“We want to decide the next Spanish government and we believe we may have a shot at it. “VOX does not respond to any international interest, only to the interest of Spain,” Abascal said. He is also in touch with Steve Bannon, who is trying to unite Europe’s far-right ahead of the May 2019 European elections, although he said VOX would not become a satellite for the movement run by Donald Trump’s former campaign strategist. And, finally, we have the party that Cruz sent a supportive video message to. He said he had established contact with France’s National Rally and Germany’s Alternative for Germany, among others, and is an admirer of Italy’s Matteo Salvini despite the League’s backing for Catalan independence. It was largely with these groups that Steve Bannon created the Movement, which never moved beyond media hype. SOVEREIGN STATESĪbascal, who is against a federal Europe but would be happy with a union of sovereign states, and would keep Spain in the euro, is also trying to make headway abroad. In 2017, it won seats in 14 of the 16 German state parliaments and 93 seats in the Bundestag, becoming the country’s third-largest party. Abstract: Spain, among the countries hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The significant role played by the Islamic past in Spanish nationalist. VOX IN THE AGE OF COVID-19: THE POPULIST PROTEST TURN. The Alternative for Germany party won seven seats in the 2014 European election. Islam and Nationalism on Medieval Iberia. Now, it has the upper hand in a ruling coalition and the latest opinion polls put it at around 30 percent, overtaking its coalition partner, the 5-Star Movement, as the country’s most popular party. While they often achieved poor results initially, they used the European Parliament to make headway with less radical voters.Īt the last European Parliament elections in 2014, the League scored barely 6 percent of the Italian vote. The party’s paid-up membership has doubled to around 13,000 in the past four months. VOX is fond of Instagram and says a lot of voters have come to it through Whatsapp. VOX also uses social media a lot, because without parliamentary representation, traditional media has not paid it much attention. In September alone more than 100 street events were held in Madrid and earlier this month 10,000 people attended a rally to showcase VOX’s new political manifesto. They explain how VOX would break up “the system”, its name for Spain’s political and financial elite, suspend the political autonomy of the regions, scrap a law that protects women from domestic violence, and better safeguard Spain’s borders. After the unexpected surge that Spain's far-right party Vox had on last Sunday's elections, the hand of the mythical Steve Bannon, one of the architects of Donald Trump's triumph in the 2016 election, was apparent. In Madrid, dozens of party sympathizers give up their weekends to staff information desks in the streets of targeted neighborhoods - upscale and working class - to engage voters. And in a bid to emulate the swift rise of upstart Spanish parties Podemos and Ciudadanos, VOX is betting on the grass roots to get its message out.
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