• Vox Abascal launches to stop the escalation of Feijóo: recovers its public presence and closely marks the negotiations
  • 23-J Abascal pressures Feijóo to negotiate in electoral period while the PP tries to force governments without Vox

The plan triumphed in 2019, but will not be repeated in 2023. Vox has proposed a change of strategy in its preparation of lists for the 23-J and will avoid, among other points, signing independent candidates with a "mediatic" profile, as happened with the State lawyer Macarena Olona, who broke almost a year ago with the party of Santiago Abascal and triggered the worst organic crisis experienced by the formation to date.

With just over 40 days to go until the general elections, Vox is working like a perfectly oiled machine in the design of its electoral roadmap. The advance executed by Pedro Sánchez, like the rest of the parties, surprised Vox, but sources of the party's leadership assure that the inertia that they still maintain of the 28-M gives strength to the formation for the main electoral appointment of the course, and in which Vox aspires to consolidate itself as an inescapable piece for the PP, as happened two weeks ago at the local and regional level.

Thus, after having structured lists to present themselves in about 2,000 municipalities and include in them some 36,000 candidates, Vox now sees it much easier to complete the 52 provincial lists that will compete on 23-J. Some lists based largely on the parliamentary network that Vox already has and that will seek to accommodate in its first positions the majority of the 52 national deputies that have made up the parliamentary group this legislature.

The candidacies will be completed by well-known faces of the party in the territorial panorama, new incorporations and independent profiles, but without outstanding public relevance, as is the case of Olona, signed in March 2019, who ended up becoming the spearhead of Vox in Congress and who was even head of the list in the Andalusian elections of June 2022.

His disagreements with the leadership of the formation in that campaign, precisely, were the trigger for his break with the party. Now, the former leader of Vox tries to collect the necessary endorsements to present herself with a new brand founded by her, Caminando Juntos, conceived as a "transversal party of marked social character". In Vox they downplay Olona's project and rule out that it can steal votes.

As reported by EL MUNDO, Vox made the decision at the end of 2022 to make the regional lists with unknown profiles to date – such as the current vice president of Castilla y León – for the top positions of the candidacies. Prominent deputies, yes, were elected to the municipal lists and will be able to combine their new municipal role with the seat, if they keep it, as is the case of Inés Cañizares, parliamentarian for Toledo, among others.

The proposal to prepare the lists, they explain in the formation, part of the provincial executive committees and needs the approval of theNational Executive (CEN) of Vox. The deadline for its presentation to the Central Electoral Board (JEC) ends this Wednesday, and Vox plans to make them public at the beginning of the week.

As for the design of the campaign, the management of Vox is already working its planning. The format used for the 28-M – a decentralized campaign without grouping the leaders, with up to eight simultaneous caravans and combining acts in closed and abroad – convinces the leadership of the party, which considers that the final stretch was decisive in sealing the results obtained. Of course, voices of the device advance some "surprise".

Abascal, who kept a low profile in recent months and in the run-up to 28-M controlled his appearances, has monopolized prominence since Vox came out reinforced from the municipal and regional elections and has become the main protagonist of the party with the aim of not being cornered by the figures of Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

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