In the last general elections, the surprise was provided by Sant Jaume de Frontanyà, which went from being the second municipality to hold a referendum for independence in 2009 to being the only one where Vox won. The victory of the extreme right in the second smallest village in Catalonia was explained by an incident that had shaken the town less than a month earlier. A man of Maghrebi origin barricaded himself in the farmhouse he was occupying and began firing a pellet gun at the neighbor from the next-door farmhouse because, according to some neighbors, he was making his life impossible.