, Columnist
Spain Shows Europe’s Right Where It’s Gone Wrong
By indulging radicals, center-right parties may achieve little except a lowering of civilized norms and their own debasement.
Spanish voters pulled back from the far right.
Photographer: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg
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Ambiguous election results may have left Spain facing months of political uncertainty. But the vote delivered a clear message to the rest of Europe.
Ahead of last Sunday’s polls, Spain’s Vox party — sworn enemy of renewable energy, immigrants, gender equality, and sexual diversity — was savoring its newfound power, closing bike lanes and banning Pride flags from public buildings in the Spanish towns it runs together with the center-right People’s Party.