When Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain’s Vox party, was asked to explain its recent success, he said it was because it was “in step with what millions of Spaniards think.” Vox has been condemned as far-right and populist, anti-immigration and anti-Islam. (Gee, now where have we heard THAT before?)
BBC (h/t Maria J) But the 42-year-old Basque says instead it “defends the constitutional order, constitutional reform in some areas, the unity of Spain and centralisation of the state, and wants immigration to be brought under control”.
The party proposes to “Make Spain great again” and critics have described its ideology as a far right racist, nationalist throwback to Francisco Franco.
Vox’s leaders reject the far-right label, insisting it is a party of “extreme necessity” rather than extremism and its overall support for Spain’s membership of the EU differentiates it from many populist and far-right movements across Europe.
Many Vox policies, particularly on immigration, and its frequently voiced hostility to Islam, have drawn comparisons with far-right and populist parties elsewhere in Europe.
For a long time after its foundation in 2014, Vox struggled to make an impact on the Spanish political landscape. But ever since it filled a Madrid sports centre with 10,000 supporters last month, the party has been taken much more seriously.
A Jesuit school which had agreed to host the Vox rally in Valencia changed its mind, apparently concerned at the party’s reputation, causing the event to be moved elsewhere.
In the past few months and years, Vox has taken part in several meetings with Marine Le Pen’s French Rassemblement National (formerly known as National Front) and other parties in theEurope of Nations and Freedom (ENF) group.
Javier Ortega Smith of VOX gives stirring speech in Ceuta after 600 illegal alien Muslim invaders breach border fence:
Populism in Europe has often been equated with racism. But there is a difference. These are not people who are opposed to people of color, that is, Africans or other brown skinned people. To the contrary. Europeans in general are known to be very tolerant of their new “guests” and of people in general. And Europe doesn’t have the long legacy of slavery and stratification and discrimination that so dominates in American culture. Europe outlawed slavery early compared to the Americas. So thus they don’t have that baggage. This isn’t racism, at least not entirely. Of course, there are racists and bigots everywhere, but this movement isn’t about race.
These people are only trying to defend themselves and their communities and to protect something of who they are as a community and the things they have worked to hard for.
My mother, an African American woman, went to Germany, and she was treated like royalty in Germany.
Spain was a different story, however, but I suspect that even then in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s that Spain had already had their fill of these unwanted “guests” and pests. My mother and her Pakistani friend were treated like the plague in Spain. But now I see why my poor mother and her friend were treated so badly. The Spanish were not used to nice and decent African and central Asian peoples, only the thugs and hooligans, rowdies, and Islamic shit disturbers, and they thought that my mother and her friend were part of them. They didn’t know the difference. Both my mother and her Pakistani friend are Christian for one thing. But they didn’t know.
Kudos to you for your heartfelt post relating your mother’s experiences in Europe. Very interesting reading and much appreciated. Cheers.
“And Europe doesn’t have the long legacy of slavery and stratification and discrimination that so dominates in American culture. ”
Well, you should admit that slavery was European made, and not American. Also that the Africans, the black natives, were highly responsible as well.
Germany indeed had welcomed foreign immigration to help supply labor for the large industry. These persons had earned a decent life through hard work and good wages. A wonderful coexistence.
Making Spain great again is something of concern, my opinion. How great? Above all, from which century are we speaking. The legacy is not especially positive. Plundering Kingdom, or military dictatorship? Get rid of the communists, and let Spain be itself, and try to prosper from itself. My opinion.
The first slave traders were Arabs.
RIGHT!!
U.S born on the mixing of the reject of the races, cultures and religions of all the world, that’s why U.S. is a shitty land and can’t go on and exists anymore, multi-race multi-culture countries can’t live longer because are just toilets with no laws everybody wanna impose on everybody, the mixing makes as result a HELL.
You don’t have a race and a culture, you have no race and no face, unlike us Europeans who have specified races and cultures, that’s why Europe is made by many countries of different races of different histories and different cultures.
Diversity is wonderful !
