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Vox closes the campaign in the eye of the hurricane. The high electoral expectations that mark all the polls and the possibility of becoming the third force of the country have unleashed a last week of very high polarization, in which the progressive forces, and especially the PSOE, have stirred the fear «to the extreme right »To reactivate the vote of the abstentionist left. A hypothetical mobilization and the return of that "fear", in the mirror of what happened in April, is the only thing that seems to be able to get in the way of Santiago Abascal. Arrives at 10-N pulled by new mass rallies, the incendiary situation in Catalonia and the profitability of its passage through the television debate.

Vox has since been placating the internal euphoria to not return to live a disappointment similar to that of 28-A , when it seemed that he was going to enter the Congress knocking on the door and ended up knocking on the doorbell. Actually it was a meritorious result for whom six months before did not exist for most of the country, but it was experienced as a trauma.

When it was learned that there would be electoral repetition, Vox's goal was to consolidate those 24 seats and strengthen a political space to the right of the PP. Now everything has changed. They trust what they call "patriotic vote" to take off taking advantage of the perfect storm of the separatist crisis in Catalonia and the exhumation of Franco. In addition, the void that can leave citizens would guarantee that great leap.

"People came out of the closet in April and now they are riding the float," a leading Vox member defines the moment. And, for the leadership, there has been a "normalization" of the party and some of its most controversial ideas. Something that helped Abascal's participation in the television debate, in which he placed a hard speech before millions of Spaniards without opposition from the rest of the candidates.

That made that, in addition to Catalonia, immigration has become the other major axis of Vox. A novelty It is true that immigration has always been in their rhetoric, but it basically focused on the fences of Ceuta and Melilla or what they called "Islamic invasion." Now Vox has taken a turn to, in the mirror of European far-right parties, present it as an urban and insecurity problem. To this end, it has made unaccompanied foreign minors, the so-called ores, at the center of their attacks. Abascal expressly alluded to the Hortaleza neighborhood of Madrid during the electoral debate to generalize a "problem." This place could be considered the Vox laboratory to extend its anti-immigration speech, blaming minors for robberies and sexual assaults. Which has led the left to accuse him of "xenophobia."

A moment of the closing ceremony of Vox.Susana Vera campaign | REUTERS

Attacks on the press and on the left "

Vox has closed the campaign in the Plaza de Colón in Madrid , before several thousand people in an environment that was infected by the cold that punished what has already become a mythical place for the game, far from the heat and intensity of others acts The first four swords participated: Abascal, Javier Ortega Smith, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros and Rocío Monasterio.

During the meeting, the leaders of Vox continued their pulse with the press despite the resolution of the Electoral Board that prevents them from vetoing journalists at their events or at their headquarters. Despite this, Vox fired on "journalists", "social gatherings" and even "newspaper directors", on which he ironic about his influence and those he accused of "pointing to Vox" Making a parallel with the Basque Country , Espinosa said that "In the same way that some waved the tree and others picked the nuts," that is happening with the journalists who "point" and others "aggravate." Making the media "ultimately responsible" for the aggression suffered by the Vizcaya candidate, Nerea Alzola .

Abascal, who also stressed the same idea, explained that the parties and the media "have panicked" over the outcome of the electoral debate and the polls. "They had painted a monster," he said, but the Spaniards saw that "we didn't bite or attack."

As for the political message, Abascal took advantage of the closure to launch three ideas. The first, that the vote on Vox, in comparison with that of the PP, is the only "useful one" because it guarantees "to throw Sanchez and the sectarian and totalitarian policies of the left." While the PP and Cs "shake their legs." The second idea, that Vox wants to widen and open up to the workers' voters or those coming from the left who are worried about the unity of Spain and who consider that their parties have "abandoned" the "weakest" to get into the arms of the nationalists . "In Vox they have a house, a political project that shakes hands and wants to walk with them to create a patriotic and national alternative."

Third, Abascal vindicated Vox as the battering ram that cracks and cracks the ideological building of the "progres". And he presumed that with only 24 deputies they have already managed to "reopen all the debates that the left had decided to close by decree." Now, that the polls give them more seats, they want to redouble that offensive.

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