Decibel rain in Murcia. While Iron Maiden filled the stands of the Nueva Condomina this Thursday, Santiago Abascal encouraged his followers at the foot of the Cathedral. There are three days left until the elections and Vox raises its tone after the impulse that they believe the three-person debate on RTVE has brought: “They are trying to discourage us.”

For this reason, Abascal and his team are filling their most significant fiefdoms in the final stretch of the campaign. This Thursday it was the center of Murcia, the epicenter of regional tensions between the PP and Vox as a result of the blockade that prevents Fernando López Miras from revalidating a new mandate after the vote against those of Abascal, who maintain their demand to be part of the Government despite the fact that the PP hardly needs the support of two deputies.

With this scenario, the leader of Vox went to Murcia in the discount minutes of the campaign, from where he redoubled the pressure against the PP and brought together more than 2,000 supporters to show that the Region is pure muscle for the party, despite the fact that the polls dismantle this argument and predict that this time it will not be the party with the most votes next Sunday.

Abascal took advantage of the crowd twice: on the one hand, he charged against the popular attempt to discredit Vox in the territory and seek to sink it during the campaign. In fact, he pointed out the visit of the former president of the Government José María Aznar last week to the city as proof of this unsuccessful strategy in Genoa, he warned. “You thought that by walking the old glories of the party they were going to forget about Vox.”

On the other hand, he set and underpinned the conditions that José Ángel Antelo, regional leader of Vox, will maintain in his negotiations: he will demand to be part of the Government because the PP, he said, cannot ignore almost two out of every ten Murcian voters. “You have wanted to make 18% of the voters invisible,” he said. And he warned that his party “is not afraid of any scenario”. “Only to let ourselves down and betray our voters,” he said.