Vox warns the government: "Change your tone if you want to sit down and negotiate."

PalmTensions mount for Vox after First Vice President and Minister of Economy Antoni Costa called on his partners to adhere to the agreements signed between the parties. Representative Sergio Rodríguez warned members of the government this Tuesday to "change their tone if they want to sit down and negotiate."

The exchange of criticisms came after Rodríguez asked Costa what the collaboration between the PP and Vox should be like from now on. In his opinion, in the general policy debate held last week (the vote on the resolution proposals will take place this Tuesday), Prohens "lacked a brief 'thank you'" for the agreements reached. Costa criticized Vox for breaching the agreement with the PP to validate the decree law on the acceleration of projects and urged him to "continue contributing to change" or to be a "spectator" of the PP's electoral platform. In response to these words, Rodríguez accused him of addressing the Vox deputies as if he were "scolding" them.

"Do you think we can get ahead in this legislature with this attitude?" he asked. "Perhaps they take us for fools." Tensions between the two parties have been increasing since the PP refused to process Vox's bill to introduce the vehicular use of Spanish in the Education Law. Although they are not against the spirit of the law, the PP argued that the wording of Vox's text went beyond that objective and violated the Minimum Decree and the Language Normalization Law, red lines for the Government. In retaliation, Vox overturned the decree law on the acceleration of projects.

Costa reminded Vox that it was Santiago Abascal who decided to break the agreement signed between the PP and Vox in 2023 regarding the budget. "The PP was willing to comply with it point by point," he asserted, accusing Vox of having "allied itself with the left" to overturn the decree law on project acceleration.

García defends the rights of immigrants in healthcare.

During the government's scrutiny session, Health Minister Manuela García also distanced herself from Vox when it asserted the right of immigrants to receive healthcare. The system, she said, "must be universal, not only for ethical and humane reasons, but also out of public health responsibility." With these words, she responded to a question from Vox MP María José Verdú, who called for limiting access to healthcare for undocumented immigrants to life-threatening emergencies, due to the "pressure on healthcare" within the system.