The extreme right takes a career in Europe. Vox has obtained six seats in the European Parliament after this Sunday’s voting, two more than in the last elections. The candidacy he leads Jorge Buxade has gathered 9.62% of the votes in Spain, remaining as the third force, only behind PP (34.19%) and PSOE (30.18%). The ultra party is gaining weight in Brussels, although less than its European counterparts have obtained.
“Europa Viva 24 has won the European elections. There are going to be more of us and we are going to be heard much more loudly in Brussels,” celebrated the number one of the list, Jorge Buxade. The MEP dedicated a good part of his speech to praising the victory of the European extreme right, which has come out better than the Spanish one. Marine Le Pen has swept France, doubling Macron’s liberals. In Austria, the far right also achieved a historic result, with a percentage of 25.5%. In Germany and Netherlandsthe ultras caress the first position and finish the day as second force.
In Hungary, Poland and Portugal, the extreme right also consolidates its rise. Vox has been the third party with the most votes in Spain, but far from PP and PSOE. Buxadé has criticized Ursula von der Leyen for having appeared before making the official communication. “It’s not good news. It is an absolute lack of respect and reveals their ways of doing politics,” he said. The message arrived minutes after the president of the European Comission announce a twist in the script and say that the popular They were going to be a containment dam for the extreme right. In the middle of the campaign, Von der Leyen He had left the door open to agree with Giorgia Meloni.
“Vox is once again the third national political force and is growing again in elections in Spain. The death certificate that our adversaries want seems to be a long time coming. The disappearance of Vox does not coincide with the wishes of the Spanish people,” he assured. Santiago Abascal. The leader of the ultra formation has also highlighted the “strength” of the extreme right throughout the continent.
Abascal has taken advantage of his intervention to charge against the “autocrat of Pedro Sánchez“and make a national reading of the results achieved by the PSOE under the umbrella of misinformation.”The President of the Government is involved in corruption up to his neck, but he will do everything possible not to respond to the Spanish. We want to ask you to reflect, to follow in the footsteps of France and Belgium and call elections”, he concluded.
This Sunday Vox obtained 1,678,218 votes throughout the country292,718 more than Add and we can together. The party, however, fell short of almost 4,000,000 votes. PP and PSOE. Abascal’s people increase almost 300,000 votes compared to the last elections, but they do not achieve the historic results of their European counterparts. Jorge Buxadé will be accompanied in Brussels by Hermann Tertsch, Juan Carlos Girauta –former of PP and Ciudadanos–, Mireia BorrasMargarita de la Pisa and Jorge Martín Frías.
The party has gone from calling for exit from the EU to rejecting the speeches “anti-europeanists” and champion the current immigration policies. Vox has been the third force in Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, La Rioja, Aragón, Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, País Valencià, Murcia, Andalusia, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands. In Galicia , Euskadi, Navarra and Catalonia, the territorial coalitions –Now PNV Republics, Together– and the alternative left – Podemos and Sumar – have left Vox off the podium.
