Vox warns: in Andalusia the same game will be played as in Castilla y León, when, after the electoral advance, the PP had to agree with the ultra-nationalists to form a government giving the ultra-right the vice presidency. It is the message that Santiago Abascal, national leader of the formation, has sent today to the leader of San Telmo, the popular Juanma Moreno. They will be, yes or yes, holding positions in the Executive that leaves 19-J.
Abascal endorses the phrase that Macarena Olona, candidate for the presidency of the Board, pronounced a few weeks ago: "The Government will be with Vox or it will not be", disrupting the idea of the PP-A candidate to form a single-color government, without the need of reaching "unwanted agreements" with other parties, as he commented in an interview offered on Sunday to El Confidencial. But, as the polls progress, Moreno Bonilla will need a third party (Vox, since Ciudadanos could not get any representation in Parliament) to remain at the forefront of Andalusian affairs.
Olona, who has overcome the setback of her registration in the Granada town of Salobreña, is not willing to give up even a bit of power, and already sees herself "with a broom" cleaning the Board, something that, as she said, causes terror in the popular and socialist ranks.
The intention is more than clear. Vox will be part of the Government. It is the only possible way, according to Abascal himself, for Moreno to revalidate his position as president of Andalusia, despite the fact that the popular leader has already announced that, if he does not obtain that majority that would allow him to legislate for the next four years, he could choose due to repeated elections.
“It is an erroneous debate” that will end up “failing” as it already happened in the case of Castilla y León, Abascal has said about this possibility in an interview on EsRadio. “First he has to win, and we might as well win… As the citizens are sovereign, they will decide who wins. If he wins and wants to govern alone, it will be because he has an absolute majority”, he commented, “there will be no differences between Andalusia and Castilla y León. The PP has shown that it does not comply with the agreements reached, so it will have to comply with them in a government agreement.
It seems that for the ultra-nationalists the situation is clear: they will manage to increase the seats they now have in Parliament (12) to 26 and they will be the key that makes possible a government in the region.
“The real change is unstoppable”, defend the members of Vox, who have managed to clear Citizens of the equation and fish in the fishing ground of the orange formation, as well as the popular ones.
The support that Vox is garnering comes from two key points: the rural world, where a large group of ranchers and farmers, with a socialist tradition, has veered to the right; and from areas with a significant migratory flow, where those disenchanted with the PP will opt for the ballot of the extreme right. Another percentage of his support will come from new voters, young people who are having a hard time accessing the labor market.
The president of the Board, Juanma Moreno, commented that there are some red lines that he would not jump to reach agreements with any other party. Gender violence or climate change are among these issues, although it has been the migration issue, another point of clash between PP and Vox, which Abascal has addressed today.
“We are alone in the fight against illegal and massive immigration that is behind the increase in these problems” – referring to the gangs of rapists- “We do not say that these crimes are only committed by illegal immigrants, but we do call and import a type of illegal immigrant, from countries with different cultures, that do not respect women and that, for this reason, these crimes have increased", declared the leader of Vox, who has denounced that criminal legislation in Spain "allows people who cannot reinsert themselves, they leave and when they leave they commit crimes again”, he affirmed.
These electoral proposals that will now be developed in Andalusia will also be addressed at a national level. Santiago Abascal takes it for granted that Olona will reach the Board and, after her, his party will be made with Moncloa in the general elections, whenever they are. “The change of cycle has been taking place for a long time. Castilla y León is a test, as is Madrid, and the change that came to Andalusia is now going to be real and much deeper”, he commented. “There is going to be more difference with the left and that anticipates what is going to happen in Spain”, since he has warned that, if we had a sufficient majority in the general elections, “we would repeal in 15 minutes everything that the left of Spain has done. Zapatero and Sanchez”. He refers to gender policies, climate law, historical memory and economic policies.
The Andalusians are, therefore, the prelude to how the country can be after the president of the central government, Pedro Sánchez, calls the elections. For this reason, in the region they are putting all the 'meat on the grill', and they have Olona, a person who, thanks to his controversial interventions in the Congress of Deputies, has managed to have a strong impact among the disenchanted voters of one and another side, as well as among those voters who had not yet decided their vote.
The controversy caused by accounts of the "fictitious registration" of the Alicante in Salobreña (Granada) denounced by Andaluces Levantaos has only strengthened those of the extreme right, who have managed to gain more momentum after the decision of the Electoral Board to reject the appeal raised by the formation of the left to stop this candidacy. “The shot in the butt has come out of them. We continue to be strong for Andalusia and for Spain. I have come to stay”, Olona has said about this attempt to separate her from the presidential race.
Let us remember that just yesterday, the Vox candidate filed a complaint against the mayor of Salobreña, María Eugenia Rufino (PSOE), for a possible electoral crime, administrative prevarication and violation of fundamental rights after processing her removal from the municipal register.
