Party has been relegated to near-irrelevance as Spain bucks European trend of shift towards far right
About 10 months ago, a smiling Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain’s far-right Vox party, proudly described the northern region of Castilla y León as a model of what lay ahead for the party.
The sparsely populated region, where the far right had made its first foray into a Spanish regional government since the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, was a “showroom” for the party’s promises to do away with Spanish laws on abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, gender equality and violence against women.
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