FEATURE: the extreme right in Europe ( LUIS GARCIA AND PAUL MEYER 01 / 05/2011)
The far right is fragmented. But the presence PXC in Catalonia, which has more than 100 nominations for the municipal elections, fears a rise of xenophobic extremism
The so-called extreme right is presented as always, divided, formed by a multitude of groups, cliques and grupete , confused, unintelligible word searches. "The quote is not from any political scientist, but someone with a long history in many of these" grupete "and now tries to disengage from them.
Ricardo Saenz de Ynestrillas no longer exalted tanned young man during the fascist gangs Transition and other shady entanglements for which ended behind bars. Now is a lawyer of 45 who also writes books against the leaders of Spain 2000, National Democracy and the string of Phalanges who will attend the upcoming municipal elections May 22.
The extreme right has still divided "into groups, cliques and grupete," said Saenz de Ynestrillas
Ynestrillas well known, because he says he was able to unify and lead this movement, the ultra phagocytosis there since the death of dictator Franco and prevented during the democracy that the far right reaches regional and national parliaments (except Blas Pinar seat won in 1979 by New Force) . The schism is still there: unemployment, bailouts, social cuts and other problems in Europe have led to marginal candidates for years to embrace more fervently xenophobic discourse to draw electoral revenue, a populist wave to which Spain still remains impermeable . "Still," he warns, pessimistic, sociologist Ignacio Sotelo.
The most outrageous of the English case is that leads many of the worst records. The foreign population exceeds 12%. Unemployment, 20%. The budget adjustments do not reduce insecurity, and the perception of immigrants has hit rock (in October 2009, 77% of people saw "excessive" number of foreigners, according to a study by the Center for Sociological Research .)
Perhaps the biggest is based in Catalonia Platform hand per Catalunya (PXC). In the 2007 municipal elections, especially in the regional elections of 2010, the party of Josep Anglada, with a program that attacked the immigrant from his preface, he gave a scare Morrocotudo the political spectrum. In the first elections council planted in seven locations in Catalonia. In the second, his support shot up, which gave 75,321 votes. For the municipal elections this month, has been pxc vitamins: over 100 applications and a proposal for the dramatic and hilarious, consisting in setting up a foundation to financially assist citizens affected by the crisis, with a twist: the locals will take into . "None of immigrants, or with papers or without them," says Anglada the phone from his office in the city of Vic (Barcelona), and concluded, "I give my money to anyone."
If PXC not draw any deputy of the Generalitat, was not just for votes. Ignacio Urquizu, a professor at the Complutense University, explains that Anglin did not enter the Catalan Parliament was "through the roof that makes the electoral law, which requires overcoming the barrier of 3%. In any case, any consideration of right-wing formations hang this label. Even jump offended when they are faced with this possibility, and some do not openly identify with the right, as Josep Anglada, who in his youth played for New Force. "We are not of any political sign," he says, and declares: "We are a party and populist identity and our mission is to fight for Catalonia. "identity?" It can not be that Moroccans in Catalonia have a birth rate much higher than the Catalans, in 15 years we could lose our identity, "he said, referring to the INE data on the exploitation of municipal census, which give a much higher birth rate among mothers from the North African country.
To Ynestrillas, who describes himself Falangist and says the party with the most sympathetic is now UPyD , Anglada is "a populist message without immigration." From Spain 2000, whose poor training scope is limited to Valencia, recognize that seen with good eyes to Anglada made the campaign in Catalonia, and do not rule out working with PXC before the impending local elections.
However, unemployment in Spain has not bolted down roots influential training is Eurosceptic, ultra, radical, racist or territorial delusions of grandeur, for virtually all European countries.
"That the extreme right there is something that is beyond doubt," he reasons Ignacio Sotelo. "Another thing is that is not organized as a party. But it is every day in television studios or newspapers [referring to the group Interecono-mine]. What happens is that in Spain acts as a lobby pressure within the PP. "Sociologist Franco argues that parties are marginal" because the extreme right is not Franco.
Deputy Secretary of Communication PP, González Pons, denies that its ranks have a significant number of right-wing voters, and goes further: "The right voters are generally dissatisfied with the PSOE exvotantes. It's like what happened in France, in the suburbs of Paris or Marseille: Le Pen achieved tremendous support of former Socialist voters. " González Pons think the far right may conquer the Parliament in the 2012 elections. "The right-wing sociology is the most abundant and most dangerous. Born with the fear of crisis, immigration." And he explains: "In a context in which the polls say that politicians are part of the problem, and we see the two major parties unable to resolve the strike, many people seek that authority which replaces democracy. There is the real danger. "
And yet few are able to specify in Spain in what this imminent danger embodied in the far right, a slippery concept often cast spurious purposes, as the philosopher Fernando Savater, sharp when required an updated definition: "The far right can not be all that with which we disagree." If the left parties often use epithets like "fascist" for party decisions rebuking the right attitudes Savater also notes "clearly endorsed right-wing in behavior by those who say advanced or left", clearly referring to the left nationalist as the political arm of ETA.
The far right is a pattern that they all leave, but many formations underrepresented practitioners and advocates in the shade. González Pons lives it every day on the wall of their Facebook profile. "They keep hang tildan messages that match our soft, pliable, traitor."
pressure groups to carry the main right-wing right-wing party in Spain is clear, but to what extent this influence is deep? Political scientist Vicente Navarro, professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, believes that enough. "It would be unthinkable in Europe that lead to a fascist union only judge who has tried to execute the crimes of the dictatorship of the Supreme Court, and that the sanction for trying. This gives an idea of \u200b\u200bhow powerful and extensive is the extreme right within the right. "-
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