![]() The success stories of Ciudadanos (Citizens) (Cs), Podemos (We Can), and Vox in the last seven years are good examples of the emergence of new parties after the Great Recession in Europe. In this research, we describe the contexts which facilitated the irruptions of these new parties, analyze their impact on the Spanish party system, and study their current voters’ profiles. Finally, driven by the same secession process and thanks to the removal from the office of PP’s Prime Minister after a motion of no confidence, the support for the populist radical right Vox also experienced a boost, winning 15 percent of the seats in Parliament in the general elections of November 2019. In the same contest, the liberal center party Ciudadanos (Citizens) became the fourth political force boosted, among other reasons, by notorious corruption scandals involving high-rank PP’s officials and the process of secession in Catalonia. ![]() This left-wing populist party managed to grow rapidly among the dissatisfied voters, reaching the third electoral position in the 2015 general elections. At first, as a result of the economic and political representation crises, Podemos (We Can) emerged at the 2014 European Parliament elections. The traditional Spanish imperfect bipartisanship and the alternation in power that emerged in the early 80s between the center-left PSOE and the conservative PP have shifted towards a multiparty system after the emergence of three new parties. 2Department of Political Science and International Relations, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.1European and International Studies, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom.The EFJ has submitted an alert to the Council fo Europe warning about the risks of normalising this kind of acts by European political parties.José Rama 1,2*, Guillermo Cordero 2 and Piotr Zagórski 2 These media are Público, Eldiario.es, La Marea, El Plural, Todo es mentira (Cuatro), El Español, El Mundo (salvo Álvaro Carvajal y Javier Negre), El País (en términos generales, luego ya iremos viendo), El intermedio (Wyoming), Infolibre, Revista Contexto CTXT. In this internal note, the party’s communication team advised its political leaders not to talk to 11 media outlets: “They are not, even if treated as such, media or journalists, but activists who will only speak badly about us, because we are their enemy”. A country that is considered a democracy cannot allow this restrictions on free media, whether or not we share the editorial line”, said the EFJ Vice-President and head of FSC-CCOO, Marta Barcenillaįew weeks ago, a WhatsApp message was leaked to the press. “It is essential that the Council of Europe take action on the matter and require the Spanish State to defend press freedom. We remind you that it is a discretionary act of the party”. In an email, the party’s communication team wrote to the media outlet: “We inform you that your request for accreditation to cover the election night at our headquarters has not been accepted. In addition, VOX has banned Eldiario.es from entering the place where the media will monitor the results of the party on election night, a situation that already occurred in the previous general elections, on 28 April 2019. In a statement, they were informed that “from this moment on, it will not grant accreditations for any journalist linked to PRISA or for access to its headquarters or for any other event that the political party organises in private spaces”. Right before the general election of Sunday November 10, VOX has denied the accreditation of Grupo Prisa media outlets – some of the most followed media in the country. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins its Spanish affiliates Federacion de Servicios a la Ciudadania de CC.OO (FSC-CC.OO), Federacion de Asociaciones de la Prensa Espanola (FAPE) and Federation de Sindicatos de Periodistas (FeSP) in condemning this new attack on freedom of expression and in recalling the Article 20 of the Spanish Constitution, which guarantees the freedom of expression. Spanish political party VOX has denied the accreditation to several media outlets, ahead of the general election of 10 November. ![]()
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