Belen Gil Orantos |
Madrid (EFE) in the Executive if, as the polls indicate, he needs his support to lead the country.
Santiago Abascal is clear about it: you have to govern to change policies and, thus, he has defended it in the agreements reached after the last regional and municipal elections, in which Vox has asserted its support and forced the popular to cede to them power shares.
Some achievements for his party that he wants to transfer to the Government once the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has admitted the electoral weight of Vox and assumed the possibility of incorporating them into his cabinet, if necessary.
Although the PP does not expressly recognize it, those of Abascal feel essential allies to form a future coalition executive with ministers and even a vice president of Vox, following the model started in the Junta de Castilla y León and later replicated in other communities.
The polls coincide in reducing its current 52 seats in the Congress of Deputies to situate them, in the worst case, at 27 seats, which Vox does not comment on in public, considering that the polls have become a “tool of propaganda and not of predicting the vote” and by trusting in the fidelity of his electorate.
In any case, for the Bamboo leadership, what is truly important is to maintain the leading role on the political agenda and the ability to influence to condition government action, but now from the command post.
The first thing: seize the government from Sánchez
After two failed motions of no confidence against Pedro Sánchez in the legislature, Vox sees a certain opportunity in the electoral advance of 23J to evict him from Moncloa, the great objective of these elections for Abascal.
The first thing is to seize the Government from Sánchez and his allies, he insists on remembering Feijóo, whom he warns that he cannot govern with only 150 deputies and that he will need him to have a sufficient majority. However, he guarantees that there will be no institutional blockade, if it depends on his party.
Even so, he will demand to be in the Executive to ensure, he says, the end of the “disastrous” and “ideologized” policies of the left and focus the debate on what he considers to be the real problems of citizens: illegal immigration, the decrease in purchasing power , the increase in the prices of basic supplies or energy sovereignty.
30 cities in fifteen days
With the motto “Decide what matters”, Vox aspires to remain as the third political force and, to achieve this, Abascal has been touring the medium-sized provinces in recent weeks.
He is aware of the decisive role that the electoral system grants to small constituencies in the distribution of seats and, for this reason, he will also keep them very much in mind in the campaign that will open this Friday in Valladolid, seat of the symbolic Government of Castilla y León.
During the fortnight of the campaign, he will visit 30 cities and participate in 24 rallies accompanied by the provincial candidates, in which he will try to once again display his ability to mobilize.
These events will be joined by other main party leaders: the general secretary, Ignacio Garriga, and the vice president for Political Action, Jorge Buxadé.
The spokesman in Congress, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, will also have a prominent role, as well as the vice president of Castilla y León, Juan García Gallardo, and the senator for Andalusia and candidate for Congress, Pepa Millán, to whom the leadership of Vox is giving it a greater role every time.