The extreme right on the rise in Spain: we will close mosques

Announcing its electoral platform ahead of Spain’s early general elections on July 23, the far-right Vox party has vowed to return irregular migrants to their country and close “fundamentalist” mosques.

Vox’s 100-point electoral program also included anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic issues, which until now had not been raised by political parties during election campaigns and were never discussed.

Vox, which is likely to come to power as a coalition government with the right-wing Popular Party (PP), which is currently the main opposition, following July 23 in Spain, openly expressed its far-right views on the electoral platform.

Vox, in its promises regarding immigrants, affirmed that “irregular immigrants in Spain or legal immigrants who commit crimes will be sent to their countries, the penalties against mafia groups or NGOs that promote irregular immigration will be increased, the law on those who enter illegally and attempts to obtain legal status will be changed, language learning, taxation and integration conditions will be increased” in the electoral program.

Vox also stated that “fundamentalist mosques will be closed, imams who despise women and defend jihadism will be expelled, the construction of mosques supported by Wahhabism and Salafism and the financing of places of worship on Spanish soil will be prohibited by part of third countries, and religious education will be prohibited in public schools,” Vox said.

THEY WANT ABORTION CANCELLATION AND LGBT LAWS

The echoes of the electoral program of the extreme right in the Spanish press were mainly on issues related to domestic politics.

The repeal by Vox of left-wing government laws such as “abortion, euthanasia, the expansion of LGBT rights, the Democratic Memory (the law that contains the social reckoning with the traces of Francoism)”, the prohibition of the separatist political parties with reference to Catalonia and the Basque Country, 17 autonomous communities in the country The promises of the administration, such as restricting the rights of the administration and introducing a more centralized form of administration, drew attention. (AA)