Nine reasons why Iustitia Europa wants to make the leap to the general elections to take four seats in Madrid

Iustitia Europa has decided to focus on Madrid in light of the possibility of running in the upcoming general elections. The party chaired by lawyer Luis María Pardo interprets the NC Report survey, which attributes four seats in the Community of Madrid to them, as a sign of the electoral potential of a project that presents itself as transversal and focused on the reform of institutions.

Pardo has publicly responded to the reactions provoked by the survey and has explained the reasons why Iustitia Europa believes it can have electoral space in Madrid. The party maintains that it does not intend to present itself as a right-wing or left-wing option and that its goal is to attract voters from different parties, as well as people who currently abstain.

These are the nine reasons put forward by Iustitia Europa:

1. "Votes do not belong to any party"

Pardo rejects that Iustitia Europa could be "taking votes" from other parties. His argument is that votes belong to citizens and not to the parties that received them in previous elections.

The party believes that its potential electorate is transversal and that this characteristic explains part of the concern that, in its view, the survey has provoked among traditional political forces.

2. It does not consider itself a right-wing or left-wing party

The second reason is related to the previous one. Iustitia Europa denies that its entry into the elections will result in a fragmentation of the right because it claims that it does not belong to that political space.

Pardo asserts that his party could attract former voters from right and left options, as well as abstainers. In his message, he also recalls the precedent of the elections in which right-wing parties assumed they had victory before going to the polls.

3. The NC Report survey was conducted specifically in Madrid

Iustitia Europa defends the methodology of the survey that attributes four deputies to it. According to Pardo, the party commissioned NC Report a professional demoscopic job and claims that the study included 1,200 interviews conducted specifically in Madrid.

The objective, he explains, was to measure more accurately the support for an emerging party that could be diluted in a national survey.

4. The party claims it has grown from scratch

Pardo recalls that Iustitia Europa began its electoral activity approximately two years ago with a testimonial representation in the polls and that since then it has increased its public presence.

The president of the formation attributes this growth to the work developed during this period and considers that the survey is only "the photograph of a specific moment," so he rules out that the four seats can be taken for granted.

5. The PP would be the party most affected by its entry

This is one of the most relevant data from the survey for Iustitia Europa. According to the data provided by Pardo, 51.2% of potential voters for Iustitia Europa would come from the PP, while 13.6% would have previously voted for Vox and 9.2% for Sumar or Podemos.

Based on this data, the formation places the PP as the party that could suffer the greatest transfer of votes if Iustitia Europa finally runs in the general elections in Madrid.

Pardo also questions the criticisms received from Vox and compares the situation with that experienced by Santiago Abascal's own formation when it began to compete electorally with the PP.

6. The four seats are not, according to Pardo, the main objective

Iustitia Europa maintains that the figure of four deputies is secondary compared to the support that, according to the survey, some of its proposals would have.

Among them, it places judicial independence, the depoliticization of institutions, the elimination of subsidies to political parties, term limits, and greater citizen control.

Pardo assures that some of these measures would exceed 80% support in the polling study.

7. The formation wants to turn these reforms into its main electoral space

Iustitia Europa proposes its possible candidacy for the general elections around a series of institutional reforms. The formation believes that there is a part of the electorate that wants to modify the current functioning of the political system, beyond the traditional divisions between left and right.

In this approach, Madrid appears as a territory with enough electoral weight to verify if that discourse can translate into parliamentary representation.

8. Pardo questions whether the major parties will assume those reforms

The president of Iustitia Europa poses a question: if some of these reforms have high social support, why does no party take them to their ultimate consequences?

Pardo argues that the answer may be related to the very functioning of the party system and the interests of the formations that participate in it. It is one of the main lines of argument with which Iustitia Europa aims to differentiate itself from the rest of the candidacies.

9. The formation wants to turn Vox's criticisms into a debate about proposals

The last of the reasons has to do with the open confrontation with Vox after the publication of the survey. Pardo claims that he is surprised that leaders and accounts linked to the party dedicate efforts to attacking Iustitia Europa instead of debating its proposals.

The leader maintains that the best way to "deactivate" his formation would be for other parties to assume its reforms, improve them, and bring them to the institutions. In that scenario, he assures, Iustitia Europa would be the first to celebrate it.

Madrid, first electoral exam

The approach of Iustitia Europa thus involves turning Madrid into the main stage to measure its growth capacity. The NC Report survey places the formation with four seats, although Pardo himself insists that it is an electoral snapshot and not a forecast of results.

The formation must now decide whether to transform that demoscopic support into a candidacy for the general elections. Its strategy involves presenting itself as a transversal option and placing institutional reforms, judicial independence, and the limitation of party power at the center of its program.

Pardo summarizes that strategy with one idea: the goal, he claims, is not for Iustitia Europa to replace PP, Vox, PSOE, or Podemos, but for the reforms demanded by its electorate to reach Parliament.