VOX Digs Deep—and Young—for New Spokesperson
Brought up from a regional parliament, the 28-year-old lawyer is replacing one of the party’s founders.
Brought up from a regional parliament, the 28-year-old lawyer is replacing one of the party’s founders.
Despite being the country’s third largest party, VOX was blocked from taking its seat on the Parliament’s governing bureau following machinations by the conservative PP, as separatist support secured the election of a socialist speaker of the house.
Many popular parties in Europe do not want to challenge the status quo and will stoop to forming alliances with leftists. However, these parties fail to realize that by doing this, they are losing their conservative identity, their authority, and their voters.
A slow-motion economic meltdown in Argentina has handed the initiative to eccentric libertarian populist Javier Milei who romped home first in primaries over the weekend.
Spanish conservative party VOX has lost a major figure and its parliamentary spokesman, Ivan Espinosa de los Monteros, who has resigned from politics following a disappointing turnout in last month’s national election.
While a PP voter is the closest thing to a VOX voter, a PP leader—at least Feijóo—is the closest thing to a PSOE leader.
Everything points to Spain being Europe’s Venezuela, and the government will ultimately be chosen by all of Spain’s enemies.
After decades of a culture war in which only one side has been fighting, VOX needed more than moderate poise and occasional rallies to turn things around.
With Spain in the EU presidency and European elections coming up next year, the shortfall of the Right in Spain is having repercussions in Brussels as well.
Were the PP to govern now, it is unlikely that it would try to resolve the asymmetries of the Spanish system on display during these elections, especially with Núñez Feijóo at the helm.
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