![]() Within Vox, many supporters had expressed concern that the show of right-wing force could mobilize the left on election day.Īt 10.30pm with almost 80% of the vote counted, Ortega left the hotel to encourage the hundreds of Vox supporters – many of them young – who had gathered near the hotel at Madrid’s Margaret Thatcher square, to watch the results on a large television screen. As the vote was counted, the room where Vox leaders were following the results was firmly shut, and the few who left did so with long faces. Once the polls closed, Rocío Monasterio, the head of Vox in Madrid, appeared before the press to say that “there would be many Vox deputies” in the new Congress.” At that time, Vox’s number one candidate for Barcelona, Ignacio Garriga, predicted that the party would win 70 seats – the same number the anti-austerity party Podemos won at the 2016 election. More than 280 journalists – many from the foreign press – asked for accreditation for the event, but only 84 were able to fit in the small press room. ![]() Vox chose to celebrate the election results at the Fénix Hotel, an establishment on the corner of Colón square in Madrid, a stone’s throw from the headquarters of the PP. Support for Vox at this year’s election was more than 50 times greater than that seen at the 2016 polls Instead, Vox received fewer seats than the 29 to 37 predicted by the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) voter intention survey. ![]() Abascal argued that the polls had underestimated support for Vox, as in December’s Andalusian regional election, and bragged that many pollsters would have to shut down for failing to accurately predict the rise of the far-right party. While the result should be cause for internal celebration, Vox leaders had raised expectations so high that it came as a disappointment. From having no congressional representation, the far-right party now has 24 deputies in Congress. Support for Vox at this year’s election was more than 50 times greater than that seen at the 2016 polls. “Spain is worse today than yesterday,” he said. Javier Ortega Smith, the secretary general of Vox, said the two parties were “incapable of throwing out the sectarian left from the Spanish government.” Meanwhile, Vox leader Santiago Abascal said that the sole responsibility for the poor result lay with the “inability, disloyalty, betrayal and fear” of the “cowardly right,” in reference to the PP, for not opposing the left when it had 186 deputies under former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and handing over “television, media and education to the dictatorship of progressives.”Ībascal admitted the election result was a source of “joy but also concern” because the right-wing bloc did not win enough votes to “get rid of the Popular Front,” a term he used to allude to the Socialist Party (PSOE), Unidas Podemos (UP) and the pro-independence parties, who are likely to reach a deal to form government. Vox leaders blamed this failure on its rivals, the PP and Ciudadanos, for dividing the right. The deputy secretary of legal action for Vox, Marta Castro, said that regardless of his political intentions, the journalist’s statements “attack and harm the religious sentiments of many citizens.Vox leaders blamed this failure on its rivals, the PP and Ciudadanos, for dividing the right “The Valley of the Fallen is an (obscenity),” the journalist said during his rant before he proposed: “Why don’t we go in there with dynamite and blow it all up? If it could be on a Sunday, so much the better.” Spanish journalist Héctor de Miguel from Cadena SER, a PRISA Group radio station, was cited in a legal complaint for a hate crime and for offending religious sentiments, covered in Articles 524–526 of the country’s penal code, because during a radio program he encouraged blowing up the abbey in the Valley of the Fallen with dynamite. ![]() The complex is the site of the largest cross in the world. The Vox political party in Spain has filed a complaint against a journalist who encouraged blowing up the basilica and abbey located on the grounds of the Valley of the Fallen memorial complex northwest of Madrid.
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