The extreme right ends the campaign with the same goal that started it: to be decisive in the formation of the next central government. But if at the beginning of the electoral contest, being carried away by the good results achieved in the municipal and autonomous elections, Vox saw themselves with a vice-presidency – and some ministry – in a hypothetical government with the Popular Party, now expectations have been lowered, according to sources in the formation, due to the fear that the strategy deployed by the popular people with which they have appealed to the useful vote will succeed.
The far-right dreams of repeating the night of the last general election, when they broke into Congress as the third political force. That evening in November 2019, Vox obtained 3.6 million votes, 15.1% of the vote, which translated into 52 deputies. However, none of the surveys and polls give you these results. On the contrary, the latest published forecasts – which Vox say they don’t believe – reflect that the floor may fall below 40 seats, thus disputing third place with Sumar.
And this is where the fears at the headquarters of Vox come: a sharp decline due to the flight of useful votes to the Popular Party could make them irrelevant if Alberto Núñez Feijóo manages to agglutinate more seats than all the progressive forces combined. That is to say, that the yeses of the extreme right are unnecessary in a second investiture vote.
Other voices in the party trust that, as on previous occasions, the polls will fail again. This confidence is based on the turnout at the meetings, in which the ultras have once again filled the seats with a campaign that is based on the repeal of all the policies deployed by the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
