These days there are many interpretations about the reasons that have motivated the growth of the right-wing vote in Spain. The most repeated is the rejection effect that many of the measures of the Government of Pedro Sánchez have provoked, especially those that have had to do with social issues such as parity or the rights of the LGTBI community, and also the decisive role in some votes of the Basque and Catalan independentistas, who have allowed the Executive to save some votes.
Vox seems to be one of the parties that is benefiting the most from this reaction to the contras, and a part of the published opinion tries to excuse or justify the growth of the extreme right, attributing it to the decisions made by powerful ministers or, as some point out, , by ministers of the ultra-left. But when a party like Vox allows itself to hang a canvas on a central street in Madrid where it proposes to throw away the symbols of feminism, communism, the 2030 Agenda, the LGTBI community or the independence movement, the voter who chooses this path You must be aware of the vote you deposit. The excuse of being an irritated voter who wanted to change the world with the 15-M movement and now feels cheated and has gone to the antipodes is not worth it. Whoever votes for Vox or facilitates with his vote that Vox can have the capacity to govern knows perfectly well what he is doing and cannot hide behind the argument that the progressives have done it very badly. It is the theory that the right has won the battle of the story and the negative impact of the trans law or that of the only yes is yes is more important than the merits that the Sánchez government may have acquired in this complex legislature.
The admired Carlos Zanón explains it very well in his latest book, One Hundred Ways to Break a Glacier, in which he compiles some of his articles in La Vanguardia. Carlos writes: “You vote for the extreme right because you are from the extreme right. So easy, that simple”. Perhaps there is no need to look for more excuses or euphemisms: whoever votes for Vox knows exactly what they are voting for. And let’s not go around it anymore.
