The leader of the extreme right, Santiago Abascal, has the feeling that the “alert” in the face of “the seriousness” of Pedro Sánchez continuing for another four years at the helm of the Government has decreased during the electoral campaign. And he has identified a culprit: the Popular Party. In his opinion, the popular ones “have whitewashed” the socialist government these two weeks. Therefore, the president of the ultra formation wanted to close the electoral contest by alerting his voters that “the battle is not won”: “The vote for Vox is the only insurance.”
The third political force in the Congress of Deputies, with the 52 deputies who gave it the 3.5 million votes obtained in the last general elections of 2019, wanted to close the campaign in Madrid’s Plaza de Colón, an emblematic place for the formation of the extreme right. Late in the afternoon, with a breather that the thermometer has given, hundreds of supporters have gathered in the central square from which the largest Spanish flag in the country is erected.
The tough campaign carried out by Vox these 14 days had a clear turning point: at the beginning of this week, when the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, offered the PSOE five State pacts to avoid a coalition with Vox, the party that instead sees the popular as a “preferred partner”. This is how Vox launched on Monday for the voter “perplexed” by the PP’s outstretched hand to the Socialists.
This Friday, upon his arrival at the Plaza de Colón, Abascal has raised his tone against the PP accusing him of having “whitewashed” the Government of Pedro Sánchez. “It cannot be done”, he has insisted before calling for “massive mobility” because, he has said, “the battle has not been won”. In the leadership of Vox there is concern about the campaign deployed by the Popular Party appealing to the useful vote. They fear that the situation of the last elections in Andalusia could be repeated, where the popular ones left the extreme right cornered into irrelevance.
Before an audience delivered to the cry of “Abascal, president” and “That I vote for you Txapote”, Abascal has taken stock of the campaign. In his opinion, “the toughest of all.” And this is because “everyone” has rallied against their party: the Popular Party ignoring them, PSOE and Sumar asking for the famous cordon sanitaire to be applied to them, or even the polls and the media demonizing them. That is the photograph that the ultra leader takes of the campaign: an all against Vox.
However, Abascal has hope. He believes that “there are only 48 hours left to oust the worst government in Spain.” And if they do, his roadmap is clear. In the first place, repeal all socialist policies – that “not only the sanchistas but also the laws of Zapatero”, and then “build everything that they have destroyed”. For this they will resort, they promise, to article 92 of the Spanish Constitution to convene citizen consultations to ask about policies on immigration, historical memory, security…
