SPAIN: FAR-RIGHT & POPULIST POLITICS
Rise of far-right and populist political movements in Spain, including parties such as Vox, Se Acabó La Fiesta (SALF) and their impact on the Spanish electoral landscape
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Supreme Court to investigate far-right MEP Alvise for inciting communications blackout during farmer protests
EL PAÍSEl Supremo investigará a Alvise por incitar al colapso de las comunicaciones durante unas protestas agrícolas
Jul 1, 2026, 01:01 PM
Spain's Supreme Court will investigate far-right MEP Alvise Pérez for allegedly inciting a communications blackout during agricultural protests. The Criminal Chamber has opened its sixth case against the leader of the Se Acabó la Fiesta party.
Pride unleashes wave of Vox attacks, derailing its 'Le Pen-style' pivot to win LGBTIQ+ votes
EL PAÍSEl Orgullo desata una ola de ataques de Vox que trunca su giro ‘lepenista’ para ganar voto LGTBIQ+
Jul 1, 2026, 03:30 AM
Pride events have unleashed a wave of attacks from far-right party Vox, undercutting its attempt at a Le Pen-style pivot to win LGBTIQ+ votes. Party officials, amid efforts to shed its homophobic image, described the demonstrations as 'ridiculous theater' and 'of dubious taste'.
Half of conservative LGBTI+ people fear for their rights if Vox entered government
EL PAÍSLa mitad de las personas LGTBI+ conservadoras ve peligrar sus derechos si Vox entrase en el Gobierno
Jun 30, 2026, 02:51 PM
Half of conservative LGBTI+ people in Spain fear their rights would be endangered if Vox entered government, according to the 'LGBTI+ State 2026: Rights' study. NGOs are seen as key in the fight for equality, followed by the government and the EU.
Vox asks Central Electoral Board to bar postal voting for Spaniards living abroad
EL PAÍSVox pide a la Junta Electoral Central que se prive del derecho a votar por correo a los españoles residentes en el extranjero
Jun 30, 2026, 01:21 PM
Spain's far-right Vox has asked the Central Electoral Board to bar postal voting for Spaniards living abroad. PP leader Feijóo demanded that the 'grandchildren law' be halted, accusing Sánchez of seeking to 'manufacture two and a half million' new voters.
The PP's unacceptable insinuations
EL PAÍSInaceptables insinuaciones del PP
Jun 30, 2026, 12:53 PM
An El País editorial criticizes Spain's conservative Popular Party (PP), arguing that by echoing Vox's rhetoric about an imaginary electoral fraud, leader Feijóo helps erode an electoral process he should be the first to defend. It calls the insinuations unacceptable.
Vox boasts that Llorca's budget will be 'the first in Spain' to explicitly include 'national priority'
EL PAÍSVox se jacta de que los presupuestos de Llorca serán “los primeros en España” que incluyan expresamente la “prioridad nacional”
Jun 29, 2026, 02:48 PM
Spain's far-right Vox boasted that the budget of regional leader Llorca would be the first in Spain to explicitly include the concept of 'national priority'. Vox's spokesman in the Valencian parliament presented amendments, many negotiated with the conservative PP, while the left accused the regional president of serving Vox leader Abascal in order to govern.
Vox takes over powers on unaccompanied migrant minors in three regions
EL PAÍSVox se hace ya con las competencias sobre los menores migrantes no acompañados en tres comunidades tras las cesiones del PP
Jun 6, 2026, 03:30 AM
Far-right Vox councillors assume decision-making power over unaccompanied foreign children and adolescents in three Spanish regions.
Junts Tests a New Identity in Manresa
EL PAÍSExperimento Manresa
Mar 17, 2026, 04:30 AM
The Catalan pro-independence party Junts is experimenting in Manresa with a delicate political balancing act: combining its traditional centre-right, law-and-order message inherited from the old Convergència with a new ideological varnish designed to compete against the far right. The exercise reveals internal tensions between the party's conservative roots and its electoral ambitions in a changing political landscape. Whether the two identities can coexist remains the central question of what analysts are calling the "Manresa experiment."