Spain: Unprecedented political rise in nationalism is taking place due to immigration
VoiceOfEurope.com
21 February 2019
While hundreds of immigrants arrive every single day to Spain, the polls reflect nationalism everyday is taking a greater relevance in its politics.
Only in the first half of January more than 2900 immigrants arrived to the Spanish coasts and more than 65.000 did it the last year, this number is even greater than the sum of immigrants arrived to Spain in the three previous years and a 289 per cent more than in the year 2016.
This is paradigmatic with the situation on Spain, where despite immigrants represent only a 12,75 per cent of the population, they are overrepresented in many crime statistics, making, for example, the 38,3 per cent of those responsibles for gender violence related deaths. It´s important to mention the statistics many times hide the actual number of crimes committed by people with foreign origin by counting those with Spanish nationality as Spanish.
This situation has produced the rise on the nationalism, reflected on the surveys mainly with the rise of Vox (a young conservative and nationalist party), which proposes laws such as deporting all illegal immigrants and the legal ones who have committed some crime or the closing of mosques that promote a fundamentalist Islam.
At the beginning of summer of 2018 this political party didn´t arrive to the 2 per cent of expected votes on the next Spanish elections, now the party accountsnts for an 11,2 percent of them. Vox is expected to continue growing while the rest of main political parties keep loosing voters.
