Vox has entered the Catalan city councils with the same force with which it broke into the Catalan Parliament two years ago and will seat councilors in nine of the ten main cities, including Barcelona, where they will have two representatives.
The ultra formation has obtained almost 150,000 votes in the total community, which means multiplying by four those of 2019 and exceeds the three mayors of that year, all in Salt (a municipality of Girona with close to 40% of the immigrant population). to 124 east 28-M.
In three weeks, when the town councils are constituted, Vox will also have three councilors in L'Hospitalet, the second largest Catalan city. They will be the same as in Terrassa, Tarragona and Reus, two other mayors in Sabadell, Lleida and Santa Coloma de Gramenet, one in Girona and four in Mataró.
They are the cities with the most population. Only Badalona is left out of that map in which Ignacio Garriga's men have put a thumbtack. Xavier García Albiol, with a resounding victory and a speech that is somewhat in tune with that of the extreme right, has been able to keep them at bay.
Where the Vox votes that have caused a shock on the Catalan political board come from is a question that will have to be analyzed in time. To begin with, the drop in participation by almost nine points compared to 2019 has favored them, since their electorate is highly mobilized and with fewer votes they have accessed the 5% representation required by the electoral law to have councilors. But it is not the only factor. There has also been, without a doubt, a transfer of the votes that Ciudadanos obtained in 2019 and which have now been distributed – not with the same proportion – together with the PSC and the PP.
And it is evident that the success of Vox in Catalonia is a replica, albeit of less intensity, of what happened in Spain, where they will have the key to practically all the autonomous governments of the PP. Vox began to grow in November 2019, in the repetition of the general elections of that year. The municipal ones had been held in May, which means that he had not had the opportunity to test the power that he was beginning to show in the town halls.
Now they are entering the Catalan town halls, with candidates who may not even know who they have voted for. From now on you will know them.
