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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 …

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 …

September 2022

Giorgia Meloni’s victory in Italy has been experienced by the main far-right party in Spain, Vox, as a victory of its own. For the rest, September has been a month marked by international events in which both Vox officials and Hazte Oír and its international branch, CitizenGo, have participated in Europe and the world. Updates …

August 2022

Introduction The attack against Darya Dugina, daughter of the philosopher Alexander Dugin, marks the agenda of the extreme right in August. A new far-right party, Libres, founded by former members of Vox in Ceuta, is also presented this month. Updates in the National Landscape On August 8, Pedro Chaparro resigned as Secretary General of National Democracy …

June 2022

June has been marked by the elections in Andalusia, in which Vox presented Macarena Olona as a candidate, despite the fact that he fraudulently registered in a house owned by another member of the far-right party in Andalusia as the Statute of Autonomy Andalusian forces candidates for the Andalusian Parliament to reside in this autonomous …

May 2022

May 5th The members of National Democracy Pablo Lucini and Víctor Quiles try to give a conference at the Somosaguas faculty of the Complutense University, but a group of anti-fascists prevents it. https://twitter.com/DNacional/status/1522252282959736833 Twitter blocks Pablo Lucini’s account for hate speech. https://twitter.com/DNacional/status/1522174422785961986 May 7th Gonzalo Martín, from Democracia Nacional, participates in the Forum Europe et de …

April 2022

3th of April National Democracy gives encouragement on Twitter to Miša Vacić, president of the far-right Serbian Right party. https://twitter.com/D_Nacional/status/1510616551694770178 4th of April National Democracy congratulates his “friend” Laszlo Toroczkai on Twitter for the entry of the far-right Our Fatherland party into the Hungarian Parliament https://twitter.com/DNacional/status/1510744518852849673 https://twitter.com/DNacional/status/1510718408052158468 https://twitter.com/D_Nacional/status/1510624188012412935 5th of April Fans of the Atlético de Madrid soccer …

March 2022

In March, Vox achieved its biggest electoral victory. On March 10th Vox entered an autonomous government for the first time with the agreement reached with the Popular Party on March 10 in Castilla y León. The leader of Vox in this region will assume the position of regional vice president in April and the party …

February 2022

February 6 Demonstration of Democracia Nacional neonazi party under the slogan “White Vests against the health dictatorship” and against child vaccination https://twitter.com/DNacional/status/1490320676187688964 https://twitter.com/DNacional/status/1490311017867452416 Nazi tribute in Madrid to the Blue Division, the Spanish fighters who fought with the III Reich https://www.elplural.com/sociedad/neonazis-vuelven-tomar-cementerio-almudena-sin-su-musa-fascismo-antijudios284311102 Transphobic attack in València https://www.levante-emv.com/sucesos/2022/02/12/ataque-transfobia-valencia-travesti-asco-62603980.html?fbclid=IwAR1FAQmwJy14LIN3svPZQfuiYB6ul5s48Oeev6aLhF-OV6weykRdqo6ilU The Prosecutor’s Office requests 12 years in prison for …

January 2022

The denial of the covid pandemic continues to be one of the main battlefronts for the extreme right. The year starts with Pedro Chaparro, leader of Democracia Nacional, in front of Congress manifesting against the health measures #TiraniaSanitaria https://twitter.com/D_Nacional/status/1477660973666381830 after the demonstration of what they call “globalist tyranny and health dictatorship”. https://twitter.com/PChaparro1987/status/1477718148904271877 In the judicial …

November 2021

The radical section of València CF known as Ultra Yomus, dissolved in 2013, reappeared, led by former members of the neo-nazi trend group and a new section called “Secuaces”, made up of neo-nazi militants from España2000 and Bastión Frontal . His attempt to recover the ultra group has caused a confrontation with other former members of the group, some also of neonazi ideology. This new group has already starred in some incidents near the Mestalla field (Valencia CF soccer field), such as an attack on a young man for wearing a ‘Working Class’ shirt or the exhibition of nazi symbols and chants, denounced by the Conselleria Democratic Memory of the Valencian government.

October 2021

The neo-nazi Democracia Nacional party and its youth continue to campaign against the COVID-19 vaccine. Several nazi parties have joined conspiracy theories about the origin of the pandemic, with different campaigns and demonstrations in the streets, as well as stickers, posters, videos and programs dedicated to this. They use these mobilizations to spread their messages and attract people, as well as to attack the government.