ABSTRACT
This essay presents a sociological analysis of the emergence of the Spanish political formation of the ultra-right Vox. We study the central structure of the political discourse of this formation, as well as the main aspects of the political, ideological and demographic profile of the Spanish people related to their approaches. The discourse has been analysed through its founding manifesto and the electoral programme for the 2019 elections. Thus, the political, ideological and demographic profile of the people related to their approaches have been studied in a quantitative way, through the data offered by the barometer of the Centre for Sociological Research (January 2019). The articulated conceptual elaboration of both approaches allows us to discuss, on the one hand, the links of Vox’s proposals with the forms of post-colonial social domination in Spain and, on the other hand, the specificity of its links with the Spanish Francoist tradition and/or with the current conservative European “populisms”. Our hypothesis is that the conceptual key to define if Vox is mainly (a) a Spanish variant of a more general European phenomenon of conservative rejection of the status quo, or (b) represents fundamentally the emergence of a new space of re-articulation of the historic Francoist right, is given by the existence or not of a willingness to alter the order and social pacts made by the neoliberal EU.
