At Vox they have dedicated the post-election morning to analyzing in detail the results that came out of the polls last night, focusing on the campaign for the useful vote deployed by the Popular Party in their favor. According to the calculations of the extreme right, in five provinces thousands of votes have been “lost” to the popular ones who have not allowed Vox to pull out deputies from the left.
For example, in Tarragona while Vox was on the verge of winning its first seat, but failed to do so by 2,500 votes, the PP had 9,500 votes “left over”. “If 0.65% of the total voters had gone from the PP to Vox, separatism would have one less representative and the sum of both one more,” criticizes the ultra-conservative formation.
At the party’s national headquarters, where the jubilation of the last elections did not reign last night, they have not made self-criticism for the results obtained yesterday that led the party to leave more than half a million votes and almost twenty deputies along the way. As the presidential candidate, Santiago Abascal, did yesterday in an intervention before the media without allowing questions, today the spokesman Ignacio Garriga has blamed his priority partner, his political adversaries, polling companies and the media for the collapse.
And among all those culprits, Garriga has once again singled out one with more emphasis: the Popular Party for “taking the wrong adversary” during the electoral campaign. Abascal already warned during the closing of the electoral contest that “the alarm” against the Government of Pedro Sánchez had decreased after Alberto Núñez Feijóo offered five State Pacts to the President of the Government to avoid a hypothetical alliance with the extreme right. But, above all, for appealing to the useful suffrage for the popular that, finally, as they denounce, has become a “useless vote.” “It has only served to be useful to Sánchez and harmful to Spain,” Garrica criticized.
In Vox they have identified five provinces in which this so-called useful vote “has ended up harming” the eventual sum with the Popular Party. They assure that the clearest case is in Albacete, where Vox has lacked 1,200 votes to win the last seat -which was contested with the PSOE-, while the PP “has 12,000 votes left over” that have not served it to win one more seat.
Something similar, as they warn, has happened in Seville, where he has had a seat and has lost the second in favor of Sumar by 7,000 votes. Meanwhile, the popular ones in this Andalusian province have had more than 55,000 votes left over “that have not translated into new seats.” Similar situations have occurred in Burgos and the Balearic Islands.
The sum of Partido Popular, Vox, UPN and Coalición Canarias stands at 171 seats. If the seats that Vox denounces having lost due to the useful vote campaign had been added to these, the sum of the right-wing bloc could reach 176 representatives. “There has not been a problem of lack of votes, but of poor optimization of the votes destined for the PP-Vox block,” they say.
