The most likely government to emerge - most analysts predict - will be a coalition including a hard-right nationalist party for the first time in Spain since the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.

More left-leaning Spaniards are frantically texting contacts, urging them to make sure to vote - despite the heat and it being holiday time for many - to “stop the fascists” in their tracks.The rhetoric this election season has been toxic, with voters becoming increasingly polarised.

It’s a fight over values, traditions and about what being Spanish should mean in 2023.

This kind of heated identity debate isn’t peculiar to Spain. Think of Italy, France, Brazil or the post-Trumpian debate in the US.

At EU HQ in Brussels, there are huge concerns about a resurgence of hard-right nationalist parties across Europe.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    That stinks, I know, but there are no alternatives…

    There’s always an alternative to fascism, and it’s always better.

    • @[email protected]
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      -11 year ago

      When society takes collectively a direction, it’s like trying to swim upstream. You can only if you are strong enough.

    • @bouh
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      -21 year ago

      If you means liberalism that is becoming fascism too, I don’t think it’s a alternative…