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Let Txapote vote for you

Spanish political slogan

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Source revisionSep 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ120640520 ↗
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"Let Txapote vote for you" (Spanish: ¡Que te vote Txapote!; full version: ¡Que te vote Txapote, Sánchez!, "Let Txapote vote for you, Sánchez!") is a political slogan that is popular among the political right and far-right in Spain during the months prior to the 2023 general elections. It is commonly used against Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and mentions the ETA terrorist Francisco Javier García Gaztelu (nicknamed "Txapote").

Political context

After the general elections of November 2019 and the start of the 14th legislature, acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) required the abstention of the leading political parties of the nationalist left, the Catalan ERC and Basque EH Bildu, in order to form his second government during the January 2020 parliamentary session. This gesture, among other minor arrangements with EH Bildu, was a central element of criticism by the Spanish political right (mainly the People's Party and Vox).

Francisco Javier García Gaztelu, nicknamed "Txapote", was one of the main leaders of the Basque terrorist group ETA. He has been in prison since 2005 after being accused of committing more than a dozen murders, including those of Miguel Ángel Blanco, Gregorio Ordóñez, and Fernando Buesa.

Origin of phrase

Although it does not have a fully identified origin, its first media appearance dates from September 3, 2022, when, in a meeting between Pedro Sánchez and the public in Seville, an anonymous member of Solidaridad (a local Union tied to the Vox party), raised a banner at the meeting that read Que te vote Txapote ("Let Txapote vote for you"). Days later, Jorge Buxadé, vice president of Vox, used the phrase in a press conference.

The slogan would reach its media zenith on January 25, 2023, when the Hablando Claro television program was broadcasting live from Cazalegas (near Toledo). The topic to be discussed was the presence of a private traffic radar used by the city council, for which reason a "victim" of the radar was going to be interviewed. The interviewee was José María "Chema" de la Cierva, a photographer linked to the extreme right, son of the historian and Suárez minister Ricardo de la Cierva.

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