A major operation is starting in Madrid to kill or challenge Vox, the party that was supposed to widen the electoral field of the Spanish right by mobilizing the other indignant. The sleeping patriots who had been waiting, for many years, for a voice to wake them up from the slumber called consensus.
Vox has given many people a say. Chronic abstainers, despondent conservatives, enraged rentiers, third-generation Falangists, brothers-in-law without a cause, Federico listeners eager to take action, thousands and thousands of male pride wounded by the feminist push (and by a feminist rhetoric that tends to saturation), mothers outraged by the ordeal of their divorced son, gymnasium tribunes, policemen, civil guards and military of the most diverse gradation absolutely convinced that the unity of Spain is truly in danger, agricultural owners who reject the rise of the minimum wage, small businessmen and traders upset for the same reason, workers who have disconnected from the multicultural left, people in the neighborhood who stopped believing in neighborhood associations years ago, retired people terrified by the advertising in the beam of alarms and fans of Desokupa. More people woke up: enlightened citizens, dandies of an elegant fascism eager to shake the board without the fundamental order being put at risk. Pensioners with a Facebook overdose. Viewers of morning programs on private television. Youngsters dazzled by voxer agility on TikTok. The young Catholics who sang Cara al sol in Lisbon while Pope Francis preached universal brotherhood at the recent World Youth Day. People who would like to live in a safer, tidier and more predictable world. A lot of people A lot of people. Three million voters in the recent general elections. 12.3% of voters. 8.6% of the electoral roll.
With the defection of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, the eclipse of Vox has begun, say some newspapers in Madrid, convinced that the far-right party has become a nuisance that should be eliminated as soon as possible to favor the vote concentration in the Popular Party. Now they annoy, now they are an inconvenience, now they make us lose – think of some offices -, because on July 23 it was shown that Vox is mobilizing, in the opposite direction, too many young people, too many women, too many Catalans and too many voters discouraged from the ‘left handed.
“It’s time to die”, some screenwriters of Madrid DF are saying to the replicant Santiago Abascal, still dismayed by the result of the 23-J. The resignation this week of the parliamentary spokesman, one of the strong men of the party until four days ago, would be a signal from above, since the son of Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Bernaldo de Quirós, former commissioner of Marca España, was Vox’s liaison officer with the big company.
We have to ask what M anfred Weber, president of the European People’s Party, who counted on Vox for a long-range operation in European politics, together with the post-fascist party of Giorgia Meloni, thinks of all this. It remains to be seen what happens in the legislative elections in Poland called for October 15. And we will have to wait for the decisive European elections in June 2024, which will be the great test, the breakwater where all the waves that are being generated during these months of tension and uncertainty will hit.
