The election campaign before Sunday’s election has been intense, boring and somewhat unstable, having, as almost always in this country, to move towards the democratic process in a cleverly created united Europe, to hold the old and the old together. dramatic mistakes that do not happen again, but while we have strong reasons to be proud of what has been achieved, it is not certain how dramatic it will be if we are aware of the risks it takes or make the mistakes that cause it. old conflicts again.
For many citizens who, in one way or another, participated in the formation of the Spanish democratic regime and reached the consensus that allowed the Constitution to be written, the greatest discomfort of recent times has come from the return of treacherous authoritarian ideas that led to a 40-man dictatorship. Years after a bloody civil war that crushed the republican regime, the only truly democratic regime in Spanish history. Based on the claim of key dictatorship elements that legitimize the dictatorship, Vox’s rise has been without a doubt the most disturbing political news since 1978.
What is serious about the case, however, is not that an eccentric force of nostalgia has emerged in Spain, but that this unfortunate birth is only a small part of a general European mobilization that is moving in the same irreconcilable and epoch-making direction. In France, the far right of the National Front (FN; today, Rassemblement National, RN) was born in the early 1970s of the last century and has since grown to a point where current President Emmanuel has grown so much and adapted. Macron had to contend with RN’s Le Pen candidate in the second round of the last two presidential elections in 2017 and 2022. It is not unreasonable to predict that sooner or later the far right will come to power in neighboring countries. country.
In Italy since October 2022, Georgia Meloni of the far-right party “Brothers of Italy” has been in power, adopting very moderate gestures but saying at a rally in Marbella on June 13 by VOX: “Left, until the attacker is illegal defends women”; “the main aim of gender ideology is not equality but the destruction of women”; defending women is, among other things, “condemning ethnic insecurity in our neighbourhoods.” Meloni also denounced the “climate fundamentalism of the green pact” and, according to her, sent us to countries like Russia or China. He pointed to the difficulty for the economy of displacement, which makes it more dependent and “will lead us to destruction”.
Having struggled to adapt to the EU after their relatively recent integration, the Visegrad Group countries are dangerously on the edge of the great European principles. But no one is safe: Fernando Vallespín warned last Sunday that many “outraged” in Germany also voted for the neo-Nazi group Alternative for Germany (AfD). While the clever application of cord sanitaire works there, the most dissolute press in Germany warns of the rise of the AfD in polls, so much so that in some ultras are on par with the greens and in others even more disturbing. The socialists of the SPD themselves.
This is not the place to theorize about the causes of such unacceptable drift. In any case, it seems clear that the great traditional powers that emerged and reorganized after the Second World War were not able to meet the 2008 crisis, which destroyed many hopes and impoverished the West, with sufficient intelligence and necessary decision. to the lower classes who had already liberated themselves from it. It makes no sense that the expression of discontent with a particular political class is to vote for the most radical extremes, people who want to actually overthrow the political regime on the pretext of the major political mistakes of the majority. Because, according to the Churchillian axiom, democracy is and continues to be the worst of all systems.