Spain´s Vox on the rise
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Spain’s far-right Vox rises in the polls at expense of centre-right
Conor Faulkner 11 Sep, 2025 CET.
The local.Com“Spain’s far-right party Vox’ leader Santiago Abascal (C) and Jorge Buxade (R) address a press conference in Madrid in 2024. Photo: Thomas COEX/AFP.
New polling data suggests that Spanish far-right Vox is rising in the polls and taking votes from the centre-right Partido Popular, increasing the likelihood that the two may form a coalition should the right-wing block win the next election.Spain’s far-right Vox party has surged in the polls in recent months, hitting a record high and forcing the centre-right Partido Popular (PP) into its worst result since the general election of summer 2023.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists (PSOE) are widely expected, by both pollsters and political wisdom, to lose the next election.
The results therefore raise the real possibility of the PP being forced into a coalition with the far-right, whether formally or informally, when the next election comes. Vox has in recent years stepped up its anti-migrant rhetoric, calling for the deportation of millions of immigrants and banning Islamic events in public spaces at a local level.
PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo has remained coy about possible coalitions with Vox, avoiding commitments but also not ruling anything out, stating only his preference for a “solid and united” government. The two right-wing parties have governed together in several regions of Spain in recent years and the PP has been increasingly dragged rightward by Vox’s rhetoric, especially on issues of immigration and crime.”
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Spain’s Vox mirrors UK far right with protests against migrant centres
Conor Faulkner. The Local.Com
Published: 4 Sep, 2025“In scenes reminiscent of asylum hotel protests in the UK, the Spanish far-right is targeting migrant reception centres through demonstrations and policy proposals.
The Spanish far-right is stepping up protests at migrant reception centres, while the hard-line Vox party is planning a political response in a region of southern Spain.
Hundreds of protestors gathered outside a centre for unaccompanied minors in Madrid this week, feeding anti-migrant sentiment and boldly stating: “If it’s a hate crime, report it.” Demonstrators carried placards with slogans such as “Menas to Morocco!”, “Out with the psychopath Sánchez!”, “Our daughters are afraid” and “Deportations = security”.
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This comes as the Vox leadership in Murcia has pledged to close down all youth migrant centres in the region.
The escalation in protests and political rhetoric is reminiscent of recent demonstrations outside migrant hotels in the UK, though in Spain these are usually reception centres rather than hotels and the migrants are underage.
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Housing illegal migrants in residential areas has caused social strife in Spain and the UK and the response in both, whether protests or politics, often blur the line between legal and illegal migrants and can take on more general anti-foreigner rhetoric. In both countries, online disinformation and misinformation has fuelled protests in the past.
The demonstrations in Madrid follow inciting incidents in the capital. A migrant minor staying at the Hortaleza reception centre was last week arrested for the rape of a 14-year-old girl in a nearby park, sparking widespread anger and protests outside the centre with a visible Vox presence.
Over the weekend, El País reported that “two hooded individuals assaulted two [minor] foreign residents of this centre in the Hortaleza district, who were accompanied by a third adult.” One was hospitalised.
This comes amid news that Vox, who prop up the centre-right Partido Popular in Murcia, is preparing to “besiege all centres in Murcia that take in foreigners,” according to reports in the Spanish press. “In September, the closure of the centre for unaccompanied minors in Santa Cruz must take effect, but Vox is not stopping there. We want to close all illegal centres that are dependent on the region,” said regional Vox leader José Ángel Antelo.
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According to information provided by the Regional Ministry of Social Policy, there are around forty migrant facilities in the region. Data from the Regional Ministry cited by El Periódico shows that around 620 children and adolescents reside in centres in the region.
Antelo also urged the regional authorities to implement agreements set out in Spain’s Immigration Law which allows regional authorities to draw up agreements with countries of origin to facilitate the deportation of undocumented immigrants.
The Councillor for External Affairs, Marcos Ortuño, has announced that he is to set up a “technical committee to establish the necessary mechanisms to attempt family reunification in their countries of origin for unaccompanied minors.”
“The first thing to do is to carry out expert tests on those who say they are minors, because 90 percent of them in Arágon are of legal age,’ he added, without any supporting evidence.
Vox will also register an initiative in the Assembly to hold a referendum asking residents “if they want to continue financing these illegal centres.”
“Citizens have the right to choose what they want, whether their taxes go to funding illegal immigration, which is destroying our neighbourhoods, or whether they want them to go to healthcare… ultimately, to what is important, which is funding the citizens of the Murcia region,” Antelo said.
Murcia gained international headlines last month after clashes between far-right groups and migrants in the town of Torre Pacheco after a local man was beaten by three Moroccan migrants.”
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