The president of the Atenea Foundation and former Vox spokesperson in Congress, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, maintains that the Castilla y León elections have evidenced the blockage of the formation, by practically repeating the same results as four years ago. Therefore, he has called for a deep internal reflection within the party and has charged against the line set by the leadership team led by Santiago Abascal, which, in his opinion, seems "locked in a bunker".
In several messages disseminated on the social network X and collected by Europa Press, Espinosa de los Monteros admits feeling "much sadness" over the data obtained by Vox in Castilla y León, where it has barely added one seat compared to those obtained four years ago. He attributes this stagnation to "a strategy as mistaken as it is incomprehensible" on the part of the party leadership.
He recalls that "in the midst of the right-wing tsunami in the world, Vox has only grown one point and one seat compared to four years ago. Then we started from scratch and had a new candidate (Juan García Gallardo); we had a lot against us, but we had a broad and welcoming party, never without problems, but cohesive and enthusiastic". Compared to that stage, he contrasts the current situation, marked by the lack of expansion.
According to the former parliamentary spokesperson, "Vox's current strategy consists of shutting itself off, attacking everything and everyone who shows not just a different criterion, but simply bewilderment at the situation they themselves have created." He considers that this attitude has been reducing the party's political space and has generated an increasingly closed internal climate.
A tactic that only reinforces "tight the ranks"
In his/her/their understanding, this way of acting only serves "to keep the ranks tight, appealing to the worst instincts of their own and hindering outward growth". In his/her/their opinion, "the current leadership shows capacity to retain, but not to broaden", and its approach seems aimed at "limiting growth, not governing so as not to get burned, locking oneself in a bunker against everyone to remain eternally in a comfortable opposition to everything".
Espinosa de los Monteros defends that "the Vox voter is still there" and that what is beginning to be questioned is precisely that strategy of the leadership, incapable of taking advantage of "the global tsunami that is coming in favor". For this reason, he demands "an internal reflection" that replaces the "reflex act of blaming everyone and the entire outside world" every time the results do not accompany.
It also recalls that Vox's leadership was confident in "silencing any criticism" with a resounding triumph in Castilla y León, but it underlines that the electoral outcome has not been the expected one. In its opinion, "there is no better time than now to carry out that necessary internal reflection." "Not to harm the party; but to prepare it to win and govern -it proclaims-. International and national circumstances never were (and perhaps never will be) so favorable. Are we going to let this opportunity pass?" it has asked, insisting on the urgency of reviewing the party's direction.