Analysis: Spain’s elections may further divide the country
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Sánchez’s potential return to power has been shadowed throughout by two other major developments. First is the long-simmering crisis involving the Catalan secessionist movement, some of whose leaders are on trial on charges of rebellion, disobedience and misuse of public funds.
But Spanish authorities insist that they have no choice, that the Spanish judiciary is impeccably independent, and that they are simply asserting the rule of law in response to the Catalan secessionists’ unconstitutional moves. “Nobody is on trial for what they think,” Santiago Cabanas, Spain’s ambassador in Washington, told Today’s WorldView this year. “They are here because they broke the law.”
The party espouses a hard-right agenda not dissimilar to that of other nativist or populist movements on both sides of the Atlantic. To keep migrants and asylum seekers out, it wants to scale up fortifications around Spain’s North African exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. At home, it has vowed the mass deportation of tens of thousands of undocumented migrants.
Now, some of Vox’s potential parliamentarians include retired generals who defend elements of Franco’s legacy. But if the nation’s immunities do not look quite as strong as they once did, there’s a chance, at least for now, that it won’t be the political left that suffers.
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