Abascal relies on Meloni, Le Pen, Milei and Bolsonaro at the start of "existential" elections: "We are raising a unitary flag"

Vox was playing at home today. "Welcome to our Plaza de Colón", is the first thing that was heard at the event with which Santiago Abascal's party opened its electoral campaign. Under a dark Madrid night, more than 1,500 people waved the little Spanish flags that the group had distributed among the attendees, who did nothing but time the great national flag that presides over the square. And, once the framework was set, only the message remained: "We are heirs of a homeland that is worth it," Abascal launched, presenting his candidacy for the Presidency of the Government as "a common sense alternative that can give hope to the Spanish people."

Because that is what Vox is looking for in these elections, to agitate for a proposal that can provide shelter to the widest range of voters. "In these elections we are not raising an ideological flag, of right versus left, we are raising a much more unitary flag, which is that of common sense," Abascal explained, justifying this call for "unity" in that, in his opinion, those of November 29 are "existential" elections for the country. "We probably risked everything."

"We are going to absolutely decisive elections for Spain," said Abascal, who has extended the significance of the November 29 elections to Europe and even the world. That is why Vox has not only relied on hundreds of supporters to give the 'starting shot' to its campaign, but has also turned to international leaders, many in power, with whom Abascal has forged an alliance in recent years and who are today a fundamental leg of Vox's strategy.

The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni; the French leader Marine Le Pen; former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban; the president of Argentina, Javier Milei; and the Brazilian leader Flavio Bolsonaro - who fled to the US after his electoral defeat -, among others, have sent a message of support to Abascal that was projected before his intervention. "I would very much like to be able to collaborate with you on another level," said Meloni, one of the most relevant leaders of a string of leaders who participated virtually in the rally, and among whom there was only one notable absence: Donald Trump.

Also surrounded by the highest institutional officials of the party, its four regional vice presidents, and a good part of the party's senior staff, Abascal has called for a "massive mobilization" under the conviction that his theses have support that goes beyond the right. "We probably reach out to those who don't think what we think," he has even said.

Thus, Abascal has extended his banner of "common sense" even to what are his most extreme theses: to "say enough to the migratory invasion." "That means defending Spaniards and immigrants who came to Spain asking for permission," he argued, pointing out that his proposal to deport "criminals, rapists, murderers" and those who "do not contribute" to the Spanish economy "is not a phobia for anyone." "It's justice, common sense," he explained, before fifty young people dressed in a t-shirt that showed that motto. The motto with which Vox will seek, 29-N, is an option that they support beyond the right-wing electorate.