In contrast to other EU countries, in Spain the support for the far-right party Vox has declined over the last 3 years, and has halved from its peak of 20% in March 2022 to just 11% currently
As an immigrant living in Spain: Vox make election day terrifying. I just don't leave the house (immigrants can't vote in Spain).
I'm not a small guy, ex-competitve weight lifter and 6'2, but those people are nuts and it isn't worth the risk.
Holy crap, is it that bad? Do they harass people who don't fit their version of "Spanish"?
I mean...I'm about half a foot taller than anyone else around and hope my physique does my Saxon ancestor's proud. It's not hard to tell I don't come from Spain! I speak Castilian, but my accent is not great and very limited Catalonian so if I open my mouth it's worse.
Very scary.
What exactly is it that terrifies you? What kind of weird fascist ghetto do you live in?
The vox people are so stigmatized and despised that their members on public propaganda racks are constantly recording themselves (and victimizing on the internet) because they are regularly harassed and sometimes even assaulted.
In fact, on voting day and the day before, political campaigning, advertising or lobbying of any kind is prohibited, especially near polling stations. There is also much more security. You would be better off going to one with a lgtb flag than with a vox flag, like the rest of the time.
I live in north Barcelona (don't want to say exactly where as I'm one of like...a dozen immigrants in the district) but last election got:
Nearly all of the perpetrators were wearing bright green.
Too bad PP is gaining the votes VOX lost.
Inevitable, but still better than vox.
Same thing happened a while here in Belgium, with the right wing NVA winning votes from the far-right Vlaams Belang.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I wouldn't count the far right out. They're harder to get rid of than cockroaches.
What are the reasons for this reduction?