No survey saw them coming in February 2021, when Vox stood in the Parliament with 11 deputies. Now, three years later, the polls that the parties are conducting these days announce that the extreme right has gone from less to more in the election campaign this Sunday, showing a strength in the final stretch that no one expected and that has put in guard his adversaries. Vox also manages those numbers that have given them a range of 9-11 seats or, the very optimistic ones, 12-14. But they don’t do cabals, or at least not officially. They are surveys. Their objective this 12-M, party sources say, is to consolidate their representation in the four provinces.
To this end, Vox has deployed a campaign on the streets and on the networks in these two weeks, focused on three strong ideas. The first, a defense of Catalan and Spanish identity, against the independence movement. Second, the issue of security, in the face of what they consider “the problem of illegal immigration and Islamism,” which they also link to crime and occupation. And third, the economy, that is, the “waste of public money” and excessive taxes.
Specifically in tax matters, Vox proposes abolishing the tax on property transfers and the tax on documented legal acts, as a way to encourage the purchase of a home, also subsidizing inheritances, donations, assets and reducing personal income tax. The tax reduction may be complex to explain and sell to the popular voter, who is the majority of Vox, but it reaches the electorate that pays those taxes well, they say.
In Barcelona city, they have voted for them above all in Nou Barris and also in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi. Right in Plaza Artós cerró the party president, Santiago Abascal, campaigned yesterday, together with the candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, Ignacio Garriga.
Abascal has done the rest in this campaign. There have been ten days of rallies, walks and information tables, which have allowed direct contact with supporters. The party has not neglected any province, they want to maintain representation in all four. In the general elections of July 2023, Catalonia was the only community in which Vox expanded its result. That’s why they see it as feasible to go further. “We are there, consolidating our position, demonstrating that Vox is present in Catalonia and that it can grow,” they say.