Spain’s Vox Party Surges with Quarter of Young Voters Supporting Far-Right Platform

Spain’s Vox par­ty is expe­ri­enc­ing unprece­dent­ed growth, with a quar­ter of vot­ers under 24 sup­port­ing the anti-immi­gra­tion par­ty, accord­ing to recent polling. On 24 Sep­tem­ber 2025, The Times report­ed that the Catholic nation­al­ist par­ty, led by San­ti­a­go Abas­cal, has reached his­toric highs, with polls sug­gest­ing it will win 16–18% of the nation­al vote, while draw­ing sup­port from young men frus­trat­ed with hous­ing costs and immi­gra­tion. The arti­cle begins:

The leader of Spain’s fastest grow­ing polit­i­cal par­ty harked back to the Mid­dle Ages at a recent ral­ly for the pop­ulist right. San­ti­a­go Abas­cal sin­gled out the Recon­quista, Spain’s cen­turies-long series of cam­paigns to recap­ture the coun­try from Mus­lim forces that end­ed in 1492. The con­ti­nent need­ed a new one, the Vox leader said, to fight an “Islamist inva­sion”, “cli­mat­ic ter­ror­ism” and “woke ide­ol­o­gy”. Thou­sands of his vot­ers roared approv­ing­ly and waved Span­ish flags. The enthu­si­as­tic recep­tion for Abas­cal, at the event staged for Patri­ots for Europe, the Euro­pean par­lia­men­t’s third-largest vot­ing bloc, reflects a nation­al trend: Vox is on the march.

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Key Points

• Vox sup­port among young men aged under 24 reach­es 36% accord­ing to state poll­ster CIS data.
• Vox has stolen over 800,000 vot­ers from the con­ser­v­a­tive Pop­u­lar Par­ty in the past year alone.
• Immi­gra­tion became the top pri­or­i­ty for Span­ish vot­ers in 2024, with 70% sup­port­ing the depor­ta­tion of ille­gal migrants.
• Vox praised vio­lent anti-migrant riots in the Mur­cia region while call­ing for the restora­tion of the Catholic state.

Spain’s VOX Growth Powers Global National Conservative Alliance Across Europe

Spain’s VOX par­ty serves as a cru­cial Euro­pean pil­lar of the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance, with leader San­ti­a­go Abas­cal strate­gi­cal­ly posi­tion­ing him­self at the cen­ter of transna­tion­al far-right coor­di­na­tion. Abas­cal joined promi­nent Euro­pean far-right fig­ures at CPAC Hun­gary 2023, where he expressed sol­i­dar­i­ty with Vik­tor Orbán’s vision of a Europe based on Chris­t­ian val­ues, nation­al iden­ti­ty, and cul­tur­al homo­gene­ity along­side lead­ers from Aus­tri­a’s FPÖ, France’s Nation­al Ral­ly, and the Czech Repub­lic. This par­tic­i­pa­tion demon­strates how the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance oper­ates as an ide­o­log­i­cal coali­tion that unites right-wing move­ments world­wide under shared prin­ci­ples of nation­al sov­er­eign­ty and oppo­si­tion to lib­er­al democ­ra­cy, with Spain’s VOX serv­ing as a key Mediter­ranean anchor point for the movement.

VOX’s inte­gra­tion into the glob­al alliance extends beyond sym­bol­ic par­tic­i­pa­tion to sys­tem­at­ic coor­di­na­tion of mes­sag­ing and strat­e­gy across mul­ti­ple CPAC venues. San­ti­a­go Abas­cal appeared as a sched­uled speak­er at CPAC Hun­gary 2022, demon­strat­ing the par­ty’s con­sis­tent role in the alliance’s major inter­na­tion­al gath­er­ings along­side Brazil­ian fig­ures like Eduar­do Bol­sonaro. The par­ty’s sus­tained involve­ment in these transna­tion­al net­works reveals how nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive move­ments coor­di­nate mes­sag­ing on shared themes, includ­ing tra­di­tion­al fam­i­ly val­ues, anti-immi­gra­tion poli­cies, and resis­tance to supra­na­tion­al gov­er­nance struc­tures. VOX con­tributes explic­it­ly to the alliance’s Mediter­ranean and Ibero-Amer­i­can out­reach strate­gies, extend­ing the move­men­t’s influ­ence beyond its North­ern Euro­pean origins.

The strate­gic impor­tance of VOX with­in the glob­al nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive alliance reflects both Spain’s geo­graph­i­cal posi­tion as a gate­way between Europe and Latin Amer­i­ca and the par­ty’s suc­cess­ful nor­mal­iza­tion of far-right pol­i­tics with­in estab­lished demo­c­ra­t­ic insti­tu­tions. As CPAC con­fer­ences have tak­en on a greater role in the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance, VOX’s par­tic­i­pa­tion pro­vides the move­ment with cru­cial South­ern Euro­pean legit­i­ma­cy while advanc­ing shared objec­tives of chal­leng­ing EU inte­gra­tion, pro­mot­ing author­i­tar­i­an gov­er­nance mod­els, and coor­di­nat­ing resis­tance to lib­er­al demo­c­ra­t­ic norms across mul­ti­ple con­ti­nents through plat­forms that facil­i­tate ongo­ing ide­o­log­i­cal align­ment and strate­gic coordination.

Exter­nal References:

• Spain’s Vox Par­ty Is the Cen­ter of the Glob­al Far Right
• Spain elec­tion: Far-right Vox par­ty on the brink of shar­ing power
• How Spain’s vot­ers and polit­i­cal sys­tems have kept the far right out of pow­er – for now

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