Having consolidated its strength in Catalonia, where it maintains its representation in the Parliament and increases in percentage of the vote, Vox seems to have left behind the period of anxiety caused by the riots and desertions and faces the next European elections with renewed vigor.
This was, at least, the image that the party wanted to give yesterday when filling the Vistalegre pavilion with followers, where the extreme right exhibited its strength at the Europa Viva 24 event, organized with European Reformists and Conservatives (ECR), in which Today the prime ministers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, and Hungary, Viktor Orbán, who have sent a video, and the ultra leaders of France, Marine Le Pen, and Portugal, André Ventura, who have traveled to Madrid, will participate. But the real protagonist of the rally will be, without a doubt, the president of Argentina, Javier Milei.
As a preamble, yesterday Santiago Abascal took a crowd bath and took photos with his admirers during the tour of the festival’s provincial booths, a kind of tourist fair, while round tables on topics were held in the albero of the old bullring. as much to the taste of the extreme right as “Freedom in the face of cancel culture” or “Media and political power.”
“It is the fourth Vistalegre,” the Vox leader boasted of his power of convocation, which served to warm up his engines for the June 9 elections, in which the extreme right aspires to govern in the European Commission, and to make up for the last congress, in which Vox, faced with the turbulence, opted for a smaller and more remote space.
The candidate for the European Parliament, Jorge Buxadé, started the day with a statement in which, immersed in the campaign, he charged equally “against social democracy and the popular parties” – which exercise power, he recalled, in the European institutions – and the contrasted with “the illusion and hope” that embodies his ideological option.
“The patriotic, reformist and identity movement constitutes the political force with the greatest vitality,” said the leader of Vox in Brussels, who congratulated himself on the support that his European family receives from young people, who come to this space through the networks. social networks and the radical influencers in vogue.
All in all, yesterday’s festive atmosphere was nothing more than the appetizer for today’s main course, which will arrive when Milei – who has been in Spain since Friday, but has no official agenda, so he will not meet the President of the Government or with the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, something that had been speculated about – take the floor.
On Friday, as a prologue to what his Sunday speech can offer, the Argentine president presented his book The Path of the Libertarian in the La Razón auditorium. An act in which he defended Abascal, sitting in the front row, as the only one who embraced him at the beginning of his career towards the Casa Rosada – “when I was a despicable being,” he exclaimed –, while the popular ones – Among those attending was the former Madrid president Esperanza Aguirre, of the PP – they kept their distance.
“He is a good president and he is showing it, he is improving all the data on the Argentine economy,” Buxadé defended him, who sees it as “logical” that Milei does not meet with Pedro Sánchez after the “insults” that the president has received from members of the Spanish Executive.
