Spain’s Vox party gains significant working-class support – Allah's Willing Executioners
Spain’s next election cycle could be the big break the right-wing Vox party has been looking for.
Latest polls and analysis are showing support has soared among the working class. The party is taking votes from the centre-left and shifting the weight of the Spanish electorate to the Right.
On this trajectory, Vox could upend Spanish politics in the next five years, according to analysts.
“If last summer, the percentage of socialist voters who claimed to have moved to [Vox] barely reached 0.3 per cent, last month it was already 2.5 per cent. And going up …” El Mundo, Spain’s second largest newspaper, said of the latest poll it commissioned, published on December 9.
That continued ascent reached almost 1.5 points more from November to December to rise to 3.9 per cent.
The poll also found that Vox is now the most popular party in cities of 100,000 or more residents. In other words, the typically working-class suburbs of Madrid and other large cities.
Other researchers have also noted …