The Far Right Appears Surprisingly in Spain

The Far Right Appears Surprisingly in Spain

By: Erreh Svaia

Caprine Dispersion

"Who controls the past, controls the future, who controls the present controls the past," George Orwell pointed out in his immortal 1984 work, a supreme criticism of totalitarian regimes, which seems to be the place where we are going nowadays, when those in power no longer seem to seek doing politics, but pretend to make history, in something that denotes a fully fascist intention, an obsession to change history, to rewrite it, to speak of an idyllic past that never existed, to denounce a decadent present and to promise a return to that "idyllic past" that seems that people have forgotten how it was in general, if we talk about Europe, a country of bloody wars between nationalist fronts.

It seemed that the phenomenon of Podemos would be enough to encapsulate the disappointed of traditional politics in Spain, and that the memory of the "Francoist" past would be enough to contain any tendency to the far right and if, like much of southern Europe ( Portugal in particular), Spain resisted the temptation of the far right for a while, but well, Syriza in Greece allied with Golden Dawn (a party labeled as neo-Nazi) and the Northern League became only the League (in a successful movement of political marketing) in Italy to reach the power of the hand of the Movement 5 stars of Beppe Grillo, in Spain, the wear of Podemos joined the old communist parties with which allied only to lose votes and not for win them, and finally they were added to the PSOE, to become part of the establishment and lose that notion of "anti-system", during the process, the PP and Ciudadanos were hit so much by their right wing vein associated with the Francoist past, that added to the localized radicalism in certain points such as Catalonia and now Andalusia, which sought to exacerbate right-wing nationalism, the final result would be that Spain already has its far right party in full rise that responds to the name of Vox.

The recent local elections in regions of Spain resulted in the loss of votes in the traditional parties and the rise of Vox, in this way, the winners were losers and the loser won in the end, taking advantage of the tremendous wear and tear of Rajoy and the Popular Party in addition to certain very focused sectors of conservative tendency that no longer wished to continue with the PP, thus of this way Vox becomes the new party "antisystem" that dethrones to Podemos and Ciudadanos in the way to demolish the traditional politics, under the shout "the Spaniards first" and with its leader Santiago Abascal to the front, and a bizarre candidate in the person of judge Francisco Serrano, the strident man who has dedicated himself to defending in the courts men "persecuted" by women of whom he calls members of "gender jihadism", so Vox becomes the unexpected Spanish surprise with a view to joining other groups of the far right wing (which undoubtedly filled the eyes of Steve Bannon with tears of joy) such as Matteo Salvini's League in Italy, the National Front of Marine Le Pen in France, the PVV of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and the AfD of Alexander Gauland in Germany , parties that have managed to steal the baton from the traditional conservative parties in their respective countries, as in the case of La Liga (which was along with Berlusconi), or flatly winding them, as in the case of the National Front in France, which crushed literally to Republicans.

The flags of Vox are not far from those of the National Front or the The League, a direct attack on migration policies and multiculturalism, the rejection of globalization, Euroscepticism and of course, nationalism as the new terrible virus and the thread of many of the movements not only in Europe, but also in America, which directly attack liberalism, democracy, free trade and globalization.