The far-right Vox party lost seats in Spain's elections on Sunday, staving off the prospect of a first hardline nationalist-backed government since General Francisco Franco's dictatorship and pointing to limitations in the European far-right's bid for the mainstream.
Polls had predicted a win for the centre-right People's Party with Vox as the likely kingmaker but they failed, leaving Catalan and Basque pro-independence parties holding the balance of power in a hung parliament.
That included trying to change the rules of abortion clinics to make women be shown 4D images of the babies they wanted to abort and hear their heartbeats. "The fight against LGBT rights, immigration and Catalan separatism didn't deliver the kind of returns Vox anticipated." The pitfalls of joining hands with the far-right were underscored for Germany's main opposition leader Friedrich Merz on Monday when hefrom comments suggesting he could work with the Alternative for Germany at a local level.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has also softened her stance on some social issues, for example reversing a promise to ban same-sex marriage.NO RETURN TO FRANCO
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