Feijóo expresses solidarity with Abascal after Tarragona incident
PP leader posted on X after Vox leader reported being spat at by an attacker
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Feijóo expresses solidarity with Abascal after Tarragona incident
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What this story says
- Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the PP, expressed solidarity with Vox leader Santiago Abascal.
- The solidarity followed an incident in Tarragona on Friday where Abascal reported being approached by a man who spat at him.
- A man was detained by police in connection with the incident.
- Feijóo stated on X that no one should be attacked for defending their ideas.
Who covered it
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Trust
68/100
Craft
77/100
Hype
15/100
8 sources · methodology
Thin on the left so far
Only 1 of the 7 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.
This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the leader of the People's Party (PP), has expressed his solidarity with Santiago Abascal, the leader of Vox. This statement followed an incident on Friday in Tarragona during a Vox event. Abascal reported that a man approached him with the intention of assaulting him and spat at him. A man was detained by police on the same day in connection with the event.
Coverage comparison
The reports agree that Feijóo posted a message on X expressing solidarity with Abascal and that the incident involved an attempted aggression in Tarragona. They also agree that a man was detained and that Abascal stated he was spat at.
What the coverage left out
None of the right-rated digests mention that the man detained was identified as a pro-Basque independence sympathiser, a detail present in the left-rated Infobae report.
Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 5 times, most recently on 20 Sept 2026, 13:30, and will add the sides that appear.
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Feijóo expresses solidarity with Abascal after Tarragona incident
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How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
1 rated outlet
- Infobae, the left-rated outlet, reported that Feijóo transferred his solidarity to Abascal after the attempted aggression in Tarragona. The report stated that Feijóo commented on X that no one can be attacked for defending their ideas. It also mentioned that a man was detained on Friday after Abascal said he approached with the intent to assault and spat at him.
Centre
2 rated outlets
- Europa Press, the centre-rated outlet, reported that Feijóo transferred his solidarity to Abascal following the attempted aggression in Tarragona. The report included Feijóo's statement on X: "My solidarity with Santiago Abascal. In democratic Spain no one can be attacked for defending his ideas." It also noted that a man was detained on Friday after Abascal said he approached with the clear intention of assaulting him and spat at him.
Right
4 rated outlets
- The right-rated outlets OKDIARIO, Libertad Digital, El Debate, and La Razón all reported Feijóo's expression of solidarity with Abascal following the incident in Tarragona. OKDIARIO described the incident as a "proetarra pounces against him", while Libertad Digital stated a man "pounced on him". El Debate referred to the aggressor as a "radical". All four reports included Feijóo's quote that "In democratic Spain no one can be attacked for defending his ideas."
Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover Feijóo expresses solidarity with Abascal after Tarragona incident?
- Of the 7 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 14% are rated left, 29% are rated centre, 57% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 8. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is Feijóo expresses solidarity with Abascal after Tarragona incident left or right?
- Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 7 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
- Is the coverage of Feijóo expresses solidarity with Abascal after Tarragona incident biased?
- Feijóo expresses solidarity with Abascal after Tarragona incident is one event reported by 8 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting Feijóo expresses solidarity with Abascal after Tarragona incident?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered Feijóo expresses solidarity with Abascal after Tarragona incident?
- 8 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- What happened in Tarragona?
- Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox, reported that a man approached him during an event in Tarragona and spat at him. A man was detained by police in connection with the incident.
- What did Alberto Núñez Feijóo say?
- Feijóo, leader of the PP, posted on X expressing his solidarity with Abascal. He stated that in democratic Spain, no one should be attacked for defending their ideas.
- Which outlets reported on the incident?
- The incident was reported by Infobae, Europa Press, OKDIARIO, Libertad Digital, The Objective, El Debate, and La Razón.
Read it at the source
8 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.
Left
1Centre
2- Feijóo Moves His Solidarity to Abascal After His Attempt at Aggression in Tarragona "for Defending His Ideas" (opens 20minutos in a new tab)
- Feijóo Moves His Solidarity to Abascal After His Attempted aggression... (opens europapress.es in a new tab)
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Right
4- Feijóo Condemns the Attack on Abascal: «In Democratic Spain No One Can Be Attacked for Defending His Ideas» (opens OKDIARIO in a new tab)
- Feijóo Condemns the Attack on Abascal: "No One Can Be Attacked for Defending His Ideas" (opens Libertad Digital in a new tab)
Libertad Digital — is Libertad Digital biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Feijóo Sympathizes with Abascal: «In Democratic Spain No One Can Be Attacked for Defending His Ideas» (opens El Debate in a new tab)
- Feijóo Sympathizes with Abascal After an Attempt at Aggression to "Defend His Ideas" (opens La Razón in a new tab)
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