Its recent success is no longer a story of just male voters, either: 20% of young women say they would vote for Vox, with the biggest increase among the youngest voters in that group.What's the attraction? Could it be their policies, which include:
...the mass expulsion of immigrants in order to preserve “Spanish identity”, the restriction of abortion, end-of-life and trans rights, the dismantling of the European Union’s institutions and the rejection of policies to tackle the climate crisis...?
All of those, but especially restriction of immigrants and restriction on 'trans rights' ( which itself is coded language for allowing disturbed men into female spaces) likely to resonate with women more than men.
Amid all the hand-wringing in Spain about the latest far-right insurgency, one thing is clear: the solution is not going to be found by moving the political centre of gravity rightward.
'No, onwards with the Left wing policies, no surrender!' That seems very unlike a winning strategy to me, Maria.
What else can the mainstream political class do – particularly on the left, which traditionally counted on the support of progressive young adults?
To what do you attribute this surge of right wing enthusiasm, anyway? Well, would you believe, Reader, it's all down to squabbling politicians?
Yet it is now hard to find a politician from either of the two largest parties in national and regional government – those who bear the greatest responsibility – willing to pause before attacking a rival, even when the facts are still unclear.
Yes, that's the attitude of socialists - 'don't let the proles see mummy and daddy fighting, ir upsets them'
Parties in Spain are notoriously hard to change. But we’ve seen it done before. Pedro Sánchez enacted change within his own party, and progressive new parties managed to break bipartisanship and (briefly) seemed poised to define the future.
And the young saw the future the Left were describing and said 'no thanks!' en masse.
