The large polls published at the close of the polling stations predict a sharp drop in Vox. The extreme right could leave almost half of the 52 seats it had in the last legislature tonight: the worst scenarios proposed by the Gad3 and Sigma 2 polls give it 29 and 24 deputies in Congress, respectively. Despite this pronounced decline, the ultra formation would be decisive in reaching an absolute majority together with the Popular Party.
In the best of cases, always according to the polls and in the absence of the scrutiny data being known, Vox would obtain 33 seats according to Gad3 for Mediaset and 27 deputies according to that carried out by Sigma 2 for public television.
The extreme right-wing candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Santiago Abascal, delivered a message this morning without enormous expectations regarding the amount of citizen support that his party receives at the polls. “Any result that Vox obtains is going to be a heroic result”, slipping that their objective continues to be decisive so that the sum of the rights achieves an absolute majority, regardless of the number of Vox seats that the Popular Party needs to achieve it.
For the ultra leader, who on several occasions has described this electoral campaign “as the toughest of all”, if support for his formation falls drastically this election Sunday, this will have to do with the contest on the political board in which “everyone has played against Vox”. In his opinion: the polls that have supposedly underestimated them, some political opponents “installed in lies” and some media that “have twisted their discourse.”
In the national headquarters of the party they wait for their breath until the last moment. Although its leaders do not dare to publicly verbalize it, everyone suspects that the joy of the last night of the general elections will not be experienced again. That evening in November 2019, Vox achieved 3.6 million votes, 15.1% of the vote. That night, with a Popular Party that was not in its best hours with Pablo Casado at the helm and Ciudadanos sunk, the ultras burst into the Congress of Deputies with 52 seats, becoming the third political force.
The candidate for the Presidency is following the scrutiny on the fourth floor of the headquarters together with his advisers and members of the National Executive Committee. The party’s spokesman, Ignacio Garriga, was the first far-right leader to appear before the media. The leader of the party in Catalonia has not wanted to assess the polls published, as party leaders usually do. He has summoned to make assessments when the scrutiny advances.
