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Spanish far-right party Vox has presented candidates to run for the country’s general elections, scheduled for April 28. The party’s electoral list is topped by five former army generals.
These senior officials who served for different army corps in Spain were chosen by the leader of Vox Santiago Abascal to run for elections in the country’s electoral districts. Indeed, four retired army generals will be running in Cadiz, Alicante, Castellon and Pontevedra as well as one in Melilla.
This choice goes hand in hand with the ideology of the party, which plans to «expel all undocumented immigrants», and suspend «autonomy in Catalonia», and supports «the idea of family and traditions», Euronews said.
«Soon, dear policemen and Civil Guard agents, your voice, the voice that will never give up, will be heard at the Congress of Deputies», Vox’s Secretary-General Javier Ortega Smith told crowds on September the 29th.
A new trend hostile to Morocco
Vox is «expected to attract 270,000 votes, in addition to half a million reservists from different army corps», wrote Spanish online newspaper El Espanol in January, months before the party publishes its electoral list.
Vox's military candidates claim to be Franco's heirs. Agustín Rosety Fernández de Castro from the Spanish Navy and head of Vox’s list in the district of Cádiz is one of them. In July 2018, he signed a petition that praised Spanish general and military dictator Francisco Franco and his 1936 coup.
Hostility to Morocco is another component of this legacy. These retired army generals all share the same support for building walls separating Ceuta and Melilla from the Kingdom. The two autonomous cities are «part of the Spanish territory. If I want to defend my borders (…) I have to build a wall. Nobody is allowed to say that defending one’s borders is an unconstitutional act», Vox’s candidate in Pontevedra, General Antonio Budino, said in an interview published on April 15.
The wall is not the only project that is hostile to Morocco. In its election campaign, Vox urges «Morocco to recognize Spain’s sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla».
