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Updated Friday, February 16, 2024-02:59

  • 18-F Javier Milei enters the Galician campaign and asks for the vote for Vox

  • Galicia Feijóo, to those who vote for a party other than the PP: "You are choosing nationalism"

Vox looks across the pond to get the last votes before the Galician campaign ends.

Santiago Abascal

, aware of the weight of the foreign vote in 18-F and the roots of the Galician population with Argentina, relies on the recent success of

Javier Milei

as the last ace up his sleeve in the final phase before the day of reflection, convinced that Vox will not only break into its worst position and defeat the polls - which deny that it will win a seat - but that it will manage to be "decisive" so that

Alfonso Rueda

revalidates control of the Xunta despite the uncertainty that shakes the PP in the last few days.

With these words the president of Vox expressed himself on the Argentine network

Radio Miter

, three days after Milei himself shared on social networks a message from Vox in which the Galicians residing in Argentina were asked to vote for those of Abascal under exactly the same pretext: these supports can end up tipping the balance and "be decisive" for the right to continue one more mandate in the Xunta.

Practically two out of every ten people called to the polls this Sunday reside abroad: 476,514 voters. Of them, practically a third are in Argentina, where Milei, close to Abascal, starred a few months ago in a historic electoral overturn that put an end to two decades of Kirchnerism. Now, Vox trusts in the historical ties that unite Galicia and Argentina to drag part of that Milei effect to the only region in which it does not have representation, despite the fact that the polls paint a not very optimistic panorama for the party, which barely surpassed 2% in 2020.

The number of voters from abroad is as significant as the number of abstentionists. Abascal has directed a good part of the campaign to that 51% of Galicians who did not go to the polling stations in 2020: "I am convinced that there are many Galicians who think like Vox," he said yesterday to encourage potential voters at the national level who They stay at home when the elections are regional.

In fact, in the last few hours the president of Vox has toughened his speech against the PP, which he accuses of "kidnapping the electorate" of the right by asking to concentrate the vote on a single option and even questioning that Vox, with very little intention of vote, will appear in the elections this Sunday. All of this to later break their electoral commitments and get closer to the postulates of the PSOE. "It applies socialist policies," said Abascal about the management of

Alberto Núñez Feijóo

and Alfonso Rueda in the Xunta: "It applies progressive policies regarding equality, gender, and transsexuality."