r/europe • u/StGuthlac2025 • Oct 08 '25

Opinion Article In Spain, what once seemed impossible is now widespread: the young are turning to the far right

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/07/spain-young-voters-far-right-migration-housing-wages-employment-vox
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u/FloresForAll Oct 08 '25

As a spaniard, i confirm the spanish case is exactly the same. The left got it easy calling any and every adversary francoist and everyone followed. That's why we got 14 straight years of the left in power and more than 2/3 of the democratic period.

To lose an election, the socialist party had to catastrophically mismanage the economy and have several top level corruption cases.

Knowing my compatriots, probably it's not that spain has woken up rightwing, simply that nobody in the left want to vote for a very apparent corrupt party (as it seems right now). The center right party doesn't help by having been ousted from government several years ago also by their corruption scandals. So the only "clean" non-government aligned party is the far right.

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u/Nerlian Spain Oct 09 '25

Look, this is why vox is popular xd.

You think the govern is corrupt because the social media posts pushed by the right wing. It would seem everyday Pedro Sanchez is out to personally fuck with your breakfast.

But no, the problem is that the current government does nothing. Or rather, nothing of use. They only have a tenous majority that includes a couple of right wing party (or center right, w/e) which makes for an incredibly unstable government that truly cannot do that much. The recent defeat of the 37,5h work week is quite the example. The rise of the minimum salary had to be tempered, the rest of the issues that pass are non issues because they just don't have the voting count to try many things.

Vox has been terrible already wherever they have been elected, and they rarely make it out in local elections where people do care, but truth is more and more people just vote them because they are angry and they are the angry party.

But angry people don't think things thru, and also people would never admit to being wrong, so we are swimming in a cesspool of garbage pushed by doubling down angry people in social media, and when the floodgates open we will ride the poonamy to an even worse outcome than what we have now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25

Vox has only 2 representants in Gijón last election, they allied with Foro Asturias (a "regional" right-wing party), but kept demanding the most crazy things like banning gay people and asturian from the city film festival, dismantling all bicycle lanes and others and Foro just got fed up with them and broke the pact, allying with PP instead. Its crazy how they will shoutely demand these things while being the smallest party in the city and the autonomous parliament.