The extreme right closes the campaign with the same objective that it began: to be decisive in the formation of the next central government. But although at the beginning of the electoral contest, letting themselves be carried away by the good results obtained in the municipal and regional elections, in Vox they saw themselves with a vice-presidency -and the occasional ministry- in a hypothetical government together with the Popular Party, now expectations have been lowered, according to sources from the formation, due to the fear that the strategy deployed by the popular ones, with which the useful vote has been appealed, will triumph.
The extreme right dreams of repeating the night of the last general elections, when they broke into Congress as a third political force. On that evening in November 2019, Vox achieved 3.6 million votes, 15.1% of the vote, which translated into 52 deputies. However, none of the surveys and polls give you such results. On the contrary, the latest published forecasts – which Vox say they do not believe – reflect that the floor may fall below 40 seats, disputing third place with Sumar.
And that is where the fears come from the Vox headquarters: a sharp decline due to the flight of useful votes to the Popular Party could make them irrelevant if Alberto Núñez Feijóo manages to agglutinate more seats than all the progressive forces combined. That is to say, that the yeses of the extreme right are unnecessary in a second investiture vote.
Other voices in the party are confident that, as on previous occasions, the polls will fail again, based on the influx to the rallies, in which the ultras have once again filled places with a campaign based on the repeal of all the policies deployed by the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
