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Since the beginning of the coalition government between PSOE and Unidas Podemos in 2019, the country is focused on the problems derived from the pandemic, both health and economic. There is some disappointment on part of the left about the validity of some laws of the previous government, especially the Citizen Security Law (known as …

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Since the beginning of the coalition government between PSOE and Unidas Podemos in 2019, the country is focused on the problems derived from the pandemic, both health and economic. There is some disappointment on part of the left about the validity of some laws of the previous government, especially the Citizen Security Law (known as …

News & Analysis

Spain | Blockingtheright, elections, Far-right, Spain, VOX | 08/21/2023

Spain after the June elections: will blocking the right be enough?

For the moment, it seems that the extreme right is not gaining that many institutional positions at the state level. But it has achieved a lot of institutional power in municipalities and regions. In a state where the autonomous regions have important powers, it is conceivable that four years of regressive public policies will follow in many autonomous communities.
However, at state level, the progressive block is holding.

It remains to be seen how the balance of power will develop in the coming months.

Spain | 10/07/2021

United Against Hate: A Kilo of Information on the Spanish Far Right

De los neocón a los neonazis (From Neocons to Neo-Nazis), the collective volume edited by Miquel Ramos and Nora Rodríguez, was launched in October 2021 with a presentation that turned into a ceremony to celebrate the union of the publications El Salto and La Marea, in their converging paths to unmask the Spanish far right.

Reports

March 2023

Introduction & Updates in National Landscape The motion of censure presented by Vox against Pedro Sánchez took place at the beginning of March. The initiative was proposed as a candidate for president of the Government of Ramón Tamames, a historical politician of the Communist Party, and has been rejected with the only votes in favor …

February 2023

Introduction & Updates in National Landscape The agenda of the Spanish far-right is once again led by Vox, this time for proposing a motion of no confidence against President Pedro Sánchez proposing Ramón Tamames as an alternative president. Tamames is a well-known politician who, in his youth, participated in the movement against the Franco dictatorship …

January 2023

Introduction & Updates in National Landscape Feminist issues have starred in the agenda of the Spanish extreme right in January. In the first place, as a result of a modification in the medical protocol for abortions in Castilla y León, the only autonomous community in which the extreme right-wing Vox party is part of the …

December 2022

Introduction & Updates in National Landscape The conflict in the Spanish judicial system has marked the agenda of the Spanish extreme right in December, a month in which a symbolic anniversary is celebrated, the Day of the Spanish Constitution, contradictory for the extreme right parties with parliamentary representation, that is, Vox. At the state level, …

November 2022

Introduction & Updates in National Landscape November is an important month for the extreme right in Spain, with two important anniversaries, those of the deaths of the dictator Francisco Franco and José Antonio Primo de Rivera. The acts in his honor have been held despite the fact that the Democratic Memory Law, which prohibits them, …

October 2022

October has been marked by the approval of the Democratic Memory Law, which has ignited the spirits of extreme right-wing groups and parties, whose speeches and acts praising Francoism are now punishable by the new law. The link between the extreme right and the police forces has jumped into the media after the decoration awarded …

Resources

Spain | 06/07/2022

PROXI

The Online Project against Xenophobia and Intolerance in Digital Media is an initiative of various human rights entities to fight against hate speech on the Internet.

Spain | 06/07/2022

Crímenes de Odio

Mapping and analysis of hate crimes committed in Spain since 1990 carried out by journalists Miquel Ramos and David Bou.