Abascal displays the support of the international far-right at the start of his campaign

"Our biggest enemy is trust. The damn polls that say everything is done," the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has warned his followers. After ensuring that the elections on the 29th are “existential” for Spain, he has called for “massive mobilization” before the appointment with the polls. “If we do not manage to get rid of the plague that governs this country, our country will probably suffer too much,” he warned.

Madrid's Plaza de Colón has served as the setting for the starting signal of Vox's electoral campaign. On a cold and unpleasant night, Santiago Abascal gathered more than 2,000 people in this emblematic place of the right-wing mobilizations. The ultra leader has taken advantage of his international connections with the display of support messages recorded by his allies: the Portuguese André Ventura; the Italian Matteo Salvini; the Dutch Geert Wilders; the German Alice Weidel; the Hungarian Viktor Orbán; Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš; the French Marine Le Pen; the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has boasted of presiding over the longest-serving Government of the Italian Republic; Argentine President Javier Milei, who has called for the overthrow of Pedro Sánchez; and the former Brazilian candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, from his refuge in the United States, where he fled after losing the elections against Lula.

Abascal has winked at the ultra-Catholic electorate by praising the “praying rearguard of Spain” and has revealed that on the day of his interview in La revuelta he went to Cerro de Los Ángeles, an emblematic sanctuary of the Spanish civil war on the outskirts of Madrid, to ask the barefoot Carmelite nuns to pray for him and for Spain. Next, he described the Democratic Memory Law as the “most infectious” that has been approved in democracy and has accused the Government of resurrecting hatred and breaking affections among Spaniards.

The leader of Vox has once again questioned gender violence and has cited the recent case of a woman, “Covadonga, murdered by a Moor in Asturias”, in his words, in reference to the young woman stabbed on Thursday in Gijón by her ex-partner, of Moroccan origin. “We still have to talk about religious violence,” he said. It so happens that Vox was the only party that did not suspend its campaign, which the other political forces criticized. He has also described as an "act of unbearable shame" that "they have put the lady who is going to sit on the bench to dance and speak at the rallies", in reference to Begoña Gómez's intervention at a PSOE electoral event.

In an epic tone, he ended his speech by recalling the Reconquista, the “evangelization” of America and the war of independence to call for “recovering the freedom and unity of the Homeland” on 29-N. Like the PSOE, Vox has dressed the spectators who have taken the stage with t-shirts, in their case white, with the slogan of their campaign – “It's common sense” – in green letters.