Natalia Puga Pontevedra
Pontevedra
Updated Monday, February 12, 2024-19:14
Elections 18-F Pontón launches its project for a government without mention of "sovereignty to decide" that its program includes
The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, has fully entered the Galician campaign by giving his support to the Vox candidacy for the February 18 elections. In the last few hours, he has shared a message from Santiago Abascal's party on the social network
The vote of the emigrant population could be key next 18F, since there is a record number of 476,514 people residing abroad called to vote, 17.7% of the census. If the figures from the
July 23 elections
are confirmed
, they may decide a deputy and, in the current context of the poll war, it may become decisive.
The Vox message shared by the leader of the political space La Libertad Avanza insists precisely on that, that "
Milei
voters can be decisive in the Galicia elections" and that is why they encourage all those who in 2023 gave their vote to that they now opt for "the ballot of the party they are betting on, Vox" and its candidate,
Álvaro Diaz-Mella
. They also remember the deadlines for voting by mail and accompany the text with a photo of
Abascal
and
Milei
.
The emigrant vote, in addition, is expected to have a high participation, as these are the first regional elections without a requested vote, which required them to request the vote beforehand. Within this context, in addition, many parties look towards Argentina because it is the country with the most voters, 166,289.
Milei
is the second international leader to enter this electoral race highlighting the importance of the emigrant vote. He premiered it in the first week of the campaign by the former president of Uruguay,
Pepe Mújica,
asking for the vote for the BNG. In his case, he opted for a video in which he called on Galicians on both sides of the Atlantic to vote for his candidate,
Ana Pontón.
The Uruguayan states that "the political future of
Galicia
" matters in his country, in which "too much Galician blood runs in our veins." He feels "twinned with the BNG" and asks "all like-minded people" to support "with warmth, not only with the vote, but with the heart, this challenge that Galicia faces."
The leader of Sumar,
Yolanda Díaz,
also entered the dispute over that Argentine vote and, through her social networks, broadcast a video in which, "as a Galician," she asked all those who have the option to vote from that country that they exercise their right because "we are very close to getting
Milei
's friends
to leave the
Xunta
."