Spain goes to the polls to decide its next government on Sunday, and a hard-right coalition is looking likely.

The most likely government to emerge - most analysts predict - will be a coalition including a hard-right nationalist party for the first time in Spain since the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.

More left-leaning Spaniards are frantically texting contacts, urging them to make sure to vote - despite the heat and it being holiday time for many - to “stop the fascists” in their tracks.The rhetoric this election season has been toxic, with voters becoming increasingly polarised.

It’s a fight over values, traditions and about what being Spanish should mean in 2023.

This kind of heated identity debate isn’t peculiar to Spain. Think of Italy, France, Brazil or the post-Trumpian debate in the US.

At EU HQ in Brussels, there are huge concerns about a resurgence of hard-right nationalist parties across Europe.

  • Che Banana@lemmy.mlEnglish
    603·
    1 year ago

    The far right vow to “Make Spain Great Again”.

    …where have i heard this super nifty phrase before???

    Oh yeah, lets march back to where they would pick you up in the middle of the night, handcuff, blindfold then chuck you off a cliff.

    Great times.

    As if our little town just didn’t lay to rest the remains of some such people less than a year ago.

    • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      253·
      1 year ago

      where have i heard this super nifty phrase before???

      Exactly, this. It’s very worrying

    • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      The idiots of Vox literally copy their ideology from the US far right. They are so extremely uncapable of thinking by themselves that they’re trying to capitalize on transphobia in a country that is heavily supportive of trans rights:

      As if that wasn’t enough, the mainstream right-wing party is trying to appeal to them even though their average voter isn’t that deranged out of some weird fear that they actually are.

      • diprount_tomato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        Transphobia isn’t their main point lmao

        Ik you only hear about it from second-hand sources, but their main points are usually criticizing the current government and the equality ministry, which despite its name could be qualified as little more than a glorified poster printer (printing posters with a huge budget is probably the only effective thing it does, as there has been no genuine advance in equality done by them)

        However, it’s true that they also criticize the “trans law”, which allows people to almost instantly change their legal gender, with some disgusting comments

        • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          We all heard them bring up different minorities they want to criminalize out of the blue at the debates for no good reason, no need for second hand sources for that.

          • diprount_tomato@lemmy.worldEnglish
            24·
            1 year ago

            I’ve heard the debates uncut and in the original language and nowhere it says “we must criminalise this minority”