Spain long considered immune to European populism, sees the emergence of a far-right party. So what's behind the rise?
Spain, long considered immune to the populist wave sweeping Europe, has seen a populist surge by the Vox Party even though the Socialist Workers Party won Sunday’s elections in Spain.
The People’s Party won the 2016 elections and became quickly engulfed in a constitutional crisis over the Catalan issue. When regional elections were held in Catalonia in December 2017 the then ruling People’s Party lost more than 75 percent of its seats, dropping from eleven to four and damaging its credibility.
Vox, however, has seemingly not appealed to new voters. Instead, a 15 point drop in the share of the votes from the People’s Party seemed to have benefited Vox. In the past, the main right-wing People’s Party would have attracted far-right voters. A recent study found that more 40 percent of Spanish people would vote for a party whose main aim is to reduce migration and the Vox Party seems to have captured that sentiment. No place more so than in Andalusia, where in December 2018 it garnered more than 10 percent of the vote when it previously held only 0.5 percent.
Cultural schisms and how “political elites have adapted to the language of homosexuality, feminism and transexual debates” have often left traditional sometimes older voters disenfranchised says, Enriquez.Divisions between parties on the right and a fear on the left that more extreme parties could enter into government helped, in particular, the PSOE to become the largest party after losing three general elections.
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