Vox has achieved its main objective for these elections: to be the political force that grows the most at the polls to become decisive in the formation of regional and local governments. Santiago Abascal’s party went from the 800,000 votes obtained in 2019 to almost 1,600,000 ballots yesterday. The double Thus, the extreme right led by Santiago Abascal will have the key to government to try to export the coalition model in Castile and Leon with the Popular Party to territories such as the Valencian Community, Aragon, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Extremadura…
The president of Vox already closed the campaign warning that they would not pay the quintada again in 2019, when they offered their support to the people without entering the executives. Now there will be no time “neither for gifts, nor for blackmail”. And this same message is what the ultra-right leader repeated last night from the party’s national headquarters, flooded with national flags. He directly challenged the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who did not name Abascal throughout the electoral campaign. He invited him to reveal whether he prefers a pact with the leader of the Socialists, Pedro Sánchez, to remain anchored in immobilism or to negotiate local and regional governments with Vox “to repeal all the legislation of the left”.
“We have said it in every square. We will not give away what does not belong to us, which is the trust of the Spanish and we will not give in to any blackmail: we will act firmly”, warned a plethoric Abascal.
The results obtained last night by Vox place the extreme right as the indispensable partner of the Popular Party to unseat the left-wing governments. And it is that the party of Santiago Abascal will enter the regional parliaments that were pending. It will break through in Castilla-La Mancha with four seats, in Navarre with two, in Extremadura with five and in the Canary Islands with three. Galicia, where no elections were held yesterday, becomes the only regional parliament in which Vox has no representation.
To stage the brutal quantitative jump made by the ultra party throughout the national territory, it is enough to take one territory, since the trend was repeated in all communities. Vox has gone from the three councilors it had in Salt (Girona) to 124 representatives throughout Catalonia, and managed to enter all the provincial capitals. As Vox general secretary Ignacio Garriga reported yesterday, the party has gone from having 500 councilors in Spain to more than 1,600. The ultra leader in Catalonia assured from the Vox headquarters at the Center hotel in Barcelona that the results of the polls show that “the left has been defeated in all of Spain”. Garriga, who complained last night that “everything” has played against him – he spoke of threats and aggression -, affirmed that yesterday he began “to rebuild our Spain from north to south and east to the west to end up imposing Santiago Abascal in December. In the future we will explain it with the Vox acronym”, he said.
In large provincial capitals, Vox will also use its elected councilors to form governments with the Popular Party or, at least, condition policies in a decisive way for the next few years. Its three representatives won in Seville, the four in Valencia, the two in Malaga or the four in Zaragoza will be decisive in providing stability to the predictable right-wing governments in these capitals.
After midnight, with the scrutiny almost complete, the leader of the extreme right also wanted to send a message “for the malastruks” who “on several occasions so far” have wanted to “certify the death” of the party led by Vox” . And this message was that “Vox has come to stay and will be decisive” in a national key
