Surveys show an imminent explosion of ultra-right party Vox in the legislative elections for the Spanish parliament this Sunday the 28th April. Whatever the final result of Sunday’s polls might be, this is a worrying and disruptive revelation in a context where the Spanish political system is in flux since 2014.
A success of the far right, after years of continuous defeat, might disintegrate the resistance demonstrated until now in Spain against the rise of illiberalism across Europe, in a global context in which populism has taken on a nationalistic, revisionist and authoritarian character and currently holds power in an ever increasing number of nations across the world.
It is vital therefore that the world takes note of the revelations regarding international funding of right-wing groups campaigns in Europe through opaque financing schemes that are often illegal in nature, information that has come to light thanks to an investigation by openDemocracy.
