Abascal urges mobilization and asks Feijóo to rule out PSOE pact before 29 November

Campaign launch and rallies

Vox opened its national campaign on Friday, 13 November, at the Plaza de Colón in Madrid, according to eldiario.es. On Saturday, 14 November, Santiago Abascal, the party's leader and its candidate for prime minister, spoke at a midday rally in Almería's Plaza de la Constitución and at an evening event in Murcia, scheduled for 19:30 at the Príncipe de Asturias pavilion. Vox said more than 4,500 people attended the Murcia rally, about 1,000 of them outside the venue, while EL PAÍS counted almost 5,000 inside with hundreds more on the street. ABC reported that more than 4,000 people attended the Almería event, a figure it attributed to the organizers. Before Abascal spoke in Murcia, Joaquín Robles, who heads the Senate list, and José Manuel Pancorbo, who leads the Congress candidacy, addressed the crowd.

A now or never election

In Almería, Abascal told supporters that the party faced no greater enemy than the polls at this moment, even though surveys were opening the door to change, and he called for a 'gigantic mobilization' to remove what he termed 'the Sánchez mafia'. He said the 29 November vote was not just another election.

“There is no worse enemy than confidence. There is no worse enemy than apathy.”

He warned supporters against complacency despite favorable polling and said the stakes could not be higher.

“We are staking everything, and we can say without any fear of exaggeration that it is now or never.”

Abascal linked Sánchez's decision to call an early election to what he described as the prime minister's personal interest amid ongoing judicial investigations. He cited alleged illegal financing of the PSOE, what he called 'opaque' accounts within the party, and recent police and judicial action at the Ministry of Equality and the Court of Audits.

Ultimatum to Feijóo

EL PAÍS reported that Abascal wants PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo to rule out publicly any post-election agreement with the PSOE, which Abascal called 'the remnants of the PSOE'. The PP and Vox already govern together in Extremadura, Aragón, Castilla y León and Andalucía, and the two parties agreed a pre-electoral pact for the Senate. Abascal fears Feijóo could try to govern alone after 29N, seeking Socialist abstention or shifting coalitions issue by issue. In an interview with EL PAÍS on 8 November, Feijóo said the best option for Spain was a PP government alone with a comfortable majority, backed by support deals with Vox, which he called the third political force.

“The PP has to answer this question very clearly before 29 November.”

In Ceuta, president Juan Vivas governs with PSOE support and non-attached deputies and has refused to pact with Vox, fearing a deeper split after a mass entry of migrants in summer 2026. EL PAÍS noted that Vox has made Ceuta its main campaign banner, yet the party is politically marginal in the city itself.

Attacks on the government

Abascal described the Sánchez government as a lying mafia that misled its own members, voters and Spaniards about its pacts with Bildu, pro-independence and communist parties, and about the amnesty law and pardons. He said it was corrupt down to the driver, naming Ábalos, Koldo and Cerdán. He accused the government of selling national sovereignty to the highest bidder and of handing national interest to Morocco, calling Sánchez the Moroccan candidate in the general election. In Murcia, he linked corruption and what he called green fanaticism to deadly accidents in Adamuz (Córdoba) and in Toledo province. He also argued that the government, which presents itself as the defender of public services, had destroyed the railway, road, hospital and education networks.

Regional pitch and vote split

Abascal asked voters who disagreed with Vox's main proposals to back the PP instead, while those who want common sense, national priority, remigration and deregulation should vote Vox, according to ABC. He said Vox was not satisfied with how far its agreements with the PP had gone in regional governments, though the two parties had understood each other in Andalucía, Castilla y León, Aragón and Extremadura. In Ciudad Rodrigo, Carlos Pollán, president of the Vox parliamentary group in Castilla y León, called for a massive turnout and described the vote as decisive. Pollán said the PP-Vox deal in Castilla y León is working and argued that Vox's presence in regional governments had advanced policies on immigration, national priority and deregulation.