But more importantly, they ended four decades of Spanish exceptionalism and showed that the country’s fabled immunity to far-right politics had finally given out. The middle and upper-middle class voters of Los Remedios – many of whom are older people – have long been loyal to the conservative People’s party (PP). In the last Andalucían election three years ago, the PP took 61% of the vote in the barrio, with Vox limping far behind on 3.2%. And then there was the issue that forms one of the main planks of the Vox platform: immigration. “The Spanish right is super-competitive at the moment: there are three parties and there’s not enough cake to go round,” said Jurado.

Source: The Guardian December 09, 2018 07:52 UTC