A phenomenon called Santiago Abascal, the candidate Vox who could not attend the debates in Spain

The veteran writer Fernando Sánchez Dragó said in various interviews that he had planned, last year, to make a book with the report to the leaders of the right divided into three parties: the PP with Pablo Casado, the citizens with Albert Rivera and Vox with Santiago Abascal. As Rivera has never responded to the 10 calls that he has pbaded and that Casado said yes, without specifying the appointment, he decided to go to Andalusia, the densely populated Spanish state where he had always won socialism.

There he found the unexpected. In the taxi, at the hairdresser's, in the little bar of the train station, the waiter of a big restaurant, literally all the ordinary people with whom he came across, we only talked about Vox and his proposals for common sense, far from the politically correct one, concerning immigration, the right to use arms, gender-based violence and especially the unity of Spain, questioned by Catalan separatism.

Sánchez Dragó says that on those days, he felt that the earth was shaking and that he was seeking to know Santiago Abascal., the leader of Vox, an austere and magnetic man, with a captivating personality for those who know him. "Although it seems strange, at that time, I felt something similar to the meeting with Jorge Semprún, who brought me to join the Communist Party," he said. . And so it is that he decided to write the book that Pedro Sanchez, to shame him for the positions of the far right of his partner, enrostró to Rivera, during the second debate for the Presidency of the Spanish Government: Santiago Abascal. Spain vertebrates, published by Editorial Planeta a few weeks ago and immediately ranked among the best sellers.

It is that, whether we like it or not, Abascal (43) is the political phenomenon of the moment. He was not able to participate in the two debates that took place this week, at RTVE and Atresmedia, because the electoral committee decided that this did not correspond because it lacked representation in Parliament. However, he was not present; in the book that Sánchez has exposed and in the mention that he also made the day before, giving his absence a spooky figure that grows out of the media, backed up in social networks, at big meetings that Vox plays in big cities of the country.

According to the polls, it would reach between 15 and 30 seats, very far from the 90 who would get the PP or 40 to which the citizens would arrive. But the truth is that ordinary people that we find on the street say something else. In the candidate's team, in dialogue with Infobae, think that "polls are wrong in everything with Vox, because our vote is transversal, of any age, origin and condition and that this is difficult to detect in conventional polls".

We even found that The indignant voters of Podemos in the previous elections today are voting, also indignant, by Vox, perhaps because it is not an ideological vote, but an anti-system and today the system "is the medium, the correction, the expert pollsters".

The little information that the right-wing leader has given to the media still arouses a lot of interest and leaves headlines. When asked what will happen to his life if Catalonia becomes independent, he answers "that this will never happen". When asked why he says that he does not want to force anyone to do anything he tries to force women not to abort, he responds that "we are not talking about the woman, but of the life that she has in the interior ".

When you want to know if he identifies with Donald Trump or Marine Le Pen, he badures that "I identify with my father, Vox is clearly Spanish, although I listen to them and that in in some cases, we agree, others do not. " And before asking for a definition of his relations with the media, explains: "We are Spain that does not need to consult surveys or read in a newspaper to know what is the speech of anyone".

Neither Abascal nor his party was particularly afraid of being unable to participate in both debates. On Tuesday evening, at the same time, they played a big event in Las Rozas, an arena near Madrid, reaffirming their position in favor of bullfighting and hunting, and prevent the entry of cameras from TV channels. Such is Vox's mistrust of the press.

The stadium was full, but the one who was not invited could only follow the event via social networks, prior to his registration. There, the Net surfers expressed their opinions on the meeting. The media interested in taking pictures had to take another signal, also proposed by Vox. It is thus that, in the perspective of the second debate, millions of Spaniards and Spaniards saw for the first time the act of Abascal, which, far from claiming to have been left out, was presented as the foreign voice to the Spanish political and media system.

Will this positioning reach you to give the hump that its fervent activists are waiting for? Will he help this indignant Spain to make his voice heard? Is the performance of the PSOE, with a good part of the population terrorized by the rise of the far right? Will there be a moment when the Spanish democracy can channel the complex dilemmas of this era without hypocrisy? ¿Or will the division deepen, the mutual mistrust, the sharp dialogue between the two Spaniards?

There are only a few hours left to know how to express deep Spain that Sunday will go to the polls in an uncertain context that shakes the electorate, vote by mail in advance or in person, access participation records.