The Rise of Far Right Populism in Spain June 11.2022 The far-right Vox party has been called far-right, anti-immigration and anti-Islam Vox has risen towards becoming Spain’s third strongest party. As a result of its success, the government can no longer accurately toward being immune to the growth of Europe’s nationalist extreme right. On the other hand, did not receive much backing when it was formed in 2013. It received barely 0.2 percent of the vote in the Spanish general elections in 2015 and 2016. Even if it is unknown how much of this movement may be ascribed to VOX’s structural existence or other factors like the epidemic and uncontrolled immigration, there seems to be a minor uptick in unfavorable sentiments related to immigration. Yet, the consequence of VOX’s development as a populist movement can be seen in Spain’s growing cultural division, which obstructs sensible discourse on population and what to handle it. In 2018, Vox’s time in the political spotlight ended abruptly. The party received 11 percent of the vote in Andalucía (Spain’s most populated region) in provincial elections that year. Vox now has 52 representatives of the Spanish Congress, three senators, four European Cabinet ministers, 55 regional parliamentarians, 526 local councilors, and five mayors. Vox has been a significant external backer of various municipal and regional administrations and serves as a “power broker.” Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español [paɾˈtiðo soθjaˈlista oˈβɾeɾo espaˈɲol] ⓘ; abbr. PSOE [peˈsoe] ⓘ) is a social-democratic[2][6] political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in government longer than any other political party in modern democratic Spain: from 1982 to 1996 under Felipe González, 2004 to 2011 under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and since 2018 under Pedro Sánchez. The PSOE was founded in 1879, making it the oldest party currently active in Spain. The PSOE played a key role during the Second Spanish Republic, being part of the coalition government from 1931 to 1933 and 1936 to 1939, when the republic was defeated in the Spanish Civil War. The party was then banned under the Francoist dictatorship and its members and leaders were persecuted or exiled; the ban was only lifted in 1977 in the transition to democracy. Historically Marxist, it abandoned the ideology in 1979.[7] [HA, HA, HA...] Like most mainstream Spanish political organizations since the mid–1980s, the PSOE has been considered by experts to have embraced a positive outlook towards European integration.[8][n. 1] The unwavering European: Spain and its place in Europe ECFR’s Coalition Explorer shows Spain to be an outlier in Europe – as it places great weight on foreign policy. But could new political turbulence thwart its ambitions once more? 5 April 2019 Spanish politicians have always been proud of the consistent Europeanism of Spanish citizens. Indeed, until recently, no political party had ever played the Eurosceptic card. New on the scene now is insurgent far-right party Vox, which entered the Andalusian parliament in December and is polling at double digits for the next general election. But even it has avoided the Eurosceptic line of attack. Regardless of their political differences, the Popular Party’s Mariano Rajoy (in government until June 2018) and the Socialist Pedro Sanchez (who became prime minister after winning a no confidence vote against Rajoy) agree that the European Union should be Spain’s main foreign policy
Resignations Over May’s Brexit Plan Throw U.K. Government Into Turmoil
Departures of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Brexit Secretary David Davis raises likelihood of leadership challenge.
The resignation of two cabinet ministers over Brexit inside 24 hours plunged U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May into a political crisis and increased the chances of a challenge to her leadership from inside her Conservative Party. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson became the second prominent supporter of Britain’s departure from the European Union to quit her government since Friday, when her cabinet agreed on a plan to have the U.K. adhere to many EU rules after Brexit. His resignation followed that of David Davis, the minister in charge of Britain’s negotiations to leave the EU. The resignations blew a fragile truce within the government and sent the British pound lower, falling 0.2% to $1.3256 and 0.3% against the euro on Monday. The political turmoil comes days ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the U.K. on Thursday and less than nine months before the country is set to leave the bloc. Mr. Johnson, a figurehead for the fervently anti-EU wing of the Conservative Party, said in a resignation letter to Mrs. May said the latest Brexit plan would keep the U.K. economy too bound by EU regulations, effectively rendering Britain “a colony.”
The Brexit dream, he said, “is dying, suffocated by needless self-doubt.” Mr. Davis, in his resignation letter, said the direction of the government’s Brexit policy “will leave us in at best a weak negotiating position, and possibly an inescapable one.” A junior minister and Brexit supporter in Mr. Davis’s department, Steve Baker, also quit. Addressing Parliament on Monday, Mrs. May said the new agreement reached by warring factions of her cabinet at her country retreat, Chequers, on Friday, “is the right Brexit deal for Britain.”
Her political future now hangs in the balance. The prime minister was already in a weakened state after losing her parliamentary majority in last year’s general election.
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