Overview
- The leaders held a high‑visibility precampaign event in Madrid on Tuesday that Abascal framed as an "alianza en lo esencial" and that publicly sealed closer coordination between Vox and France's Agrupación Nacional.
- Bardella tied the July mass entry in Ceuta to Spain's migrant regularisation policy and described that regularisation as an "efecto llamada," proposing that his party would seek Schengen reform to limit free movement for people regularised in another member state.
- Both politicians pushed for tougher border control and stronger powers for Frontex, with Bardella urging the agency to stop acting like a reception service and instead perform active border‑management duties.
- Bardella also attacked EU rules he says harm European industry, singled out the 2035 ban on new combustion cars as a mistake, and proposed preferential public procurement to shield factories from Chinese competition.
- The visit cements years of European parliamentary cooperation in the Patriots grouping and signals cross‑border electoral messaging that could influence debates on sovereignty, migration and trade before Spain's November 29 vote and France's 2027 election.