Europe needs to fight an “Islamist invasion”, “climatic terrorism” and “woke ideology”, said the leader of Vox, Spain’s fastest-growing political party, at a Patriots for Europe rally this week.

The “enthusiastic reception” for Santiago Abascal from his supporters “reflects a national trend” that Vox is “on the march”, said The Times .

Who are Vox?

Vox – Latin for voice – is Spain’s party of the populist-nationalist right. It “initially grew” out of “alarm that Catalonia’s drive for independence would break up Spain”, said The Economist and “as that threat has receded”, it has turned to illegal immigration and “waging a culture war against feminism, trans and animal rights”.

It’s currently the third-largest party in the nation’s parliament: at the last general election, in 2023, it

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