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Garriga in Zaragoza blames Sánchez for Barcelona looting: "He is directly responsible"

Vox Secretary-General Ignacio Garriga used his visit to Zaragoza to express his “firm condemnation and absolute rejection” of the looting at shops in Barcelona that took place on Saturday. He also held the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez responsible for both the unrest and attacks at Santiago Abascal’s rallies: “He is directly responsible.”
Garriga in Zaragoza blames Sánchez for Barcelona looting: "He is directly responsible"

He also warned that situations such as those seen in Barcelona on Saturday, resembling events in Paris in recent days, in which “hundreds of young foreigners took to our streets to unleash violence amid the silence of the Catalan administrations and also the prime minister,” could become “something routine” after November 29.

For this reason, Garriga said that in this general election Spaniards are deciding whether “chaos takes hold in the streets at the hands of the Socialist Party or order is restored at the hands of Vox.” He accused the Socialists of deliberately spreading “fear” because they know that if his party “reaches Moncloa, rights and freedoms will be guaranteed and not threatened,” as he believes could happen if Sánchez remains in power for another four years.

Vox’s secretary-general also explained what, in his view, are the two main causes of the housing crisis, both promoted by the PSOE. On the one hand, he blamed current migration policy: “More than five million people have arrived in Spain over the past five years, while the Spanish government has barely built 500,000 homes. More than ten people have arrived in our national territory for every home.”

On the other hand, he said that “overregulation” causes the supply to “decrease and makes it even more difficult for those who want to build housing privately.” As an example of his solution at the national level, he cited Aragon’s Housing Law, which will include “national priority,” as well as “building and increasing the public housing stock, guaranteeing legal certainty and ending squatting.”

To achieve this, Ignacio Garriga called for people to vote: “On November 29, we can and must remove the Socialist Party from office, but to do so we must convince every last neighbor and family member to go out and vote. It is essential that no one assumes Pedro Sánchez is a thing of the past. He is willing to do absolutely anything to remain in power.”

About this article: Originally published in Spanish by AragonDigital.es and—following a selection process by our journalists—made available to the international audience of AragonDaily.com. Both newspapers belong to companies within the ARAGON DIGITAL GROUP.