Spain goes to the polls to decide its next government on Sunday, and a hard-right coalition is looking likely.

The most likely government to emerge - most analysts predict - will be a coalition including a hard-right nationalist party for the first time in Spain since the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.

More left-leaning Spaniards are frantically texting contacts, urging them to make sure to vote - despite the heat and it being holiday time for many - to “stop the fascists” in their tracks.

The rhetoric this election season has been toxic, with voters becoming increasingly polarised.

It’s a fight over values, traditions and about what being Spanish should mean in 2023.

This kind of heated identity debate isn’t peculiar to Spain. Think of Italy, France, Brazil or the post-Trumpian debate in the US.

  • federalreverse-old@feddit.deEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I love how the guy at the end mentions the UK government being “more” rightwing than VOX. No matter whether that is actually true, even making that comparison is incredibly dumb. Comparing yourself to the government/party that very visibly ran the UK into the ground with Brexit in just a few years is terrible PR.

    • Sylocule@lemmy.oneEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I live in Spain. It’s absolutely not true. They’re more akin to the American Republicans that want to limit people’s rights in things like abortion, euthanasia, etc. They’re praise Franco any chance they get