Re: Τοπικές εκλογές Ανδαλουσίας. Εμφανιση Ακροδεξιάς στην Ισπανία
Δημοσιεύτηκε: 08 Δεκ 2018, 19:53
Ενδιαφέρον και διαφωτιστικό κείμενο. Μια από τα ίδια με την Ελλάδα, είναι λέει κατά της μετανάστευσης, αλλά θέλουν παράλληλα και τα φτηνά εργατικά χέρια που εξασφαλίζουν οι Μαροκινοί και οι μετανάστες από την υποσαχαρια Αφρική.
Στην Αλμερία το Vox κατάφερε να βγει πρώτο...
Rise of the far right in Spain: A visit to three municipalities that voted for Vox
Far-right group Vox has shaken up the political landscape of southern Spain. The party received almost 400,000 votes at the Andalusian regional elections on Sunday, and will for the first time have elected deputies in parliament. The rise of the far-right party has been particularly significant in traditional strongholds of the conservative Popular Party (PP), such as El Ejido (Almería) and Los Remedios (Seville). Albuñol (Granada) was won by the Socialist Party (PSOE) but Vox made a surprising jump into third place there. Here is a visit to the three municipalities.
El Ejido
On Monday in La Redonda, five kilometers from El Ejido (Almería), where dozens of small farmers come to sell their wares, the conversation centered on one thing: the 12 deputies Vox had won in the Andalusian regional election, two of them in Almería. Located in the southeast of the province, El Ejido is home to 89,000 residents and is covered with greenhouses. Agriculture is the main economic driver.
One-third of the population are migrants (mainly Moroccans, sub-Saharan Africans and Romanians) who have come here because it is easy to find work in the fields, often without needing proper paperwork. Vox’s anti-immigration stance is one of the reasons it has become so popular in El Ejido, the only municipality where it received more votes (29.5%) than any other party.
“Here there is just one type of racism: the racism suffered by Spanish people,” says a farmer in La Redonda, who did not want to give his name. “[Migrants] have everything that the Spanish don’t. They arrive and get €400, when there are pensioners here who only receive €600,” he adds.
A few migrants waiting outside an administration office at La Redonda say they have never heard of Vox. They don’t know that a party that wants to deport undocumented migrants and legal migrants who commit crimes has just been elected to the Andalusian Parliament. “Our relationship living here together is not bad,” says Rabha Kharifi, a 51-year-old Moroccan woman who has spent 15 years in Spain and the last six in El Ejido. But locals still remember what happened in February 2000 when, in retaliation for the murder of three people by North African migrants, hundreds of residents decided to take justice into their own hands and attacked the migrant community.
In Balanegra, a municipality on the outskirts where just 3,000 people live, Vox received 30% of the vote. A shopkeeper from the area says he voted for the PSOE but says the area is “very right wing.” “You can tell by how they treat you,” he explains, adding that many of the farmers have double standards. “They are against immigration but at the same time they need the manual labor of Moroccans and sub-Saharan Africans for their crops.”
A group of migrants in Albuñol (Granada), one of Vox's strongholds. FERMÍN RODRÍGUEZ
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Στην Αλμερία το Vox κατάφερε να βγει πρώτο...
Rise of the far right in Spain: A visit to three municipalities that voted for Vox
Far-right group Vox has shaken up the political landscape of southern Spain. The party received almost 400,000 votes at the Andalusian regional elections on Sunday, and will for the first time have elected deputies in parliament. The rise of the far-right party has been particularly significant in traditional strongholds of the conservative Popular Party (PP), such as El Ejido (Almería) and Los Remedios (Seville). Albuñol (Granada) was won by the Socialist Party (PSOE) but Vox made a surprising jump into third place there. Here is a visit to the three municipalities.
El Ejido
On Monday in La Redonda, five kilometers from El Ejido (Almería), where dozens of small farmers come to sell their wares, the conversation centered on one thing: the 12 deputies Vox had won in the Andalusian regional election, two of them in Almería. Located in the southeast of the province, El Ejido is home to 89,000 residents and is covered with greenhouses. Agriculture is the main economic driver.
One-third of the population are migrants (mainly Moroccans, sub-Saharan Africans and Romanians) who have come here because it is easy to find work in the fields, often without needing proper paperwork. Vox’s anti-immigration stance is one of the reasons it has become so popular in El Ejido, the only municipality where it received more votes (29.5%) than any other party.
“Here there is just one type of racism: the racism suffered by Spanish people,” says a farmer in La Redonda, who did not want to give his name. “[Migrants] have everything that the Spanish don’t. They arrive and get €400, when there are pensioners here who only receive €600,” he adds.
A few migrants waiting outside an administration office at La Redonda say they have never heard of Vox. They don’t know that a party that wants to deport undocumented migrants and legal migrants who commit crimes has just been elected to the Andalusian Parliament. “Our relationship living here together is not bad,” says Rabha Kharifi, a 51-year-old Moroccan woman who has spent 15 years in Spain and the last six in El Ejido. But locals still remember what happened in February 2000 when, in retaliation for the murder of three people by North African migrants, hundreds of residents decided to take justice into their own hands and attacked the migrant community.
In Balanegra, a municipality on the outskirts where just 3,000 people live, Vox received 30% of the vote. A shopkeeper from the area says he voted for the PSOE but says the area is “very right wing.” “You can tell by how they treat you,” he explains, adding that many of the farmers have double standards. “They are against immigration but at the same time they need the manual labor of Moroccans and sub-Saharan Africans for their crops.”
A group of migrants in Albuñol (Granada), one of Vox's strongholds. FERMÍN RODRÍGUEZ
https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/12/04/in ... 65426.html