Abascal meets ambassador from 'woke' country: pragmatic turn or capitulation?
Vox leader Santiago Abascal meets the ambassador of a country full of woke companies. Pragmatism or contradiction? An analysis of the reactions and parallels.
English · Original discussion in Spanish · Published
Abascal meets the ambassador of the 'proge' country: diplomatic realism or contradiction?
Vox leader Santiago Abascal held a meeting with the ambassador of a country known for the spread of proge companies and propaganda. The meeting, which has barely been reported in the media, has peine the debate over ideological limits in foreign policy. Some observers see it as a gesture of necessary pragmatism; others, as a flagrant inconsistency with the party's anti-globalist rhetoric.
Reactions were not long in coming. In political analysis circles, it was pointed out that Franco's ministers already practised a similar realism, establishing relations with regimes of opposing ideology. The irony is hard to miss: the party that denounces the "contubernio mandilero" (a Vox catchphrase denouncing servile elites) and the influence of corporate lobbies now sits down with representatives of those very corporations. Meanwhile, Abascal's rhetoric avoids commenting on the beans — a reference to an untranslatable colloquial turn of phrase — but does lash out at international conglomerates.
The curious thing about the case is that, while proge propaganda is being criticised, the meeting took place without prior notice and without a public agenda. The secrecy invites the question of whether the real exchange of arguments was not between two antagonistic worldviews, but between two ways of doing politics that need each other.
Vox leader Santiago Abascal held a meeting with the ambassador of a country known for the spread of proge companies and propaganda. The meeting, which has barely been reported in the media, has peine the debate over ideological limits in foreign policy. Some observers see it as a gesture of necessary pragmatism; others, as a flagrant inconsistency with the party's anti-globalist rhetoric.
Reactions were not long in coming. In political analysis circles, it was pointed out that Franco's ministers already practised a similar realism, establishing relations with regimes of opposing ideology. The irony is hard to miss: the party that denounces the "contubernio mandilero" (a Vox catchphrase denouncing servile elites) and the influence of corporate lobbies now sits down with representatives of those very corporations. Meanwhile, Abascal's rhetoric avoids commenting on the beans — a reference to an untranslatable colloquial turn of phrase — but does lash out at international conglomerates.
The curious thing about the case is that, while proge propaganda is being criticised, the meeting took place without prior notice and without a public agenda. The secrecy invites the question of whether the real exchange of arguments was not between two antagonistic worldviews, but between two ways of doing politics that need each other.
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