#STEVE BANNON VOX SPAIN TV#

Over 50,000 immigrants have poured illegally into Spain this year, more than triple the flow of previous years, according to government figures.

#STEVE BANNON VOX SPAIN TV#

Over the past year, Spaniards have been exposed to TV images of boatloads of migrant Africans landing on their southern beaches and violently breaking through border fences of Spain’s territories on the North African coast. As Italy’s new populist government shuts the door on waves of immigrants seeking to enter the European Union from North Africa, Spain has suddenly become a destination of choice. Abascal said, is that Spain is just now starting to feel the impact of mass immigration, which has caused political earthquakes in Germany, Italy, Austria and a number of Eastern European countries. Francisco Franco, who was supported by the fascist La Falange movement until his death in 1975.Ī second and more pressing reason, Mr. Spain’s conservatives have been stigmatized by relatively recent memories of the dictatorship of Gen. Abascal cited two reasons why rightist reaction has been slow to take hold in Spain. “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,” he told Reuters. Abascal said he wants his party to chart its own path. Paid membership in the party has doubled to about 13,000 in the past four months, the Reuters news service reported.Īlthough he has compared notes with Mr. It has staged street rallies in Madrid - a recent one attracted 10,000 people as the party unveiled its manifesto - but it is also heavily invested in social media, Instagram and the WhatsApp online messaging service. VOX relies on the charisma of its leader as well as a mix of old and new political tactics. “He speaks with a clarity lacking in other Spanish politicians.” “They ignore Abascal at their peril,” said Jesus Zuloaga, editor of the Madrid newspaper La Razon. Some political commentators say the appeal of VOX is badly underestimated. Spanish politics in recent years has been consumed by the separatist crisis in Catalonia, while much of the country’s populist energy appeared to be on the left, harnessed by the radical socialist United We Can party as it became a virtual partner of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, head of the center-left Socialist Workers Party. Some VOX activists escaped by swimming back to Spanish territory as Gibraltar’s authorities issued an international arrest order for the leader of the raid, who happened to be Mr. The return of Gibraltar has been a longtime goal of Spanish nationalists. Abascal launched his group in 2014 by raising a 200-square-yard Spanish flag over the British colony of Gibraltar on Spain’s southern tip.

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