


The hard-right Vox party is winning over Spain’s youth
The kids like TikTok, Instagram and radical nationalism
Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s socialist prime minister, likes to boast of “feminist Spain”. But at the Transatlantic Summit for Freedom and the Culture of Life, held on December 2nd in the halls of the country’s senate, a different Spain was on view. Representatives of the hard-right Vox party denounced abortion and railed against a “culture of death”. The gathering was not all greybeards. Vox is making a fair bid to appeal to Spain’s youth, not despite its traditionalism but because of it.
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