Then the first immigrants and settlers who come to U.S. were the Brishit hookers and prisoners that’s why Americans are so over obsessed on violence and pornography, from our ancestors we inherit not only the colour and features but the BEHAVIOUR TOO you took the savage muslum Brishit dna
people of all colours and shapes in U.S. are forced to live on the shitty Brishit culture, into shit.
That’s why Americans are so intolerant and naziracist.
Are you being serious? So Europe has no Muslims or Africans? You are so f*cking stupid and ignorant! A “naziracist” is what you are fool! Stop drinking and writing incoherent psycho messages on the internet.
And if Europe is still so great, why is it filled with muzzslimes? Once great countries are now like the way you describe the US. The death of Western Europe is near. How can people be so blind? Living in a past that no longer exists and with little chance it can ever return to the great Nations that had comprised that part of the world. Extremely delusional….
It’s filled with muzzturds because YOU Americans take it here en mass to hurt us you are so desperate and feel so much jealousy toward us you’re desperately missing a identity that you will NEVER have!
U.S. is dying and your psyco leaders know it and don’t accep it don’t accept to die lonely you wanna kill all Earth and bring to grave all the world fucking psycos you behave like talibans!
Marta, you are a fool.
Your writing is typical of the thanks the US received for saving Western Europe in WW II.
I applaud Abascal’s efforts to make Spain great again (will I be able to buy MSGA merchandise?). But to make this work, Spain had better cut itself free from the UN.
Abascal is clearly Arab look at his face like the majority of Spaniards, so “Make Spain Great Again” means “Let’s Make Spain Totally Muslum”.
It’s the way Abascal wanna remember what his taliban ancestors did in Shitspain!
Marta, you know, not everyone with a beard is a Muslim.
VOX PARTY
President Santiago Abascal Conde
Founded 17 December 2013
Ideology Spanish nationalism
Social conservatism
Economic liberalism
Political Catholicism
Centralism[1]
National conservatism
Soft Euroscepticism[2]
Monarchism
Political position Right-wing
Religion Roman Catholicism
Santiago Abascal Conde (born 14 April 1976) is a Spanish sociologist and conservative politician, who has been the leader of the right-wing Vox since September 2014. He is a former member of the Basque Parliament, and founder of the Foundation for the Defense of the Spanish Nation.
Personal life and education
Abascal was born in Bilbao. He went on to study sociology at the University of Deusto, completing the degree in 2003. He is the father of four children, two of them with the Spanish maternity blogger Lidia Bedman[1]. Abascal is well-known lover of nature and is a long-time member of the Spanish Ornithological Society.[2]
Political career
Abascal first served in the Basque Parliament from January 2004 to February 2005 representing Álava. He later served again in the parliament from October 2005 to January 2009.
Initially a member of the People’s Party since 1994 Abascal later helped to found a new right-wing party. Both Abascal’s father and grandfather were local politicians in the Álava area.[3] Subsequently, he was elected as the president of Vox in September 2014.[4]
I repeat FACE, damn look at his face of chimp features, tipically face of black people( Arabs, Africans, South East Asians….) not the beard 😂 Jesus!
In his case it’s a Arab face he can pass of as Arab in Northern Africa and Middle East not European! I live in Europe and we Europeans don’t have that ugly face!
He’s just a Spaniard of Arab background !
Obviously been him raised in Spain he identify himself as a Spaniard.
Marta, So, prove it. It is not obvious to anyone but you.
Ignorant, you do not know the history of Spain and you allow yourself to write nonsense. To begin with, only 3% have some genetics from North Africa and the Middle East.
The Spanish Muslim culture is quite different from the rest since it was part of the ancient Visigoths and other peoples of Hispania who converted to Islam.
The old Spanish followed the line of blood, and to distinguish them from the others, they were called old Christians.
Here came Celts, Vandals, Alans, Visigoths, Greeks, Romans, etc.
IGNORANT I’m a Southern Italian of Northern Spaniard background you’re so ignorant to ignore it shitty mestizo!
