The failure of the Right in Spain, however discouraging, should not be projected onto the Right in Europe generally.
Negotiations
VOX’s program contains a battery of tax-cutting measures. In particular, it aims to incentivise family formation and child rearing by removing the tax burden on families.
“Spaniards must say what is the model of immigration control we want.”
Energy rationing.
Spain’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the strict home confinement measures imposed during a national state of emergency dealing with the first wave of Covid-19 infections in March 2020 were unconstitutional. The ruling may result in the cancellation of fines issued for breaching any of the lockdown restrictions now deemed unlawful. The strict measures introduced […]
Contreras, who is deputy leader of Vox and a professor of legal philosophy, said the decision to suspend him was “fascist biology”.
There have been few major electoral contests in the western democracies in the Age of the Lockdown. The Madrid regional elections held yesterday are the most significant, and were regarded as partly a referendum on how the Covid panic has been handled nationally by the left PSOE/Podemos government. If that was the case, the election […]
Spain’s leftist government is on a collision course with the southern state of Murcia after it announced plans to take legal action if the region’s politicians fail to withdraw a parental veto on sex education courses within a month.
Whilst Vox is being encouraged by its base to push for an exit referendum in Spain, Poland’s ruling party Law and Justice has remained silent after Supreme Court judges warned them of their apparent collision course with Brussels.
The second parliamentary elections in Spain this year have seen the biggest surge in votes for the new political party Vox, which is now the country’s third largest party. Spain has been stuck in a political deadlock since April with no clear majority to govern. With all votes now counted, Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists have won the biggest share […]