Opinion: For Spain’s left, no time to celebrate
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, leader of the Spain's Socialist Workers' Party, gestures to supporters after winning the general elections on April 28. By Jordi Vaquer April 29 at 5:20 PM Jordi Vaquer is the regional director for Europe at the Open Society Foundations.
Sunday’s parliamentary elections were the second act in a three-part play. The first act took place in December, when Vox, a party of the populist radical right, received votes to enter the parliament of Spain’s most populous region, Andalusia, breaking into the national political stage. Spain, which had managed to hold off the rise of populism for the past decade, had finally succumbed.
One of the most puzzling political questions is why it took the radical right so long to take hold in Spain, a country mired in territorial and economic crises for the past decade. Between 1996 and 2018, Spain’s population grew from 40 million to 47 million largely because of immigration. From 2007 to 2013, the unemployment rate surged from 8 percent to 26 percent. Unlike in other European countries, no obvious anti-immigration backlash ensued.
With advice and support from American and European far-right and neoconservative groups, Vox combined the standard menu of this ideological family with specific demands that appeal to Spain’s far right .
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