A Xenophobic Party in Spain

A xenophobic party in Spain?

Daniel Morillas

European Democratic Culture

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Topic In spite of the current tensions, and unlike other European countries, it is slightly probable and successful that there turns out to be in Spain a party that does of the xenophobia, the racism or the restriction of the immigration his principal message. Resume Spain has reached in a few years a percentage of foreign population, 9 %, similarly to that of many European countries of ancient immigration in which xenophobic parties have arisen. The concentration of the immigrant population in certain neighborhoods and the delinquency led by some foreigners, they provoke social tensions that small groups of right-wing try to canalize. Nevertheless, the weakness of the Spanish nationalism party and the rejection to the pro-Franco signs that these parties exhibit, make very improbable that are successful.AnalysisIn the majority of the European countries with high percentages of immigration they have turned out to be current of public xenophobic opinion which have fed the formation of political parties with a message against inmigration. These parties have had unequal successes. In some cases they have turned into important and stable political forces, as the National French Front, in others they have achieved momentary successes, as the Ready Pym Fortuyn of Holland, and in others they have remained to half a way between the marginality and the institutional presence, without obtaining parliamentary weight, as the National Party of the United Kingdom. The appearance and the success or failure of these parties depends on a great number of factors and many of them are imponderable. A high level of immigrant population, a strong nationalism from the autochthonous population, unemployment from the autochthonous ones, difficulties of the...