My maternal granfather was called Raimondo Mulas a Southern “Italian” of Northern Spaniard blood as Northern Spaniard he had black hair and black eyes on white skin on European features. His ancestors came from Aragon and Castilla y Leon to South Italy in the XIII and ruled it so badly for too much centuries you fucking Spaniards brought your fucking shitty muslum culture to South Italy.
SHUT UP TURD!!!
You Spaniards are more Arabs than Europeans as race and as culture the proofs are your features, culture and behaviour, you’re dark of toilet taliban faces, noisy, naziracist, violent, filthy, stinky, poor and backward.
The horrific way you treat dogs and cats especially dogs into perreiras you took it from Arabs who hate dogs who ruled Shitspain for 800 years so looooooong years and you claim to have just 3% of their fucking blood hahahahaha!!
You’re 90% Arabs!!
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!
WONDERFUL HERO who seeks to protect his people and nation from Barbaric Muslim Conquest and terrible Suffering.
Too bad more don’t see the irony behind making Spain great again. Spain was great before the muzzslime hordes entered the country. It should be clear when and by whom Spain became “un-great”. Muzzslimes ruin everything in their path in their quest for global domination.
Really? Let’s hope that, if he gets elected, he is somebody with, well, in this case, due to language, is appropriate to say cojones.
I know how the Muslums want Spain back. Badly. So I’m very happy to see Trumpism catching on over there. However, it does seem freaky to me to hear a Spanish voice talk anti illegal immigration.
??? Many hispanics in America are also against ILLEGAL immigration. They contribute their unique piece to the American experience; they don’t want to upend it or sponge off welfare. What is truly scary is a caravan coming up from Central America containing 70% young males carrying their nation’s flag. Maybe those visions of young, letcherous, male muslims storming Spanish beaches after Italy rejected them has woke the natives. Muslims are not there to really contribute. they’re there to first drain the state of monetary resources, then take over slowly by their numbers. Scary Stuff Man.
JYAA, I think legal Hispanic immigrants are among the most offended by this invasion.
I agree, B. I have seen a few interviews and comments attributed to legal Hispanic immigrants and they are very angry at the illegal Immigration. They believe ( rightly unfortunately) that Americans view many Hispanics as having come here illegally and gained amnesty. That all Hispanics are tarred with the “ illegal alien who is a criminal “ brush …
I love the passion in this speech. I do wish Our President would be as passionate and saybthe same plain words…about Immigration and Islam…..I understand he is fighting g an uphill battle against the Liberal,Leftists, the globalist socialists and other opponents of his agenda ……
I wish he would build the wall. I have posted before that I would bet , that if Trump asked for volunteer workers and donations of materials, justgtomjump startvthe wall construction, that there would be an outpouring of volunteers and donations of both materials and money. Of course I am not in the inner circle and don’t know all the details , but I think this would be a good way to get the Wall started. Put it under the Army Corps of Engineers , make them in control,of the volunteers and donations ……
WE have to make sure the Republicans keep the House. The wall will get built.
JYAA: I wish I could say different, but out of the Mexican hordes I live amongst, most are pro illegal. They act like they are going against their people otherwise, refuse common sense.
At least they are not trying to change our laws- they don’t bring Shariah.
They just drag down our economy & push up the crime rate.
The left is weaponizing African Muslims …. the “tip of the spear” …. so to speak ?
How many spears …. could a spear chucker chuck …. if a spear chucker could chuck spears ?
@ Lincoln Applegate Hahn
LOL. That is hilarious. And I am a person of half African descent. I have heard many versions of that limerick and tongue twister, but not that particular version. That is a good laugh.
Another Lincoln Applegate Hahn gem! 🙂
There are apparently too many “spear chuckers” in Europe, who don’t know how to live in a sane and stable society, who bring their ignorant mannerisms and boorish behavior to the places they migrate to. And who can blame the natives who have worked so hard to build their societies only to see it ruined by ignorant, and arrogant and obnoxious ingrates?
ROFLMAO!! Great comment.