Vox warns the PP electorate that voting for Feijóo is "whitewashing" Sánchez: "The blue button does not work, I ask for your trust"
All roads lead Vox to Colon. Santiago Abascal went this Friday to the square of its symbolic majorities, that of its historical claims, to its electoral amulet surrounded by the entire leadership of the party to, after 11,000 kilometers of route, close the most important campaign for Vox. With 36 hours to go before the polling stations open, Abascal launched the latest proclamation to demand that his people, unlike the Popular Party, not relax: “The battle has not been won.”
“There remains one last effort to convince our compatriots”. The entire Vox leadership oozed intensity so that the electorate does not give up or trust. Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, Ignacio Garriga or Jorge Buxadé, among others, encouraged those present to continue trying to convince their entourage until Sunday so that the result of Vox is as broad as possible and thus be able to guarantee “the alternative”.. “It is a historic opportunity for Spain to begin to change course,” launched the Secretary General.
Abascal accused Alberto Núñez Feijóo, taking advantage of the end of the campaign, of “laundering” Pedro Sánchez and his government management with his offer of State pacts and with the proposed agreement so that the most voted list governs. This is the argument that Vox is exploiting from the face-to-face held on Monday of last week on RTVE: promise that the only vote that guarantees an agenda directly opposed to sanchismo is the one that goes to Santiago Abascal. A strategy with which to try to stop the transfer of votes to the PP that the polls detect. “It is not a useful vote; it is a confusing vote,” warned Garriga about the popular option.
In fact, Espinosa de los Monteros said that there are only two options in these elections: either bet on “red” or “green”. “The blue button doesn't work,” he asserted.. Something to which Abascal joined, who said he understood and respected the loyalty of the popular voter to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, but still launched himself for his support: “I dare to ask for your confidence. We are not going to let them down, we are capable of representing them.”
The Vox leadership was not alone in Colón. More than 5,000 people, according to the party's count, filled a closing rally that included the participation, as throughout the campaign, of fifteen international leaders of the alternative right linked to Vox: the Prime Ministers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni; Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, and Hungary, Viktor Orbán, intervened and encouraged Abascal to expand the success of his partners throughout Europe to Spain.. Numerous representatives of the party's Latin American alliances also participated, such as José Antonio Kast, a former Chilean conservative leader.
Vox comes from running a more moderate campaign than in the municipal and regional ones. Even so, Abascal denounced that this has been “the most aggressive, toughest and most difficult” that his party has faced, which opted to play at home in almost all acts: he went to his fiefdoms and where he recently established himself as a government force. And he faced the final stretch in its most emblematic squares: Toledo, Guadalajara, Murcia and Madrid as the culmination of his caravan.
In the middle of this route, the three-way debate held on Wednesday on RTVE served Vox to recharge emotions and redouble its power for the last sprint. In the leadership of the party they believe that the role that Abascal played, encompassing the entire right in the absence of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and confronting him alone with the two government leaders, Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz, gave wings to the candidate and strength to the party in the final stretch of the race to the polls.