defended the ban at a rally.

“They are realising that Islamism is incompatible with Spain and with freedoms.”

In Spanish: Se están dando cuenta de que el islamismo es incompatible con España y las libertades.

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With liberty

A ban on the full veil counts as with liberty.

Vox filed an amendment against a bill that would remove the crime of offending religious feelings. Its own text keeps the crime and adds a fine for offences committed for anti-Christian motives.

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Against liberty

Keeping and widening a blasphemy law, with special protection for one religion, counts as against liberty.

Abascal demanded a national referendum on the trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur and said it would destroy Spanish farms through competition.

“It has been imposed by the PP and the PSOE behind the backs of Spaniards”

In Spanish: Ha sido impuesto por PP y PSOE a espaldas de los españoles

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Against liberty

Opposing a free trade agreement to shield domestic producers is protectionism, the side against liberty.

At Vox's general assembly, closed by Abascal, the party presented a deregulation programme that repeals the housing law with its rent caps, the climate change law and the 2021 labour reform.

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With liberty

Less regulation and no rent controls are with liberty by our test.

Abascal opposed the government's new tool to track hate on social networks and told Sánchez to give up hope of censoring young people.

“give up all hope of censoring young people”

In Spanish: pierda toda esperanza de censurar a los jóvenes

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With liberty

Opposing government monitoring of lawful speech online counts as with liberty.

The same Vox amendment raises the fines for insulting Spain or its symbols and makes it a crime to show, at public events, emblems that stand for breaking up the country.

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Against liberty

Keeping and widening speech crimes counts as against liberty, whoever the target is.

In the same Washington speech Abascal said European civilisation is not what he called woke ideology or cancel culture.

“Europe is not Islamist submission, nor woke ideology, nor cancel culture”

In Spanish: Europa no es la sumisión islamista, ni la ideología woke ni la cultura de la cancelación

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With liberty

Rejecting race and gender ideology counts as with liberty.