[12][13] Abascal left the PP in 2013[8] and helped found a new party, Vox, which was formed on the same day that the Foundation for Patronage and Social Sponsorship dissolved.

[12][14] After Vox's bad result in the May 2014 European Parliament election in which it failed to obtain any seats, inner strife followed between a faction represented by party members such as Ignacio Camuñas, José Luis González Quirós and Alejo Vidal-Quadras, and a hardline faction, featuring Abascal along with other figures of the DENAES Foundation.

[18][19][20] Abascal's political programme for 2018 included the expulsion of all illegal immigrants, the construction of "impassable walls" in the Spanish African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, the prohibition of the teaching of Islam, the exaltation of "national heroes", the elimination of all regional parliaments and opposition to Catalan nationalism.

Abascal has expressed a different way to handle it (unlike the other parties that favor abandoning it to Morocco); that the people of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic have the right to self determination, with the hopeful outcome of choosing to remain and integrate as the Spanish Sahara.

Abascal says if Spain is to have immigration, it needs to be legal and to favour countries from Latin America which already speak Spanish, and share common values.

[28] Months before, the Spanish prosecutor’s office had opened an investigation following Abascal's suggestion during an interview with the Argentine newspaper Clarín that a time might come when people would want to “hang [Sánchez] by the feet.”[29] Defunct He first married Ana Belén Sánchez, who was herself a PP candidate in local elections in Llodio and Zuia; they had two children.

[34] Due to recurrent death threats for his political views and work, Abascal is licensed to carry and use a handgun for self-defence.

[35] Namely, the license type B, granted to civilians proved to experience a real and high risk of being attacked.