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Santiago Abascal

Santiago Abascal

Santiago Abascal (born 1976 in Bilbao) is a Spanish politician who has led Vox, a party reference works describe as far-right, since 2014.

Born
1976 (50 years), Bilbao
Party
Vox
Office
Member of the Congress of Deputies 2019–
Education
University of Deusto
Website
santiagoabascal.es
Political position

Far right · Where sources place the party (Vox)
Wikipedia: far-right political party (Vox)
Ideology: Spanish nationalism, national conservatism, right-wing populism

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He has sat in the Congress of Deputies for Madrid since 2019 and has presided over Patriots.eu since 2024. He is Vox's candidate for Prime Minister of Spain in the next general election.

Career

Abascal studied at the University of Deusto and joined the People's Party in 1994. He was a councillor in Llodio from 1999 to 2007, sat in the Basque Parliament in 2004–2005 and 2005–2009, and directed the Madrid Data Protection Agency from 2010 to 2012. He left the PP in 2013, helped found Vox, and has been its president since 2014. He has been a member of Congress since 2019.

Offices held
  1. Member of the Congress of Deputies 2019–
  2. Deputy of the Basque Parliament 2004–2005, 2005–2009

Source: Wikidata

Positions

Wikipedia describes Vox as a far-right party. Its platform, as Wikipedia summarises it, includes Spanish nationalism, opposition to immigration from Muslim-majority countries, strict immigration policy with legal immigration favouring Latin American countries, and scepticism toward climate change.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia

Photo: Vox España, CC0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

  1. Santiago Abascal 1%
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Prime Minister of Spain?

OutcomeLeft – RightAgeProbability
Alberto Núñez Feijóo80%
Pedro SánchezCentre-left5419%
Santiago AbascalFar right501%
Carlos Cuerpo46<1%
Isabel Díaz AyusoCentre-right47<1%
Óscar PuenteCentre-left57<1%
Yolanda DíazLeft55<1%
María Jesús MonteroCentre-left60<1%
Ernest Urtasun<1%
Aitor EstebanCentre-right64<1%
Miguel TelladoCentre-right52<1%
Ester MuñozCentre-right41<1%

All 16 outcomes

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