Vox capitalizes on Trump’s victory while the PSOE, Sumar and Podemos call for mobilization against the “ultra-international”

Meloni, who had been muse until that moment of Santiago Abascalwas in full contact with the parties that make up the European Popular Group, for whom the president of the Italian government now appears to be a right-wing party with whom we can negotiate.

Meanwhile, Orbán had formed a new movement called Patriots for Europe, which included the French. Marine Le Pen or Dutch Geert Wilderswith a clear vocation pro-Russian and a certain tendency eurosceptic.

Vox sources indicated at the time that the change was due to the victory of the sector closest to Putin within the party, led by the MEP. Jorge Buxadeand that the formation launched a protest strategy which would allow it to defend a anti-system discourse far from institutions.

In case of doubt, a week later Vox broke the agreements it had made with the PP in five autonomous communities, cutting the umbilical cord that linked it to government responsibilities.

This movement, poorly understood by some, now takes on its full meaning after the triumph of Donald Trump in the United States, which is happening alongside the rise of other far-right groups in Europe.

Parties like Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France or the AfD in Germany They grew up in the heat of Trump’s first victory in 2016 – like other movements in other parts of the world – and they now intend to establish themselves as the main forces in the two most important countries of the EU, where their respective governments are very weakened.

Its strategy is to present itself as the only alternative to the system and thus to launch itself into control the system itself.

Thus, Santiago Abascal was the first Spanish leader to congratulate Donald Trump. “It’s the time of the patriots. “It’s time for freedom,” he tweeted, alongside a photo with the US president-elect and another with his vice-presidential candidate, J.D. Vance.

Buxadé then theorized the result across the Atlantic in an interview with Radio Informaone of its associated media. “It is a victory against globalism, thanks to the policies woke upto doctrines about climate change or cultural cancellation. And this shows that, despite the money from the Democratic campaign, you can beat any enemy“, he said.

Vox is thus launching into the field of the cultural battle against progressivism, which it has cultivated so much in recent times, with the difference that it now feels legitimized by having as its partner the most powerful leader in the West.

“To follow this path, it was not necessary to forge new alliances at European level nor to break with the PP, because Trump was already an ally», Now respond to critical sources from Vox who have left the party. “You could continue to fight against the culture woke up without abandoning the governments, but the pro-Putin drift has imposed its criteria,” add these same sources.

The left closes ranks

Meanwhile, the left does not reject this cultural battle either, which it describes as an “alternative to the far right”. Pedro Sanchez congratulated Donald Trump and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albaresmaintained institutionality by speaking about Spain’s commitment to NATO – to which Trump also does not pay particular attention – and to the United States.

Although from the PSOE, there have been messages aimed at mobilizing theirs. Several deputies, like Victor Gutiérrez, Ignacio Lopez either Elisa Garridoexpressed themselves in this sense. But the most solemn came from Brussels.

MEP and President of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament Iratxe Garcia He tweeted that “it’s a dark day.” “We know what Trump’s plan means: authoritarianism, xenophobia and lack of opportunity. Progressive and democratic forces in the US and EU must remain united in our fight for a fairer, more sustainable and more inclusive future.

Even if these progressive forces are diminishing more and more. Because Sánchez is already one of the few European social democratic leaders, with the chancellor implicated Olaf Scholzwhich isolates its positions in the EU but also allows it to present itself as a containment barrier before the “international far-right to which he appealed on several occasions.

Sumar y Podemos, to radicalize

On the day of Trump’s victory, the ruling party had to maintain diplomacy. Podemos’ speech, however, seems more like a trench.

“The Spanish left has an important lesson to learn from the elections in the United States. Thinking that “Let’s save Sánchez so that the PP does not govern with VOX” will work is giving the game to the far right. It’s time to radicalize“Don’t look for a center that doesn’t exist,” he wrote on his social networks. Pablo Iglesiasco-founder of Podemos.

From Sumar, Yolanda Diazremained halfway between one and the other. “Trump’s victory is bad news for all citizens who view politics as a tool to improve our lives, not to poison them with hatred and misinformation. “We will not stand idly by: Europe urgently needs to secure its own voice and autonomous place in the world,” he tweeted.

The left is therefore taking up the challenge of this ultra-international which it is predictable that it will now call upon to stir up tensions. vote of fear.

This is what he warns Guillermo Fernándezdoctor in political science from the Carlos III University of Madrid and expert on far-right movements: “I think we can expect a radicalization of left-wing discourse, or at least of part of the left .”

“Parties like Podemos understand that we live in a time of polarization and that in this time lukewarm or moderate proposals don’t work pro establishment. So, to combat the rise of this extreme right, we can expect it to radicalize its policies to associate with these feelings of fear or anxiety that run through society,” says the expert.