VOX helped the PP into government after Feijóo's remarks

A forum user criticises VOX for helping the PP into government after Feijóo's remarks

"Let's remember that VOX gave governments to this gentleman's party after these statements." That is the criticism that opens the thread, accompanied by a link to a report on ondacero.es about some statements by Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The exact content of those statements is not reproduced in the debate, so the quote that some messages attribute to him is not substantiated by this material.

What can and cannot be verified

The thread does not transcribe Feijóo's words nor detail the specific agreements between VOX and the PP. What there is are claims from participants: that they governed with someone they had criticised over certain measures, and that no one has been held accountable for it. Without the text of the statements or the details of the deals, that contradiction cannot be taken as proven; it remains a political jab thrown into the debate.

Abascal, the lockdown and the call to vaccinate the Mossos

There are more loose threads. Santiago Abascal is credited with being the first to call for a lockdown, and another message claims that vaccination was requested for the Mossos d'Esquadra (the Catalan regional police). According to those taking part in the thread, these two gestures break the narrative of monolithic coherence: the party critical of the restrictions would also have called for a lockdown and would also have demanded vaccine doses when the time came. These are claims without any documentation attached in the messages themselves.

The "same master" thesis does not hold up

One message in the thread claims that both parties serve the same power and that the same people pull the strings of both. There is not a single piece of data in the debate to support such a thesis; it works as a conversation-ender, not as an explanation. If everything is the same, nothing deserves analysis.

What is verifiable is less epic: two organisations that need each other to govern, according to the opening criticism, and a discussion that is cut short by blocks between the users themselves.

Insults, nicknames and slogans

A good part of the thread consists of mutual disparagement, with insults and nicknames aimed at public officials that this outlet does not reproduce, messages that take it as given that the two parties are "the same", and the odd slogan such as "neither forget nor forgive". The thread contains no explanation from the parties about the change of stance they are criticised for: the discussion ends without anyone providing the text of the statements or of the agreements.