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Political Scientist at @ForumMIDEM, @tudresden_de. PhD @EUI_EU. Comparative Politics, the Far Right, Migration, Memory Politics / Spain & Portugal #FirstGen
Jul 19, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
*Thread on Spain's election, climate & the far-right*
As 🇪🇸 faces a scorching heatwave, it's striking how climate policy is not a key theme of the campaign. This is even the more so when there are grounds to believe Vox may influence the mainstream right on the issue. (1/6) Image Vox not only downplays climate change but uses 'climate religion' as (yet another) tool to decry 'globalist elites'. And it does so w/ clear conspiratorial undertones: green policies are an elite tool to impoverish ppl, attack the countryside & 'create a new order' (sigh) (2/6)
Oct 12, 2021 12 tweets 3 min read
Thread 👇For those interested in the transnationationalization of the far right, VOX put together quite a show this weekend. Special guests to their popular fair #VIVA21 were Meloni (IT) and Ventura (PT), who held in-person speeches. Here’s what I found most interesting: (1) The combination of speakers (via video). On one hand, the usual interlocutors from HU and PL (Orbán & PiS). On the other, many Latin American conservatives (e.g. ex-presidents of Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Bolsonaro's son, the rising ‘stars’ J.A. Kast (CL) and Millei (AR), etc.)(2)