إسبانيا: نشاط ملحوظ لحزب يميني مناهض للمهاجرين

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

تشهد الآونة الحالية نشاطًا ملحوظًا لحزب "منبر كتالونيا" اليميني المتطرف، الذي أسسه مناصرو "فرانسيسكو فرانكو" منذ تسع سنوات، واستطاع أن يحقق مكاسب متزايدة في الانتخابات المحلية؛ حيث أظهرت المؤشرات توقع زيادة ممثلي الحزب بالمجالس المحلية عبر إقليم "كتالونيا" من 17 ممثلًا إلى 100 عضو.

ويتبنى الحزب سياسة مناهضة للمهاجرين وتحميل الأجانب - الذين يمثلون 12% من السكان- مسؤولية انتشار الجريمة، والتأثير على نقص الوظائف في ظل وصول البطالة إلى 20%.

وقد أكد "روبرتو هيرناندو" في تصريحاته لشبكة "سكوتس مان" أنه يجب عدم السماح لمزيد من المهاجرين بالقدوم للبلد، وخاصةً المسلمين الذين يريدون فرض ثقافتهم على الآخرين "مؤكدًا علاقة حزبه الوطيدة بالأحزاب اليمينية في مختلف البلدان الأوروبية. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Far-right Catalans making waves across crisis-hit Spain

T'S a blunt campaign message - a video shows three attractive young women in miniskirts skipping with a rope in the Spanish city of Igualada, to the accompaniment of a traditional Catalan folk song. Suddenly, the image changes to "Igualada 2015" and shows three women dressed in burkas skipping to the rhythm of an Arab song.

"You can avoid this nightmare becoming reality. In Igualada, vote Plataforma per Catalunya," the video concludes.

Plataforma per Catalunya is a far-right party created nine years ago by former supporters of General Francisco Franco in the north-easstern industrial province of Sunday's regional elections in Spain.

Last year the party gained almost 3 per cent of the vote in the regional elections and now expects to increase its local vote five-fold, going from 17 to more than 100 council members across Catalonia and possibly winning control of some cities.

Plataforma per Catalunya is riding a growing wave of anti-immigration sentiment, where many blame foreigners - 12 per cent of the Spanish population - for rising crime and a lack of jobs, in a country with 20 per cent official unemployment.

"We didn't have much money so I did this video to create an impact, but I never imagined the huge reaction it would provoke," Roberto Hernando, the party's number two candidate and director of the video, told The Scotsman yesterday.

"We keep getting e-mails and letters from people across Spain begging us to expand nationally.

"With this crisis we shouldn't allow more immigrants into the country, especially Muslims who want to impose their culture upon others."

Along with many people from the poorer South American countries, Spain has seen an influx of immigrants from north African countries such as Morocco.

Mr Hernando says his party is in close touch with other European extremists, including Austria's FPO led by Heinz-Christian Strache, Filip Dewinter from the Belgian Vlaams Belang party and the Italian Northern League, with the idea of forming a unified force in Europe in the future.

But he prefers not to comment on the Francoist past of his party's leader, Josep Anglada, a former disciple of fascist figure Blas Piñar, or the resignation of the party's former secretary-general in 2003 after accusing Mr Anglada of having links with neo-Nazi groups.

This past has not prevented the Plataforma per Catalunya from growing in Catalonia to the point that Spain's main opposition, the conservative Popular Party (PP), has adopted an anti-immigration platform in some cities to stave off its challenge.