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New polling shows Spain’s far-right Vox party has surged in popularity over the course of the summer

SPAIN’S far-right Vox party has reached its strongest polling figures since the 2023 general election, according to new data published by El Pais and Cadena

9 Sep, 2025 @ 11:18

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UK opens vote to its left-leaning 16-year-olds – while Spain’s youth flocks to the far-right

SIXTEEN and seventeen-year-olds have been handed the right to vote in the next UK election after Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government committed to the largest

19 Jul, 2025 @ 13:07

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Begoña Gomez- wife of Spain's PM, Pedro Sanchez- ordered to testify over alleged embezzlement of public money

Who’s who in the Begoña Gomez case? All you need to know about the ‘influence peddling’ probe into wife of Spain’s PM

AS Madrid judge Juan Carlos Peinado charges ahead with his influence peddling case against the wife of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Begoña Gomez, a growing

31 Aug, 2024 @ 17:49

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How far-right forces in Spain used the brutal killing of an 11-year-old boy to stir up racial tensions

THE news of the brutal murder of an 11-year-old boy in Spain has been used by the far-right to stir up racial tensions. Young Mateo

20 Aug, 2024 @ 12:21

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Spain passes controversial 'amnesty law': Architects of illegal Catalan independence referendum are granted freedom from prosecution

Spain’s Pedro Sanchez reacts to far-right ‘victory’ in first round of France’s general election: PM ‘has hope’ the left will win Sunday’s second vote but admits ‘we should be alert’

SPANISH Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez reacted this morning to the results of the first round of parliamentary elections in France, which saw the far right

1 Jul, 2024 @ 16:39

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Armed police at the scene of the shooting of Borja Villacis

After major manhunt, police in Madrid detain two more suspects in assassination of prominent politician’s brother, including far-right Holocaust denier Kevin Pastor

AFTER a major manhunt, police in Madrid have arrested two more suspects in the assassination of Borja Villacis, the brother of prominent former politician Begoña

7 Jun, 2024 @ 10:54

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

WATCH: Spanish police fire rubber bullets at far-right German ‘ultras’ who ‘attacked doorman’ at bar in Palma de Mallorca

THE Policia Nacional used rubber bullets to disperse a group of far-right German football supporters that assaulted a doorman at a Playa de Palma cocktail

29 May, 2024 @ 15:34

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Far-right group in Spain attracts full house at Madrid meeting thanks to video blaming immigrants for turning the country ‘into a dunghill’

A FAR-RIGHT group called Nucleo Nacional released a video earlier this week, encouraging supporters to attend a meeting that took place earlier today, Sunday, in

14 Apr, 2024 @ 14:54

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Attack on Socialist politician Olegario Ramon

Far-right protesters attack left-wing politician in Spain: Video shows moment PSOE spokesperson is manhandled by member of a flag-waving mob

THE former mayor of Ponferrada and current Socialist Party (PSOE) spokesperson in the northwestern Spanish city, Olegario Ramon, was violently attacked on Thursday by a

12 Apr, 2024 @ 12:04

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WATCH: Boat drops off 40 migrants in front of shocked tourists at a beach in Spain’s Andalucia

TOURISTS were left shocked on Sunday after boats carrying over 40 migrants made landfall on a popular beach in Andalucia. Videos circulating on social media

26 Feb, 2024 @ 10:27

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Far-right VOX party in Marbella demands helpful information for young LGBT+ people be removed from local government websites because it ‘indoctrinates children’

VOX politicians in Marbella have called on the local council to remove educational guides from their website aimed at helping the region’s young LGBT+ people.

19 Feb, 2024 @ 10:17

Andalucia·Lead·Malaga·Marbella·Politics

Spain’s prime minister as a piñata: Who was behind the New Year’s Eve protest in Madrid that saw an effigy of Pedro Sanchez strung up and beaten?

IN MADRID it is a New Year’s Eve tradition to flock to central Sol square, where crowds of revellers welcome in the new year at

4 Jan, 2024 @ 12:56

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Eighteen nights of protests in Madrid against government’s Catalan amnesty plan see more than 70 arrests

LAST NIGHT marked the 18th improvised protest to be held outside the headquarters of the Socialist Party in Madrid’s Ferraz street. The demonstrations were originally

22 Nov, 2023 @ 12:17

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Far-right extremist Kristofer Kearney quoted Hitler in chat group, UK court hears

A FAR-RIGHT fitness guru who was extradited from Spain to face terror charges in the UK claimed that Adolf Hitler ‘showed people the way’. Kristofer

6 May, 2023 @ 15:45

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Santiago Abascal, Vox leader. Photo by Cordon Press

Spain’s far-right Vox party offers identical election manifesto for municipalities

AS THE May 28 local and regional elections approach, many Spanish voters will no doubt be seeking out the election manifestos of the various parties

1 May, 2023 @ 13:30

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Alleged right-wing extremist Kristofer Kearney, who was extradited to the UK from Spain, enters guilty pleas

AN ALLEGED right-wing British extremist who used to live in Spain’s Alicante has admitted to a UK court that he shared a stash of terrorist

1 Mar, 2023 @ 19:15

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Alleged far-right extremist Kris Kearney who was extradited from Spain’s Costa Blanca to Britain denies ‘disseminating terrorist publications’

AN alleged right wing British extremist who set up home in Alicante before being extradited to the UK has denied disseminating terrorist publications . Kristofer

27 Jan, 2023 @ 14:03

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Pedro Sanchez tells NATO that training base in Spain for Ukraine army will open next week

Speaking at Davos, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez issues warning about far-right parties

SPANISH Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez used his platform at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday to warn against allowing far-right political parties into

18 Jan, 2023 @ 18:00

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Schoolteacher in Spain’s Mallorca gets death threats after demanding students remove Spain flag from classroom

A SCHOOLTEACHER in the Balearic island of Mallorca has been receiving death threats after she ordered a class of students to remove a Spain flag

28 Nov, 2022 @ 16:15

Balearic Islands·Education·Lead

Spain's far-right Vox party faces corruption probe after receiving millions of euros from donations and Hungarian bank

Far-right Vox party gets first taste of regional government power in Spain

THE far-right Vox party has achieved its first foothold in running a regional government in Spain after it secured a coalition deal on Thursday with

10 Mar, 2022 @ 18:45

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Pedro Sanchez claims 'more than 500 people' died during latest heatwave in Spain

Blow for Pedro Sanchez socialists as far-right Vox party gets big boost in regional elections in Spain’s Castilla y Leon

FAR-RIGHT party Vox won 13 seats in yesterday’s Castilla y Leon regional elections which will make it kingmaker in a Partido Popular-led coalition. The PSOE

14 Feb, 2022 @ 13:06

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Spain’s Vox wants to extend citizenship waiting period to 15 years for British expats

SPAIN’S far-right Vox political party has proposed a bill to the Spanish Congress that would see citizenship through residency take 15 years instead of the current ten

14 Nov, 2021 @ 20:24

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Far right leader Tommy Robinson flees England to set up new life as immigrant in Spain

FAR-RIGHT activist and former jail bird Tommy Robinson is thought to have moved to Spain. Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – has revealed he

28 Jul, 2020 @ 13:44

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