The Spanish party VOX is not "Far-right". It is Far Left.
Consider its policies compared with China, a "Unitary Marxist Leninist Socialist Republic". IOW, what I'd call "Far Left".
Based on the VOX policies described in the El Pais article linked here, how do they compare with China's"?
Based on the VOX policies described in the El Pais article linked here, how do they compare with China's"?
1. Structure of power: ✔️ China also centralises power in the Beijing central government.
2. National heroes: ✔️ Example: Lei Feng, China's PLA army hero.
3. Gender violence law. ✔️The VOX policies echo China's.
4. No to immigration: ✔️Though the El Pais article misrepresents the policy a bit. They are not saying "no to all immigration", but calling for immigration to be controlled to those that are needed for Spain. China is the same, as are many countries.
5. Eliminate wasteful spending: ✔️ But again, who really supports "wasteful spending"? Anyone? Why should it be "far-right" to oppose it?
6. Education and health. ✔️ China has a similar system. "Single system" sounds pretty much like something Bernie Sanders and AOC would support, not those horrid "far-right" folks.
7. Taxes what taxes? ✔️ For a long while China, in the time I lived there, had no taxes at all. Again, why is the reduction of taxes a particularly "far-right" thing when it's been a thing for pretty much all governments in recent decades?
8. Fight against corruption. ✔️ China President Xi Jinping has made his name in the fight against corruption. But who thinks corruption is a good thing? Why is it "far-right" to fight it?
9. Islamic fundamentalism. ✔️ Uighur Muslims put in Chinese labour camps… and yet again, who is for "Islamic fundamentalism" when it's a euphemism for suicide bombing?
So it's hard for me to see how VOX is described as "far-right" as opposed to "far Left". I suspect the main thing is that the lefties at El Pais don't like Vox's immigration policies, though all those do is reflect the large majorities — 75% of Europeans and British by various polls — who think mass immigration from culturally different (aka Muslim) countries ought to be controlled. They are "populist", iow. Yuck!
And they don't like this, the El Pais lefties, but they can't call it Left, because the Left is all things good, so they label it far-Right. That's just what they do with things they don't like.
