Spain’s Santiago Abascal could be Franco’s ghost

Western European nations tend to dance to the same drummer, so is the rise (if you can call it that) of Spain's Vox party a harbinger of things to come?

Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain’s far-right Vox Party, pictured in 2018, is the bogeyman in the July 23 snap election there. Some delusional panic-mongers see him as the Second Coming of dictator Francisco Franco, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 19, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—“Europe is threatened by anti-European mobs who destroy police stations, burn libraries and stab babies,” explained Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain’s far-right Vox Party and the bogeyman in the July 23 snap election there. Some delusional panic-mon...

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